Quotes About Self

You're the main character of your life," Jacie said. "You're too important to die. That's how everybody feels.

The Undertaker frowned again. Her eyes flashed through scenes too quickly. for May to make out. "Your future profile is very confusing. I see great fear. You fear too many things. You even fear yourself. Why?" May stared blankly. "Oh yes. You don't believe in your heart. You doubt yourself. It's a great failing." The Undertaker gazed at her solemnly. " but there's also great courage.

Your future profile is very confusing. I see great fear. You fear too many things. You even fear yourself. Why?" May stared at her blankly. "Oh, yes. You don't believe in your heart. You doubt yourself. It's a great failing." The Undertake gazed at her solemnly. "But there's also great courage.

I'm not myself', she offered guiltily. ... He smiled. 'You can never say that. You're just a piece of yourself right now that you don't like.

I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.

The trouble with running is wherever you run to, there you are.

This is the essence of emergence: tiny units of matter operating collectively to become something much more than themselves, to enable the cosmos to know itself.

I've discovered that in order to make big changes in the world, we have to begin at home -- within ourselves

Remember, you can't change anybody else. But you can write your own story differently.

It was painful to contemplate the distance between the future of accomplishment I'd imagined for myself twenty years earlier...it was painful to understand that the cushion of exceptionality invoked by the drug had made me oblivious to my inertia. And it was painful to have to define myself again, at an age when most people are happy in their own skins.

lives under your skin. It's not going away. It's part of you and will be part of you every moment until you die. What you've been working on, since the first time I met you, is learning to live with that.

But I want you to understand that there can't be information about you—that is true—that you don't already know. Your life takes place in your skin. No one else knows a goddamn thing,

Then he bites an O in half and wills himself to remember nothing, think nothing, until all that exists is a flatness - a flatness he now identifies as himself.

I know it sounds silly, but I'm proud of myself. I guess for living a brave life.

shadow represents either the blocking out of light or the other half of a person. When a character loses their shadow, they've lost a part of themselves and have to search to get it back.

they're contained in their bodies, in the biographical facts of their lives.

You change yourself in this world (indeed, if it comes from outside yourself it can be taken away). What other people --or other entities-- can do is inspire you; they can plant seeds of inspiration. If the soil isn't receptive, the seed dies, the idea is lost, as there was no place for inspiration to take hold.

I am. I think. I will. ... What must I say besides? These are the words. This is the answer.

A person doesn't ask permission to fall in love; not even of themselves.

But you are not

I cannot tell if the day; is ending, or the world, or if; the secret of secrets is inside me again.

name, thereby

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

My different personalities leave me in peace now.