Quotes About Self

It takes a strong self—that is, a strong sense of personal identity—to relate fully to nature without being swallowed up.

conscious anxiety is more painful but it is available also to use in the service of integration of the self.

A sick toss'd vessel, dashing on each thing . . . My God, I mean myself.

namely that man does not grow automatically like a tree, but fulfills his potentialities only as he in his own consciousness plans and chooses.

anxiety is evidence of a battle between our strength as a self on one side and a danger which threatens to wipe out our existence as a self on the other.

one grows not only by being one's self but also by participating in other selves, is necessary if we are to move toward self-realization.

But in another respect man is very different from the rest of nature. He possesses consciousness of himself; his sense of personal identity distinguishes him from the rest of the living or nonliving things. And nature cares not a fig for man's personal

Neurosis may be called a negating of possibilities; it is the shrinking up of one's world. The development of the self is this radically curtailed.

The fear of being alone derives much of its terror from our anxiety lest we lose our awareness of ourselves. If people contemplate being alone for longish periods of time, without anyone to talk to or any radio to eject noise into the air, they generally are afraid that they would be at "loose ends," would lose the boundaries for themselves, would have nothing to bump up against, nothing by which to orient themselves.

I don't like people who mistake their private neurosis for a philosophical outlook.

Mon je ne me suffit pas.

Trop, c'est personne.

Quelque chose a été enfermé en moi, par erreur, dans la peau d'un homme.

Starr noticed that some of her prettiness was gone now, and that left her beautiful. The inner wear and tear was showing through. Shining through.

If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.

Wandering is the activity of the child, the passion of the genius; it is the discovery of the self, the discovery of the outside world, and the learning of how the self is both "at one with" and "separate from" the outside world. These discoveries are as fundamental to the soul as "learning to survive" is fundamental to the body. These discoveries are essential to realizing what it means to be human. To wander is to be alive.

With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair.

Anyone has a right to make a fool of herself if she's really in love," Caroline said. "There aren't any laws. But you have to realize everyone else does it too, and forgive yourself. That is a law." "Whose law?" "Caroline's law," Caroline said. "Do you really believe that?" April asked softly. "I have to. I try to, that is.

In the effort to protect yourself, you risk numbing yourself to the world in which you are embedded.

In some of these cases, I found that I could not defend my beliefs adequately and needed to change my opinion. In others, I was able to reaffirm my convictions with real confidence. The point is that reexamining these basic beliefs was painful, sometimes agonizingly so. It was not a purely intellectual effort, but involved some of my deepest emotions. It challenged my sense of myself, since I had closely identified some of these beliefs with who I was and what I stood for.

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character," John Morley,

Sólo siendo absolutamente libre se puede bailar bien, se puede hacer bien el amor y se puede escribir bien. Actividades todas ellas importantísimas.

La #Intimidad: no tener muy claro donde acabas tú y empieza el otro.

Para vivir tenemos que narrarnos; somos un producto de nuestra imaginación. Nuestra memoria en realidad es un invento, un cuento que vamos reescribiendo cada día (lo que recuerdo hoy de mi infancia no es lo que recordaba hace veinte años); lo que quiere decir que nuestra identidad también es ficcional, puesto que se basa en la memoria.