Quotes About Self

I'm really just expressing myself in every different stage of my life.

If you look weird, you can blame the role, you know? So no one's going to tell me I'm having a mid-life crisis.

All human beings, without exception, are continually creating themselves with the life-energy that is flowing within them

Nothing that ever happens in life can take away the fact that I am me. So I have to go on being me.

resisting life, he finds that the Self is more than his own being; it includes the whole universe.

I feel a real connection to Brooklyn, certainly, because I spent 20 years of my life there, but I don't think of myself as a Brooklyn artist any more than I think of myself as a male artist.

...and I discovered something: the meaning of my life was whatever I wanted it to be.

Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others.

There are miracles in life I must achieve. But first I know it starts inside of me.

Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define who we become.

I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world.

You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.

I started reading about people of great accomplishment … and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.

Make sure you have your own life before becoming someone's wife ~spoken to Oprah in an interview

Our own body is the best health system we have-if we know how to listen to it.

I invented my life because I wasn't pleased with it.

life's endless war against the self you cannot live without.

If you choose, you can influence every aspect of your brain, and therefore every aspect of your life.

What I wanted to try and figure out was, okay, in contemporary 21st century life the alienation between the self and the land around you or the self and even the urban landscape. You name it.

Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become "I".

I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it's my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family.

I have a good friend who says, "We're all just dodging bullets." It seems to me the trick to living a good life is to try to move away from the gun you turn on yourself.

I'm a human being, god-dammit. My life has value!

I wrote to explain my own life to myself, stories are the vessels I use to interpret the world to myself.