Quotes About Self

Most of the depressions are self-created. A few people are pathologically ill: they cannot help it. It just comes from within because of genetic and other factors. But almost everybody else can be driven to madness, because the line between sanity and insanity is quite thin.

You must learn to perceive as your self that which lies outside you. Looking only within oneself leads to a hardening in oneself, to a higher egotism.

I have a passion for music, and I enjoy the process of expressing myself within the parameters of a pop song, and I don't do it to seek anybody's approval, necessarily. Obviously, you go on stage, and you enjoy it when people respond to a particular song, but the overall concept of playing music I do for myself.

To me, it's that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy.

You hold the keys of change within you. You be the change you want to see.

The thing to do is to build a fortress within yourself.

Starting with the lyrics, 'Only scared of myself and the truth in the stars/I'm a king, I'm the dirt, God within me shine,' the first half of '6 Weeks' delves into my attempts to balance the notion that I have an existential purpose with the realization that I am nothing against the vastness of the universe.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

We witness so many people lose themselves in this industry, and sacrifice who they really are for success and accolades.

I give and give, and sometimes I can't find me. I'm sure many moms and wives go down that same rabbit hole.

I'm still a little certain I'm a wizard.

I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.

Be yourself. If you're not yourself, who are you? But take advice; listen to people. If you're not listening, you're lost. You're a sheep among wolves.

We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something that is simply true about us, a fact about us, but actually it's a phenomenon that is being produced all the time and reproduced all the time, so to say gender is performative is to say that nobody really is a gender from the start.

I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

I don't know what I am if I'm not a woman.

It's not easy being a woman. Especially when you're a part-time one. You never really get used to it.

A woman simply is, but a man must become.

I learned a woman is never an old woman.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

I'm just an average woman with average concerns.

I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman's personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.