Quotes About Self

I don't know what the hell I was doing, all right?! I don't recognize myself. I don't know who I am anymore. And it's all fun and games until someone loses an I.

That's all right, Neal thought. Every one of us is at least two people.

You go in there to be Irish, Danny thinks, as if you're not already, as if you can get away from it anywhere anyway.

he also thinks it's true of most people, that the best part of ourselves is trapped inside the worst part of ourselves and just can't manage to get out.

I don't recognize myself. I don't know who I am anymore." And it's all fun and games until someone loses an I.

In the contemplation of nudes, we congratulate ourselves upon the beauty of which human beings are capable. They reassure us about ourselves, about Being. We are a little lower than the angels, true, but notice that we can get along without that suspect radiance, equal parts paint and literature, on which the angels lean so heavily. The human body is, or can be, a sufficiency.

You must change the people you are speaking to so that you appear, to yourself, to be still alive.

The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted.

The project of recovering myself as subject—that is, of recovering my freedom from its entrapment by the Other—necessarily puts me in conflict with the Other.

There are no Territories to light out for, not in this century. It was no longer easy to become the new you. New or old, you were already you.

I'm not responsible for what other people think, only for what I am.

The Thin Man I indulge myself In rich refusals. Nothing suffices. I hone myself to This edge. Asleep, I Am a horizon.

What good is "Loving thy neighbor as thyself" if you don't Love thyself?

It doesn't matter who you are, or where you come from, or how much money you've got in your pocket. You have your own destiny and your own life ahead of you.

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings.

Dressing is a way of life.

Don't wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.

All magic is about transformation... the performance magician is telling you that you are the magician in your own life. You are the agent of transformation, your own transformation.

There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

When you step further into the story you came to live, not only does the mythic territory open, but the deep self moves and the world of imagination and meaning comes towards you.

Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

I am the me I choose to be.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.