Quotes About Self

Then take your fate upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking for that reward which might come from without. For the creator must be a world for himself, and find everything within himself, and in Nature to which he has attached himself.

Your inmost happening is worth your whole love, that is what you must somehow work at, and not lose too much time and too much courage in explaining

You have to live within yourself and think of all of life, all of its millions of possibilities, openings, and futures in relation to which there exists nothing that is past or has been lost. (Letters on Life)

There is no force in the world but love, and when you carry it within you, if you simply have it, even if you remain baffled as to how to use it, it will work its radiant effects and help you out of and beyond yourself: one must never lose this belief, one must simply (and if it were nothing else) endure in it! (Letters on Life)

lo que llamamos destino no entra en nosotros desde el exterior, sino que emerge de nosotros.

Always trust yourself. If it turns out you are wrong, then that natural course of your inner life will lead you to other insights.

For the creator must be a world for himself and find everything in himself and in Nature to whom he has attached himself.

if he demolished pillars, it was when he burst from the world of your body into the narrower world.

We create the race by creating ourselves and then to our great astonishment we will have created something far more important: We will have created a culture. Why waste time creating a conscience for something that doesn't exist? For, you see, blood and skin do not think!

I yam what I yam!

Without light I am not only invisible, but formless as well; and to be unaware of one's form is to live a death.

If only all the contradictory voices shouting inside my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn't care as long as they sang without dissonance; yes, and avoided uncertain extremes of the scale.

I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

Identity! My God! Who has any identity anymore anyway?

Hell, he never had any doubts about his humanity -- that was left to his free offspring.

Play the game, but don't believe in it—that much you owe yourself.

You're nobody, son. You don't exist—can't you see that?

That which we do is what we are. That which we remember is, more often than not, that which we would like to have been; or that which we hope to be. Thus our memory and our identity are ever at odds; our history ever a tall tale told by inattentive idealists.

HARRY: I tell you, it is not me you are looking at, Not me you are grinning at, not me your confidential looks Incriminate, but that other person, if person, You thought I was: let your necrophily Feed upon that carcase.… T. S. Eliot, Family Reunion

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.