Quotes About Self

Art, like Nebraska, is a journey into thin air, a walk into whiteness, where you lose everything but yourself.

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

Sometimes it takes a lot of courage to be who you are.

Lo que pase depende exclusivamente de ti. Eres tú quien tiene la capacidad de decidir qué quieres cambiar de tu vida

The old adage "Charity begins at home" means that we need to have a loving, growing image of ourselves.

We can recognize the ego as that part of ourself that lives in our historical past, our story, rather than in the present moment.

Knowledge of God and knowlegde of self give birth to humility.

War within ourselves is always a prelude to war outside ourselves. All war starts within our own hearts. When our egos are inflated or our desires insatiable, we go to war with the other for the sad joy of maintaining our one-dimensional worlds.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth... is potentially to have everything...

More than one personality was created in the hope of being the daughter Nancy could consistently love. More than one new personality was created in response to Mother's unexpected fury.

she was a little frightened that first afternoon. There seemed such a huge expanse of water and sky, and so little of herself.

The bitter paradox is that the borderline is never needy enough and the narcissist is never narcissistic enough for each to get their "real" needs met.

Borderlines, who are inclined towards feeling left out and undeserving, tend to identify with the withdrawal. Because of their susceptibility to the projections of others, borderlines do not recognize withdrawal as a maladaptive process. The identification is usually with a split-off aspect of the self that is shrouded in confusion.

Tyra's always standing up for herself and her "race" over perceived slights. For example, she'll say, "You just pushed me because I'm black!" No, I pushed you because the train was coming right at you, you bulimic twit.

One of the more sophisticated dramas that consciousness produces is "me" trying to step out of "my story," the character trying to free itself from itself. This is like a mirage trying to eliminate a mirage, or a phantom trying to pull itself up by its own imaginary bootstraps, or a dog chasing its own tail.

Nobody else can see us, because we have no objective existence whatsoever, and we cannot see anybody else because they have none.

Self is that which dies... Spirit is that which lives... forever.

To be another person than the one you were before means more than I understand. But

In the past, changing the self and changing the world were often regarded as separate endeavors and viewed in either-or terms. But in the story of the Great Turning, they are recognized as mutually reinforcing and essential to one another.

There is this business of the narcissism of love, the fourth-dimensional curve that takes you out into the other who is the whole world, which is really a twist back into yourself, only a different self.

And if I fight, then for what?" "For nothing easy or sweet, and I told you that last year and the year before that. For your own challenge, for your own mistakes and the punishment for them, for your own definition of love and of sanity - a good strong self with which to begin to live.

You don't get to pick who you are in this life, but you can decide what you become.

I'm not myself.' '...You can never say that. You're just a piece of yourself right now that you don't like.