Quotes About Self

The boundaries of your life are merely a creation of the self.

I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

I have to convince myself that this is not a pointless life, even the body is telling me so.

The illusion that you could hold to yourself the things you most want and lose the things you least wanted to keep..?s the struggle of l?fe.

The moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it histruth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced a falsehood.

Managing life from our mental control towers, we have separated ourselves from our bodies and hearts.

I don't have to live the roller coaster other people live with my life. It's hard because people try to have an effect.

Maybe I'm a human, but I'm a me-and-Ma as well.

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.

You are the most powerful force in your life.

Today's a great day to change a life. Starting with yours.

I own my life. And only mine. And so I shall appreciate my person. And so I shall make proper use of myself.

You try to keep life simple but it never works, and in the end all you have left is yourself.

Thirty-five is half a life. I can't lose the other half. I've lost so much living as a shadow of a person.

The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.

You can change your life, and you can heal yourself.

I have to live my life, and it is the only one I'll ever have.

Some people are going to be happy (with my decision). Some people aren't. But I must live my life.

Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations.

I've had to spend an awful lot of my life trying to pretend I'm not posh. Although once I open my mouth, I rather let things out the bag.

The eighties weren't just about androgyny, and in a sense they embraced polymorphous perversity in a way it had never been embraced before, an exploration of self that hadn't been as intense since the sixties. This was a new type of bohemianism, one empowered by a certainty and an optimism that was only fleeting back in the so-called Swinging Sixties.

Into the sea of yourself like a young dog, and bring out a pearl.

Reaching a self freedom is the only object.