Quotes About Self

People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large.

Who am I, when I am not surrounded by the walls of my life? When they have all fallen into dust and rubble?

A little time passed, with nothing to distract him from the full enjoyment and appreciation of his new array of physical sensations. He'd thought he'd sampled every sort of agony in the catalogue, but the goons' shock-sticks had found out nerves and synapses and ganglial knots he'd never known he possessed. Nothing like pain, to concentrate the attention upon the self.

For all his silences, the man was about as self-effacing as a neutron star; light itself seemed to bend around him.

Luck is something you make for yourself, if you want it.

Cogito ergo sum—I think, therefore I am.

I am what I am and cannot be otherwise because of the shadows.

Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.

I tell them dance begins when a moment of hurt combines with a moment of boredom. I tell them it's the body's reaching, bringing air to itself. I tell them that it's the heart's triumph, the victory speech of the feet, the refinement of animal lunge and flight, the purest metaphor of tribe and self. It's life flipping death the bird. I make this stuff up.

She had expected a pistol to seem light and natural-a seamless extension of her angry feral self.

But there was in the air that kind of distortion that bent you a little; it caused your usual self to grow slippery, to wander off and shop, to get blurry, bleed, bevel with possibility.

the people-pleaser struggles to do it with the right motive. Pleasing and glorifying God by serving others takes a backseat to serving others to promote and glorify self.

We all go Do, Re, Mi, but you've gotta find all the other notes yourself.

I have been driven to search everywhere just to find myself mentioned. I am mentioned almost nowhere, but where I find myself, I find myself condemned.

T? ir mana mor?le. Es piespiežu sevi iedom?ties, ka tas attiecas uz mani person?gi.

To live in a city, one must be larger than one's environment or enjoy belonging to the crowd.

Actually, he said one morning, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you an education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child's coloring book. You must fill in all the colors yourself.

Peaceful change is the healthiest change, but if you will look closely you will see what the so-called revolutionary who deals in violence wants is simply violence. He is unhappy with himself, believes himself incapable of coping with the situation as it is, so tries to disrupt it. He wants violence to relieve his own anger and pent-up hatred.

Each day is a day to live and in which to keep from dying, and a man's energies are directed out from himself and his thoughts as well.

I only mean to say that I have a feeling that it never was intended I should live long. I'm not like the rest of you.

I don't want a fashionable wedding, but only those about me whom I love, and to them I wish to look and be my familiar self.

In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself, Father Trais went on. Everything out in the world is also in you. Good, bad, evil, perfection, death, everything. So we study our souls.

Exactly right—folded quietly and knitted in right along with the working DNA there is a shadow self. This won't surprise poets. We carry our own genetic doubles, at least in part.

The world can go on without me. Here I shall be held by love.