Quotes About Self

We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don't matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.

Doc has been my name all my life, and John is my middle name. I'm proud of all my names - Malcolm John Michael Creaux Rebennack. I'm proud of them names.

I don't believe in God. I believe gods and devils are within us. It's our own battle. Our life's battle is to appeal to the gods within us, and to fight the devils within us.

Everyone has the right to tell the truth about her own life.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

People may not like what you do, people may not like how you do it, but these people are not living your life. You are!

For many people a job is more than an income - it's an important part of who we are. So a career transition of any sort is one of the most unsettling experiences you can face in your life.

Live life as if it were created just for you.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.

You're responsible for yourself as an actress, you know that your personal growth goes through that alchemy, and you give as much importance to your life as you do to your acting.

You look how you look

You are the Michelangelo of your own life. The David you are sculpting is you.

You can live in a house, but your real home is inside you.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.

Doing what you want to do is life.

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

My entire life has been a lie.

For most of my life, I've felt that there must be more to our existence than meets the eye. This is who I am, and you can't expect me to be someone I'm not.

Collision with the Infinite: A Life Beyond the Personal Self

The only person who is truly holding you back is you. No more excuses. It's time to change. It's time to live life at a new level.

Everything is a piece of me, a moment of my life.