Quotes About Self

Devotion begins at home, inside your own awareness.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

I'm a gun owner; I'm a hunter, but you know what? I went through background checks myself in order to get it.

Sometimes I see myself as a locked box - very detached from myself and others. But I feel lucky, because I am the owner of my time, and you cannot buy time.

I think I finally have really taken ownership of myself and me as a gymnast.

Nobody owns me or my music.

My body parts are all I have left now that are only mine - the world owns everything else.

I wanted to express myself more fully through writing and directing. It just feels like a package deal. Anytime you create anything, you try to exert mastery over your world.

It's very hard for me to be myself when I'm not in shoulder pads.

I like acting for myself as a director. I act and I know that I'll have a chance to have some say in what gets used and that I'll be able to give myself enough takes and be on the same page as myself about how the scene should play.

I get to do what I want. And I get paid millions of dollars to do it.

Who is most deserving of all of the money that I, Zlatan, am paid? The answer is Zlatan.

Our pain is a part of who we authentically are.

I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.

Seeing myself as female every time I look in the mirror is painful in a way I will never be able to describe.

I am not an artist. I am not a painter.

The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimize themselves in favor of the ideal... But I just can't. You see, my paintings are not cool.

The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've turned to paintings, to art. I look to the imagery of art to help me understand something about my own place in the world.

The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.

I have seen myself pale and I don't look like myself.

I use Manic Panic to dye my hair. Sometimes I do it myself.

The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself.

Home is where my house pants live. And they're hideous.