Quotes About Self

I kill, therefore I am.

We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.

Like flocks of small dark birds, hidden parts of the self weep

That was with me for years--feeling I wasn't myself. And I do think I wasn't my real self then. Of course, I'm not sure there is such a thing as a real self. You could ransack your innards looking for the real you and never find it--slice yourself open and all you'll find is blood and muscle and bone.

People were infected with the concept that happiness was something outside themselves, and a new and powerful form of loneliness was born.

I don't tell the murky world to turn pure. I purify myself and check my reflection in the water of the valley brook.

It was definitely not a dream, Vader convinced himself without difficulty. Dreams are for pathetic life-forms. He stared at his own reflection on the surface of the viewscreen. I am the nightmare.

Why do you so earnestly seek the truth in distant places? Look for delusion and truth in the bottom of your own heart.

Two lusts breed in the soul of man: the lust for aggresion, and the lust for telling lies. If one will not allow himself to wrong others, he will wrong himself. If he doesn't come across anyone to lie to, he will lie to himself in his own thoughts.

They don't realise that they've changed; they think it's the world that changed.

The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.

Once you label me you negate me.

To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.

So please, for the love of gender- go bloom. Or water someone else while they do.

I'm just saying: I have never really felt like a girl is not the same as I have always felt like a boy. I mention this because when I have these tortuous inner conversations about how I may yet need to change my body and whether (and in what way) I am prepared to invest myself in the destination model of transition, I have to keep reminding myself of this important thing.

As she began to speak she stood and started to wrap herself, expertly, creating a binding in minutes that held without a wrinkle until the show ended. Peggy made a connection between binding her breasts and wrapping her hands in boxing wraps; this was what one did before battle, to protect one's self (and it is the Self, absolutely, that binding protects for many butches).

Yet we may constantly do more in what we are than in what we do. We may serve better in the lives we live than in the best service we ever give. The memory of that should bring rest to your spirit when a bit tired, and may be disheartened because tired.

These fragments that have helped shape your fulfillment are a part of my being; is there no connection between these and the rest of my person? Can the rest of me dissociate itself from these fragments? You have made yourself whole, but you have done so at the cost of my integrity. Is this what I defied you for?

Hiçbiri insan? insan yapan ?eyin ?ahsiyet oldu?unu, bütün ilimlerin, bütün tecrübelerin yaln?z bunu temine yarad???n? anlamam??t?r.

on seneden beri içlerinde ya?ad??? halde bir türlü al??amad??? bu insanlar?n aras?nda onun da sa?lam bir yeri olmal?yd?. Yaln?z kendisine dayanan yaln?z kendisinin olan bir yeri.

?htiyarl???mda çekilmez bir adam olaca??m hakk?ndaki iltifat?na te?ekkür ederim. Ama bu tahminin do?ru ç?kmayacak san?r?m. Çünkü ihtiyarlayaca??m? kim söyledi? Hep genç kalaca??m.

Herkesin bir tek dünyas? vard?r, o da kendisi... Üst taraf?yla alakadar olmaya bile de?mez...

The free being is only that which makes itself free.

But this one, my dear, is for me.