Quotes About Self

What I wanted to say was: I understand that it wasn't that you didn't want to be with me anymore, but you didn't want to be yourself anymore, the one you were with me.

Andrew Sean Greer

Why this endless need for a man as a mirror? To see the Arthur Less reflected there?

There is no essential self that lies pure as a vein of gold under the chaos of experience and chemistry. Anything can be changed, and we must understand the human organism as a sequence of selves that succumb to or choose one another.

To wage war on depression is to fight against oneself, and it is important to know that in advance of the battles.

Therapy allows a person to make sense of the new self he has attained on medication, and to accept the loss of self that occurred during a breakdown. You need to be reborn after a severe episode, and you need to learn the behaviors that may protect against relapse. You need to run your life differently from how you ran it before.

But you are never the same once you have acquired the knowledge that there is no self that will not crumble. We are told to learn self-reliance, but it's tricky if you have no self on which to rely.

Psychosis is a gross disturbance in an individual's ability to distinguish self from reality. For schizophrenics, the membrane between imagination and reality is so porous that having an idea and having an experience are not particularly different.

We do not seek painful experiences that adhere to our identities but rather we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences

It's clear that identity is a finite concept. What's not clear is the location of its boundaries.

M? simt tot timpul ca ?i cum fiecare ar vrea o buc??ic? din mine.

A proud man will be set against all that is holy, for he is the God of his own world.

With the heart, you invest in another person. With your liver, you invest in yourself, and if you don't love yourself, how can you love someone else?

She could never be free from herself, but she could be free from her father, and at the moment that mattered most.

Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris

All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?

I knew her hair and her coloring and her shapes would be different next time, but the way she wore her body would keep on.

Polly was pretty good at dieting, all right, but she was beginning to wonder whether you ever lost the parts of your self that you wanted to lose.

Sometimes when she thought of Eric, and now more powerfully when she saw him, she felt some achy nostalgia for her old self. For the dauntless, daring soul she used to be. There were certain qualities you possessed carelessly. And you couldn't retrieve them when they were gone.

can you make yourself love? can you make yourself be loved?

They hadn't quite considered that by trusting one part of your life, you could undermine all the others. By siding with an early version of yourself, preemptively, you would doubt all future selves that conflicted with it.

It was a kind of duty you owed yourself that when anybody said come on son do this or do that you should stand up and say look mister why should I do this for whom am I doing it and what am I going to get out of it in the end?

My backside is my best side

Admit I find everything strange and foreign. She finds a metaphor for her condition without defining it. It is my concern for happiness that cause me the most anguish. She now used him to perform her own tragedy for herself.