Quotes About Self

Dylan talked copiously then stopped, 'Somebody's boring me,' he said, 'I think its me.

Not knowing humiliation, you are ignorant of what it is to arrive at the last stage of yourself.

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

Be normal, now. Right now. Because you are. Because you can be.

It was like being able to fight, she realized. And being able to change accents. They were powers that lived in your body. They would never leave you, no matter how you looked, no matter who loved or didn't love you.

She didn't know if she could love her own mangled, strange heart. She wanted someone else to do it for her, to see it beating behind her ribs and to say, I can see your true self. It is there, and it is rare and worthy. I love you.

I don't even have my real face anymore, I don't even know who I see in the mirror.

The presentation of self in everyday life. This guy Goffman had the idea that in different situations, you perform yourself differently. Your character isn't static. It's an adaptation.

Lots of girls don't notice when they are in this situation. They are so focused on their boyfriends that they don't remember they had a life at all before their romances, so they don't become upset that the boyfriend isn't interested.

Think of your happy memories. Know they are still in you. They are part of you. And maybe even they ARE you.

This is the only time I will ever tell, I say to myself.

Be normal, right now. Because you are, because you can be.

Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.

Western societies are, by and large, individualistic societies. The most important entity in an individualistic culture is the individual person.

To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.

if we want to avoid suffering, we must start with ourselves, because all suffering comes from our own desires.

We are ourselves only by the sum of our failures.

When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.

Italy and London are the only places where I don't feel to exist on sufferance.

They have yielded to the only enemy that matters - the enemy within.

Quizás nadie quisiese tal amor, pero podía ya no sentirse avergonzado de él, porque aquel amor era "él", no el cuerpo o el alma, no alma y cuerpo, sino "él" viviendo en ambos.

Against my will I have become normal. I cannot help it.

Helen in those days was over-interested in the subconscious self. She exaggerated the Push and Judy aspect of life, and spoke of mankind as puppets, whom an invisible showman twitches into love and war. Margaret pointed out that if she dwell on this she, too, would eliminate the personal

Contra a minha vontade, tornei-me normal. Não consigo evitá-lo.»