Quotes About Self

The mind is a funny place. I do not even trust my own.

The price of being an Amberite, I suppose, is that you cannot even trust yourself.

Suffering is a form of egoism. I speak only of myself. I am not talking about her, saying what she was, making an overwhelming portrait (like the one Gide made of Madeleine). (Yet: everything is true: the sweetness, the energy, the nobility, the kindness.)

Despite the difficulties of my story, despite discomforts, doubts, despairs, despite impulses to be done with it, I unceasingly affirm love, within myself, as a value.

The portrait-photograph is a closed field of forces. Four image-repertoires intersect here, oppose and distort each other. In front of the lens, I am at the same time: the one I think I am, the one I want others to think I am, the one the photographer thinks I am, and the one he makes use of to exhibit his art.

Despite the difficulties of my story, despite discomforts, doubts, despairs, despite impulses to be done with it, I unceasingly affirm love, within myself, as a value. Though I listen to all the arguments which the most divergent systems employ to demystify, to limit, to erase, in short, to depreciate love, I persist, I know, I know, but all the same...

mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.

Where there is a wound, there is a subject.

I take a role: *I am the one who is going to cry; and I play this role for myself *and it makes me cry* I am my own theater.

Rockefeller molded his house for his own use, not to awe strangers.

6 He also saw his father's vanity, noting how after one good deed he was "simply too pleased with himself.

If the universe doesn't care about us and if we're an accident in a remote corner of the universe, in some sense it makes us more precious. The meaning in our lives is provided by us; we provide our own meaning.

My sex is me as my mind is me, and nobody will make me feel shame about it.

between what you thought you wanted and what you wanted? Why did people have to be such a danger to themselves? She had had reasons for her choices. Good

The essence of leadership is not giving things or even providing visions. It is offering oneself and one's spirit.

Don't let ego get in the way of a good decision." "You just trashed every general in our nation's history.

A dream from the past, unconnected with reality, but absolutely defining the identity of the person involved.

She changed herself, by deciding it.

dream from the past, unconnected with reality, but absolutely defining the identity of the person involved.

Besides, how could I trust them, when I couldn't even trust myself?

he bajado mis expectativas de mí mismo y otros, a la vez que he elevado mis expectativas de Dios y su gracia». —

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is an illusion.— BRENNAN MANNING

The human brain, instinctively, and unfailingly translates everything into terms of How does that affect ME? Start every appropriate sentence with you.

the house in horror is often the image of the body, a metaphor for the different aspects of the self, the self with other people and the self alone. the body is generally under attack in horror, and the bedroom - the place for sex, sleeping, and dreaming - is the pace of greatest vulnerability.