Quotes About Self

Sometimes I wanted to peel away all of my skin and find a different me underneath.

You have to make your own family, your own life.

I didn't tell him that what I was most scared of, most haunted by, was something I didn't understand and could never run away from. It was myself.

Are you? What? What you once were? I can't remember.

You're just taking the blame on yourself to avoid confronting the fullscale victimization you underwent.

Am I in the picture? Am I getting in or out of it? I could be a ghost, an animal or a dead body, not just this girl standing on the corner…?

You cannot see me from where I look at myself.

I think of it as creating a connection to ourselves, to the Divine, and to others in a more harmonious and intelligent way. Creating connection and presence with our relationships. - Amy Ippoliti

from the earliest passages to the diary's final entry, in which she talks about her "dual personality," the lighthearted, superficial side that lies in wait to ambush and push away her "better, deeper, and purer" self.

singing has to come from the inside, and i don't have anything left inside.' 'really?' Ruth said, amazed, 'How did that happen?' 'it all just drained out.

Falling in love meant you lost control of your emotions and your will and your life. It meant you lost yourself.

The result, in this world view, is that real freedom comes not from the decisions of an ego-self's "will" but from action without any Self whatsoever

I, an unnaturally large caterpillar, will reveal to you that of yourself which yet you know not

The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not...yet, I occurred.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

What does a mirror look at?

To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.

Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.

I told him that to endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.

They who learn the lesson of self-deception too well shall perish by that deception.

When we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan.

Your habits always come hunting after you. The self you construct will haunt you. A ghost wandering around in search of your body, eager to possess you. We are addicted to the self we construct.

Each of us is the enemy [...] to the other and to himself. That's what I mean: I'm the enemy within myself. Unless I master that enemy, I always lose.