Quotes About Self

I don't want to see it. I don't want to look at something that determines me so completely.

It took me a long time to figure out that the youngest in a family of dragons is still a dragon from the point of view of those who find dragons alarming.

When push comes to shove, only one's own nightmares are of any interest or significance

What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them to suit ourselves - our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies. Now that I've been one myself, I know.

These words are yours, though you never said them, you never heard them, history breeds death but if you kill it you kill yourself.

My self is a thing that I must now compose...as one composes a speech. What I must present is a 'made' thing. Not something born.

It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge.

I don't think I've ever changed clothes so fast in my life, but once I got the silver dress off and those clothes on I began to feel more like myself.

whose life am I living. Whose life am I failing to live

Me estiro, pues, dentro de la habitación, bajo el ojo de escayola del techo, detrás de las cortinas blancas, entre las sábanas, y me deslizo dentro de mi propio tiempo, abandonando el ritmo que nos marcan. Aunque esto también forma parte del ritmo, y yo no estoy fuera de él.

we were snares and enticements despite ourselves, we were the innocent and blameless causes that through our very nature could make men drunk with lust

But my dreaming self refuses to be consoled.

So instead she's sitting remembering how much she can no longer remember, of who she used to be, who she thought she would turn into when she grew up.

MYSELF: You have never understood. My integrity means more to me than happiness. CHRISTINA: You have none. There is no such thing. You are not a whole person. Nobody is. We are members one of another. An arm has no integrity if it is amputated. It is nothing unless it is part of a body, with a heart to pump the blood through it and a brain to guide it. You have no more integrity than a severed arm might have.

The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the conversation around yourself—and keep it there.

The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about him, and then gradually lead the conversation around to yourself-and keep it there. Scarlett would have felt some cause for alarm if Melanie had been saying: How wonderful you are!! or How do you ever think of such things? My little ole brain would bust if I even tried to think about them! But here she was, with a man at her feet, talking as seriously as if she were in church.

I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

I'm still not totally sure I know what's true about me.

Be grateful for yourself...be thankful.

Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse.

Twas the night before Thanksgiving. All the food's in the oven. And I'm in the bedroom performin' self lovin'.

I am not the man I once was. I do not want to go back in time, to be the second son, the second man.

There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.

Your reality is yours. Stop wasting time looking at someone else's reality while doing nothing about yours.