Quotes About Self

To be a human being is to be a continual work of art.

In literature, as in love, one can only speak for himself.

Sometimes it's very difficult to keep momentum when it's you that you are following. - Andrew Lloyd Webber

So you would kill Old Ireland?" Anna Livia said. "You would kill yourself, for without Old Ireland, you wouldn't be.

If you doubt how far our civilization has turned into a helpless self domesticated livestock, just look at the world around you

I was loved, to be certain, but loved by people who didn't know how to love themselves.

I am only half myself. the other side's a dark idea I like to believe in.

I always felt so different - I felt I was in the wrong shell.

Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.

You are confined only by the walls you build yourself...

Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God.

don't say "pity" again,' I warned. 'I blame myself for who I am and where I am, and that includes friends and family.' He laughed. 'Maybe you are too hard on yourself. You can't underestimate the power of coincidence and fate. They have a lot to do with who and what you are. Look at us. If I hadn't been standing in that spot in the supermarket and you weren't distracted, we might never have met.

The man himself.

MEMORY IS A KIND of friendship, a friendship with the more necessary parts of oneself. How often do we reach for the past's genial knowledge to meet the unknowables of the present, asking once again that the anterior world might blossom into life and colour the current day? In this at least I cannot be alone.

We couldn't complete the world or ourselves. We could only live, and look for small graces, and learn to accept the munificence of change.

Though it's with you at every moment, it's always something of a surprise to discover that you can be at once alive and alone.

Even if it's deep unhappiness, it's your unhappiness.

Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.

We enter the world as a minute part of the life we are given, and from then on we are ever paying off debts. To ourselves. For ourselves. In order for the final reckoning to tally.

In each of us lies a creditor and a debtor at once and the art is for the reckoning to tally inside us. We enter the world as a minute part of the life we are given, and from then on we are ever paying off debts. To ourselves. For ourselves. In order for the final reckoning to tally.' 'Is

Unbridled altruism is a huge vice of mine,' he explained. 'I simply have to do good. I am a sensible dwarf, however, and know that I'm unable to do everyone good. Were I to attempt to be good to everyone, to the entire world and to all the creatures living in it, it would be a drop of fresh water in the salt sea. In other words, a wasted effort. Thus, I decided to do specific good; good which would not go to waste. I'm good to myself and my immediate circle.

But I've become convinced that the witcher's profession is worthy of respect. You protect us not only from the evil lurking in the darkness, but also from that which lies within ourselves. It's a shame there are so few of you.

You protect us not only from the evil lurking in the darkness, but also from that which lies within ourselves. It's a shame there are so few of you.

Die Leute [...] denken sich gern Ungeheuer und Ungeheuerlichkeiten aus. Sie selbst kommen sich dann weniger ungeheuerlich vor.