Quotes About Self

Fourth time's the charm, she says to people who ask her what the secret of a happy marriage is, but that's not the way she feels about it. She knows now that when you don't lose yourself in the bargain, you find you have double the love you started with, and that's one recipe that can't be tampered with.

She's beginning to wonder if perhaps she's haunting herself.

When you change your name you change your fate as well.

Whoever gives his true self away does do with words

But rules were never the point. It was finding out who you were.

Someone killed himself because of me once, Meredith said. People kill themselves because of what's inside of them, not because of other people.

This was the virtue of the dark: you were who you had always been, only no one could see you.

You walk into the dark and the darkness abides within you.

I had lost my mother and my father and my sister, and sometimes when I caught a glimpse of myself in a shop window, I wondered if perhaps I hadn't lost myself as well

I fear myself more than I fear any bear,' Emily blurted. It was the way she'd felt in her aloneness, the comfort she took in being on the mountain.

you repudiate who you are. Once you do that, life works against you, and your fate is no longer your own.

I could tell people anything I wanted to and whatever I told them, that would be the truth as far as they were concerned. Whoever I said I was, well, then that's who I'd be.

Math plus desire equals who you are.

who I am to talk? I dream of rain.

She once told me that anyone who gets married had better like herself, because there's nobody else in this world that she'll ever really know, not truly.

She knows now that when you don't lose yourself in the bargain, you find you have double the love you started with, and that's one recipe that can't be tampered with.

Fazer magia para si mesma é complicado. A magia é algo que você deve usar para ajudar os outros. Se usá-la em benefício próprio, o tiro pode sair pela culatra e lhe causar inúmeros problemas.

Some people make their own grief.

that you must be yourself no matter what; anything else was a lie, and a denial of who you were would always cause grief. What you put out into the world came back to you threefold.

108I was a rat perhaps, but never a mouse.

All I wanted was to be somebody else. Was that asking too much? Was that asking for everything?

I'll pretend to be who they want me to be.' He grinned then, and she saw his youth. 'But it won't work. In the end I'll have to disappoint someone. Either them, or myself.

itself, had emerged from that shadow.

Hesse in his mature years suffered from the tragic and painful state of being separated from his true self, to which doctors refer offhandedly as depression.