Quotes About Self

I identify with my womanhood before anything else because that's what I deal with when I am alone.

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

No, I am not interested in women or sex or anything.

These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War.

In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.

I think that when you're exploring themes of humanity and what defines a hero and what makes us our best self and what makes us our worst self, you're going to stumble into territories of societal issues and that kind of thing. Sometimes you have accidents where you're not trying, but then the opportunity just presents itself. and you lean into it.

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.

To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

Tech gives people more opportunities to be themselves in front of other people. Sometimes that's great; sometimes it's bad.

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

I can only control my own performance. If I do my best, then I can feel good at the end of the day.

If you don't live your life, then who will?

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have struggled and sung the blues, is, like very best theories of human behavior, immune to falsification by mere evidence.

Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.

Some therapists have proclaimed: 'Co-dependency is anything, and everyone is co-dependent.'

I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist.

Once you realise you're carrying around lots of pain, I think go to therapy so you release yourself. You don't want to be a problem bore, poor me.

I can, therefore I am.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

Most actions derive not from your own initiative but from your family circumstances, your education, your calling, and so on. You must therefore give up a little time to performing actions which derive from yourself alone. They need not be important; quite insignificant actions fulfill the same purpose.