Quotes About Self

We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.

If you would create something, you must be something.

To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.

I laugh at my heart, and do its will.

Du bist am Ende was du bist.

Behaviour is a mirror in which everyone shows his image.

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him, and which one perchance may safely twitch and pull, but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over and over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

Everything you have in your life, you have attracted to yourself because of the way you think, because of the person that you are. You can change your life because you can change the way you think.

My family life mirrors why I am the person I am.

In order to change your life outside, you must first change inside

Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.

There is no greater privilege in life than being yourself.

Life is an endlessly creative experience, and we are shaping ourselves at every moment by every decision we make.

I struggle with deciding when to answer or ignore the constant speculation about my private life, because I feel like that doesn't belong to anybody but me.

I've always felt a confidence in what I do from the simple fact that I know I represent my own life.

Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair.

life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; ... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there.

To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.

The secret to life is trusting yourself and loving who you are, just the way you are.

I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem.

The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life.

People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.

You know how to drive a car, but you do not know how to drive your life!

Unfortunately, Poots is the name that I've been graced with for my life, but it's not short for anything.