Quotes About Self

When it comes to quitting, the most painful thing to quit is who you are.

Je comprends ce désir de couvrir de cadeaux un être qu'on aime pour manifester l'appartenance (Proust, La prisonnière). Tout en sachant que cela ne sert pas à vous l'attacher, puisqu'il en est seulement fier (de susciter autant d'amour), que cela renforce son narcissisme, lequel joue contre celui qui donne. Ce dernier n'a pas assez de narcissisme. Enfin, moi je l'aime de tout mon vide.

Sous mes pas s'ouvre l'énormité du gouffre de l'inconnu : la petite pièce que j'ai dû être dans son existence

Vu Trop belle pour toi, rien n'est semblable à mon histoire et tout l'est. En sortant, je sais qu'il s'agit de moi, de la vie ordinaire, des rapports contradictoires entre les hommes et les femmes.

She has no defined self, but "selves" who pass from one book to another.

Avec mon mari, autrefois, je me sentais une fille du peuple, avec lui j'étais une bourge.

Il avait appris la condition essentielle pour ne pas reproduire la misère des parents : ne pas s'oublier dans une femme.

Awareness of the other should be balanced by awareness of the self.

Many spiritual disciplines, especially those oriented toward ascendance, advise us to give up the self, to surrender all to a master, guru, or a particular concept of God. While it is important to give up attachments to the lower egos, what is really called for is to become one with the divine. There is no we without an I. To become one with the divine is not to abandon the Self (as archetype of wholeness) but to realize that divine consciousness of who that Self really is.

Find peace with yourself by accepting not only what you are, but what you are never going to be.

Within you I lose myself. Without you I find myself wanting to become lost again.

I don't like fame, I prefer to have no profile. But this is not possible for me. This is what I do, so I just have to find a way of being comfortable with it.

I would like to reiterate that I don't want any profiles of me. I am not newsworthy.

My body became aligned with my identity, and it was profound.

Getting to know where we come from is a really profound way of getting to look at who we are.

I had never really thought of myself as a baby person, but it's just a really profound connection.

It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves.

We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.

A lot of MTV's programming is hip-hop based, and the messages are usually all about bling bling. A lot of hip-hop artists sing about stuff that's more important, but they seldom get heard. The ones who get heard are the ones saying, 'Think about yourself. Make your money. It's all you. Everybody have a good time and party.'

I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am.

Honestly, I always think it's cool when artists name their first album after themselves. It's confident it just means like this is me, this is my project, here you go.

I know movies are a function of our dream world. And when you project yourself on screen, it's easier to project yourself into what you were, not what you are.

I think I'm always a little bit under construction. I'm a project that I'm trying to improve upon.

Of course it would depend on the project, but I don't think I could ever separate myself from my aesthetic.