Quotes About Self

I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself.

The spark divine dwells in thee: let it grow.

The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.

The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.

I think one of the primary themes in my work is the paradox of memory, at once fundamental to our sense of who we are and yet elusive, ever-changing, fragmentary. One way to look at this is to say that, therefore, we ourselves are elusive, ever-changing and fragmentary to ourselves.

Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart—it's all a man has. —Hubert Humphrey

Why couldn't she just let herself go?

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. —VICTOR HUGO

And so she ghosted on, in relentless pursuit of escape, not from society, but from herself.

You're the one who has to live with your choice. Everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will.

To Cassidy, the panopticon wasn't a metaphor. It was the greatest failing of everything she was, a prison she had built for herself out of an inability to appear anything less than perfect. And so she ghosted on, in relentless pursuit of escape, not from society, but from herself. She would always be confined by what everyone expected of her, because she was too afraid and too unwilling to correct our imperfect imaginings.

I thought about the metal in my knee, replacing this piece of me that was missing, that no longer worked. And it wasn't my heart, I kept telling myself. It wasn't my heart.

To Cassidy, the panopticon wasn't a metaphor. It was the greatest failing of everything she was, a prison she had built for herself out of an inability to appear anything less than perfect. And so she ghosted on, in relentless pursuit of escape, not from society, but from herself. She would always be confined by what everyone expected of her, because she was too afraid and too unwilling to correct our imperfect imaginings.

By the time I packed up, I wondered if I'd really been looking for Cassidy after all, or if I'd been hoping to find myself.

In the end, either Christ is at the center of our lives, or the Self and all its idolatries are.

Here is the end point of modernity: the autonomous, freely choosing individual, finding meaning in no one but himself.

For the traditional Christian, establishing internal order is not mere discipline, nor is it simply an act of will. Rather, it is what theologian Romano Guardini called man's efforts to "regain his right relation to the truth of things, to the demands of his own deepest self, and finally to God."3

Si te dieras cuenta de lo poderosos que son tus pensamientos, no volverías a pensar nada negativo jamás." Peace Pilgrim

Mindful walking reinforces the sense of "me" walking "with" awareness. An exercise more aligned with wise view would be to walk within awareness, allowing awareness the full and true embrace of the person, with the person no longer in control of awareness.

This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be much more warming. Most of all, perhaps, these exultant yells for the Mets were also yells for ourselves, and came from a wry, half-understood recognition that there is more Met than Yankee in every one of us. I knew for whom that foghorn blew; it blew for me.

these exultant yells for the Mets were also yells for ourselves, and came from a wry, half-understood recognition that there is more Met than Yankee in every one of us. I knew for whom that foghorn blew; it blew for me.

Only you can unleash the positive power of personal accountability to overcome the obstacles you face and achieve the results you want.

Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.

I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.