Quotes About Self

Everybody wanted to be what he was to the limit.

All who live are in despair.(?) And that is the sickness unto death.(?) It is that a man refuses to be what he is.(?)

It is better to die what you are than to live a stranger forever

But I have had visions of judgment. I see mainly the obstinacy of cripples. We do not love ourselves, but persist in stubbornness. Each man is stubbornly, stubbornly himself.

But I have had visions of judgment. I see mainly the obstinacy of cripples. We do not love ourselves, but persist in stubbornness. Each man is stubbornly, stubbornly himself. Above all himself, to the end of time.

As a man sees, so he is." The world as it appears to you classifies your mind.

The challenge of modern freedom, or the combination of isolation and freedom which confronts you, is to make yourself up. The danger is that you may emerge from the process as a not-entirely-human creature.

Never be yourself if you can make yourself into something better through your conscious actions. You are what you do.

From the beginning God created us with that radical freedom: to choose him, or to choose ourselves instead.

c'était moi qui souffrais de troubles du caractère, pas lui. J'étais responsable de mon temps. C'était à moi seul de décider comment je voulais l'utiliser et l'organiser.

But I'm pretty on the inside.

Yes. What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

Just remember, the things we write, they aren't always really us.

Wisdom tells me i'm nothing, love tells me I'm everything.

When we have lost ourselves, we have lost everything.

Once we are lost unto ourselves, everything else is lost to us.

Y me río de mi propio corazón… y le cumplo sus caprichos.

Quando faltamos a nós mesmos, tudo nos falta.

Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us and then we'll need no other light.

Is it Mind that works and creates what's ours?

Ço?u kez dünyada olup olmad???m? bile bilemiyorum!

mi corazón, este corazón, única cosa de que estoy orgulloso, única fuente de toda fuerza, de toda felicidad y de todo infortunio. ¡Ah! Lo que yo sé, cualquiera lo puede saber; pero mi corazón lo tengo yo solo.

Die alberne Figur, die ich mache, wenn in Gesellschaft von ihr gesprochen wird, solltest du sehen! Wenn man mich nun gar fragt, wie sie mir gefällt?—gefällt! Das Wort hasse ich auf den Tod. Was muß das für ein Mensch sein, dem Lotte gefällt, dem sie nicht alle Sinne, alle Empfindungen ausfüllt!

Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.