Quotes About Self

He who trades his identity for money will one day wind up with neither.

My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.

The days are stacked against what we think we are.

I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.

People don't change that much. Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in. That is hard enough (Buckingham and Coffman 1999).

Los libros, las ideas y los consejos prudentes son importantes, pero el lugar en el que fundamentalmente encontramos a Dios es en lo que nosotros mismos experimentamos.

The quickest way to experiencing the peace inside, is to learn to recognize when I am not at peace.

The darkness and myself. Everything else was gone. And the little that was left of me was going, faster and faster.

He was his own victim, his own slave. He had made personality a profession, created a career out of selling himself. And he could not stray far, or for long, from his self-made self.

But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?

Before all else, each of us must take a fundamental risk to be true to ourselves.

Like the utensils that are too long to get food and return it to our own mouths—we got married because we couldn't meet our own needs. We needed a partner to serve us and to fulfill us.

my life is enough to depress the entire universe but I'm the only one living it

To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution.

Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave or lose. To the question of your life, You are the only answer. To the problems of your life, You are the only solution.

Maybe I just need to be able to feel the significance of my own existence.

Everyone had their own internal life and their own soul, and they were entitled to make their own choices.

I couldn't be anything. I could barely manage to hold out my shape in the world.

Na própria precisão com que outras passagens lembradas se oferecem, de entre impressões confusas, talvez se agite a maligna astúcia da porção escura de nós mesmos, que tenta incmpreensivelmente enganar-nos, ou, pelo menos, retardar, que prescutemos qualquer verdade.

O senhor sabe o que o silêncio é? É a gente mesmo, demais.

Vossignoria sa cosa è il silenzio? Siamo noi stessi, in eccesso.

No one sees me changing, but who sees me? I am my own hiding place.

Denn du bist du Und kannst dir selber nicht entflien. Leg dich in deine Hände.

Denn du bist du Und kannst dir selber nicht entfliehn. Leg dich in deine Hände.