Quotes About Self

I was terrified to go solo. It's lonely doing it by myself. But I wanted to challenge myself.

The truth is you only have yourself to offer. And when you come to that realization, it's terrifying, because you think it's probably not enough.

I become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with their own projections.

Identity has been such an explosive territory for me... so hard, so painful at times.

Everybody feels good in their skin for about a minute a day, and the rest of the day, you're just trying to navigate your way through the sea of terror.

I had to test a new terror in myself.

I have to keep testing myself.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

One does what one is; one becomes what one does.

An impractical man--which he not only seems to be, but really is--will always be unreliable and unpredictable in his dealings with others. He will engage in actions that mean something else to him than to others, but he is at peace with himself about everything as long as he can make it all come together in a fine idea.

The thought is not something that observes an inner event, but, rather it is this inner event itself. We do not reflect on something, but, rather, something thinks itself in us.

We are Kurita. Across the stars, what we appear to be, we are. Appearances are all-important. That is something you seem unwilling or unable to learn.

deactivating this area (right parietal lobe) of the brain that controls self, time and space enhances virtues such as forgiveness, and allows us to take a "higher" view of life.

Consciousness is the awareness of awareness.

Sometimes just when I say hello the right way, I'm like, 'Whoa, I'm so cool.'

It is a human defect--to try to know one's self by the self of another.

Alone I'm nothing.

You have to have time to be sorry for yourself to be a good Abstract Expressionist.

This ridiculous object has been strutting around saying I this and I that and all the while it has no more I than a scarecrow and no more will than a puppet.

He does not identify the self with the physical body or attach much importance to the possessions of that body. He feeds it, dresses it, cares for it and regulates its behavior. In due course he leaves it. One of the powers conferred by entry into the fourth room is the capacity to die at will.

Y al crearte a ti mismo en un nuevo lugar, llegas a conocerte de un modo que no hubiera sido posible si no hubieras dejado tu Hogar.

I used to think it ignoble to try and flee from oneself—like an act of defeat…. But I'm tired now, Cezal, and I see there's no such thing as honor or dereliction. There is only emptiness.

a man is not his body, for he receives his body accidentally. He is not his skills, for those are frequently born of necessity. He is not his talents, which are produced by heredity and by early environmental factors. He is not the sicknesses to which he may be predisposed, and he is not the environment that shapes him. A man contains all these things, but he is greater than their total.

You must realize, Mr. Blaine, that a man is not his body, for he receives his body accidentally. He is not his skills, for those are frequently born of necessity. He is not his talents, which are produced by heredity and by early environmental factors. He is not the sicknesses to which he may be predisposed, and he is not the environment that shapes him.