Quotes About Self

You are the product of your own brainstorm.

said maybe I will call myself Ross H. Spencer. I said he can't write either.

As the psychologist Carl Jung put it: 'I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become';

The saved man seeks to conform himself to the Word and will of God; the self-righteous man seeks to conform God and the world to his word and will. The

To think of myself as a body, to be conscious of myself as a body, is to be conscious of other people's consciousness.

to be conscious of myself is to be aware of myself as a node point in a web of information exchange, which corporately constructs the idea of objects, selves, persons.

We're talking about a reality in which people enter into the experience, the aspiration, the sense of self, of others. And

Memory is the 'self', because it is my presence to myself, the way in which I constitute myself and understand myself as a subject with a continuous history of experience.

So baptism means being with Jesus 'in the depths': the depths of human need, including the depths of our own selves in their need – but also in the depths of God's love; in the depths where the Spirit is re-creating and refreshing human life as God meant it to be.

It is on the inward condition that the outer reality depends.

Sad is the man who has no place to put his faith other than in himself.

HE WORLD LOOKS AT YOU and sees one person; you look in the mirror and see another.

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

You're born naked, the rest is drag.

Egoistical opinion that a man is the king of nature was created by the man himself, so he can justify his wrong decisions.

I've never had any health problems and I'm Ruben, man, all the way through.

I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced.

Now nothing is anything, and everything is nothingness, just the cannons of pressure going off in my head. It's as if your old personality has been sucked out so slowly that you didn't notice its departure. Very slowly it's been stolen away and each day you remember less and less of who you are and what you feel.

Sometimes a man has to cry. Even if he is a man.

I am, as it were, an eye that the cosmos uses to look at itself.

It was the myth of the self that led to boredom and selfishness; all human pain came from their mad belief that an individual is anything other than an integral part of the One universe all around.

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

So many grown-up people seem to be nothing very much.