Quotes About Self

People change, but there really are limits. One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life. We are children for a very long time.

Everyone has a watched life. Everyone is both the observer and the observed.

I do a lot of laughing at my own self in life, so I think I come at things with a pretty easygoing view.

You create your own life and your work. Give us your best.

...for me there is too little of life to spend most of it forcing myself into detachment from it.

The most self-destructive thought that any person can have is thinking that he or she is not in total control of his or her life. That's when, 'Why me?' becomes a theme song.

Time is the great doctor of your life. You have to respect the doctor. The devouring self is the patient. Listen to the doctor.

Misery is not given by anyone or anything in life. It is your own mind which makes you miserable or happy and uplifted.

You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.

Your most important asset is the conscious control of your own life.

We need do no more than repeat: only under communism does the individual become himself and lead his own life.

You have to accept gifts occasionally, because there are some things you can't give yourself

The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe.

Good things might happen in your life or bad things might happen, sometimes terrible things, but no matter what happens, your soul is your own. And no one and nothing can stop you.

Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.

Your life only gets better when you get better.

Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our own compassionate thoughts.

As I look back on my life, I see it as one long obstacle course with myself as the main obstacle.

Life's all about the revolution, isn't it? The one inside, I mean. You can't change history. You can't change the world. All you can ever change is yourself.

Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.

Nobody understands your life, but you.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture.

That's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.