Quotes About Self

Nobody wants to be themselves. That's why there's TV. So you know what to want and who to be.

I'm not really sure what I am at all anymore. We're not just sashes and states, Nicole said on a sigh. Or gender, Petra murmured. Or bodies. I'm sort of everything all at once, Nicole whispered. And then they were silent, lost to dreaming.

I change the world and the world changes me

Dreams are the shadow self let loose.

All I mean is that I left too much of me unfinished because I wasted too much time."--

Kamu harus menjadi pribadi yang kamu inginkan, bukan pribadi yang diinginkan orang lain.

Though she never moved, she was more alive than I. In the light of her beauty and strength, I realized what I had lost. Because of fear, I had forfeited strength, life, and beauty. I had lost a sense of my true self, and with that loss so much of what God wanted for me was yet unrealized.

Later came the hard knowledge that no one can save you from yourself.

And how many episodes of being "not yourself" do you get before people figure out this is who you really are? I

it, Shep does his ordering for the department and for himself all from the same manufacturer.

at the end of the day, the people left behind matter as much as the ones who are missing. We mourn the ones we've lost, but we agonize over the pieces of ourselves they took with them. The identities we'll never have again. The emotions we're certain we'll never feel again. The sense of our own selves, becoming undone and disappearing just as completely and suddenly as those who vanished.

I don't know who I am," I say. "No one does. Everyone spends their lives figuring that out, even people who've never been kidnapped.

And what is a marriage except adding A to B and hoping it equals an amount greater than the sum of its parts? Briefly, the promise of a new life almost made the math work. Except A was still A, and B was still B. We could create a new life, but we couldn't stop being ourselves.

As an advocate of the Family Systems model, I would say that's because you have acknowledged the piece of yourself that you were uncomfortable with, the Exile, resulting in your true Self being once more centered and in control.

There's only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.

In a laissez-faire society, there could exist no public institution with the power to forcefully protect people from themselves. From other people (criminals), yes. From one's own self, no.

I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture.

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

Society may predict, but only I can determine my destiny.

You define beauty for yourself, society doesn't define your beauty. Your spirit and your faith defines your beauty.

We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves.

In the sleeping state, instead, one is much more oneself, even if society never ceases to intervene.