Quotes About Self

I like having the freedom to dress as I desire.

The deepest parts of you know that if freedom from fear was as easy as 'creating a new reality' for yourself, then you would already be the fearless person you know in your heart that you're meant to be.

I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.

I see the wielding of a pronoun as something that can be freeing for some members of society but a shackle to others like myself.

When it comes to the fearless life, the divine gives nothing freely... save to those who freely give themselves to discovering the truth about their own fearless selves.

My real self is probably more creative and more frightening than any sort of drink or drug-induced state.

I chase dreams that fulfill me and not a dream that somebody else describes to me.

Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves.

Being me is a full-time job.

I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.

My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental.

My body is sometimes this thing I look at and think, 'What strange, alien thing grew around my consciousness?' It's like this weird fungus that's just there.

Funk is part of who I am.

If you do not run your subconscious mind yourself, someone else will run it for you.

I protect myself by refusing to know myself.

That monstrosity you honour with your name - which is also mine, thank you!

By Jove...' he said to himself: 'It's true! What a jolly little mistress she'd make!

I guess it is vanity that makes most of us keep straight, if we do keep straight, in this world.

Love solves nothing, but your love made me appear to myself.

Observe that for the novelist who has remained Christian, like myself, man is someone creating himself or destroying himself. He is not an immobile being, fixed, cast in a mold once and for all. This is what makes the traditional psychological novel so different from what I did or thought I was doing. The human being as I conceive him in the novel is a being caught up in the drama of human salvation, even if he doesn't know it.

When I lie by myself and remember I begin to have pains everywhere and I think of things that make me begin to scream because I hate them so. If there was a doctor anywhere who could make you forget you were ill instead of remembering it I would have him brought here.

So she began to feel a slight interest in Dickon, and as she had never before been interested in any one but herself, it was the dawning of a healthy sentiment. When

It was a vague belief that she herself was not quite real—or that she did not belong to the life she had been born into.

Under Magnolia is much more than an entrancing memoir: it is a work of art that defies the distinction between prose and poetry or novels and autobiographies. It is also much more than a personal narrative: it is an unflinching meditation on the relation between self and culture, and, more specifically, on the gravitational pull of memory. This is a book to be savored, a feast for both mind and soul.