Quotes About Self

Was gibt uns wohl den schönsten Frieden, Als frei am eignen Glück zu schmieden

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exist for his sake.

Eres, al fin y al cabo, lo que eres. Aunque te pongas una peluca con miles de rizos, aunque te pongas tacones de un codo de altura, seguirás siendo lo que eres.

And why should I feel ashamed in that dreadful moment when my entire self trembles on the edge of being and not-being

Quello che so, chiunque può saperlo, il mio cuore l'ho soltanto io.

E rido del mio stesso cuore, e… faccio la sua volontà.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that you can make anything happen.

And I mock at my heart - and then do what it demands.

Nelere sahibim! Ama onu dü?ünmem; neyim varsa hepsini çekip at?yor! Nelere sahibim... Ama onsuz, benim için her ?ey hiçle?iyor!

Aunque te pongas una peluca con miles de rizos, aunque te pongas tacones de un codo de altura, seguirás siendo lo que eres.

Wenn wir uns selbst fehlen, fehlt uns doch alles.

Era una sensazione piacevole quella di scivolare a volte da soli sul'acqua ed essere battellieri e piloti di se stessi

Was der Mensch als Gott verehrt, ist sein eigenstes Innere herausgekehrt.

Der Glauben an sich selbst ist Magie, wenn du das tust, kannst du alles erreichen.

This is life … to play the game, to play the cards we get; play them uncomplainingly and play them to the end. The game may not be worth the while. The stakes may not be worth the winning. But the playing of the game is the forgetting of self, and we should be game sports and play it bravely to the end.

If you could look far enough into the empty sky, you would be able to see the back of your own head.

Carrying such a tension of the opposites is like a Crucifixion. We must be as one suspended between the opposites, a painful state to bear. But in such a state of suspension the grace of God is able to operate within us. The problem of our duality can never be resolved on the level of the ego; it permits no rational solution. But where there is consciousness of a problem, the Self, the Imago Dei within us can operate and bring about an irrational synthesis of the personality.

Try a little subtlety in self-defense; it'll help, you'll find out.

Humility is a reflection of vulnerability; it is the self giving itself permission to say, "I don't know everything.

Happiness was different in childhood. It was so much then a matter simply of accumulation, of taking things - new experiences, new emotions - and applying them like so many polished tiles to what would someday be the marvellously finished pavilion of the self.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. Hamlet could be told from Polonius's point of view and called The Tragedy of Polonius, Lord Chamberlain of Denmark. He didn't think he was a minor character in anything, I daresay.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

Nobody knew how to be what they were right.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. Hamlet could be told from Polonius's point of view and called The Tragedy of Polonius, Lord Chamberlain of Denmark. He didn't think he was a minor character in anything, I daresay.