Quotes About Self

There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat.

She is a prisoner in the amber of her own past.

She knew any reasonable person would say she should downsize, downgrade, sell her apartment, but that was if you thought of an apartment as real estate instead of a home. She didn't want to sell her home. She thought of it as the last link to the self she had once been.

But I've finally recognized my body for what it is: a personality delivery system, designed expressly to carry my character from place to place, now and in the years to come.

But I've finally recognized my body for what it is: a personality delivery system, designed expressly to carry my character from place to place, now and in the years to come. It's like a car, and while I like a red convertible or even a Bentley as well as the next person, what I really need are four tires and an engine. I don't require a hood ornament. It's not about how my body looks at this point; it's about how it works.

I wondered why so much beauty should be given to those who made so bad a use of it, and denied to some who would make it a benefit to both themselves and others.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

A person can be lonely even if he is loved by many people, because he is still not the One and Only to anyone.

I've found that there is always some beauty left — in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can help you. Look at these things, then find yourself again, and God, and then you regain your balance.

If only I can be myself, I'll be satisfied.

There's only one thing to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else!

But there's only one person I'm accountable to, and that's me.

sal fuera, a los prados, la naturaleza y al sol. Sal fuera y trata de encontrar la felicidad en ti misma, piensa en todas las cosas bellas que hay dentro de ti y a tu alrededor, y se feliz.

Everyone has to decide for himself how to get the better of his own mood

Geh hinaus in die Felder, die Natur und die Sonne. Geh hinaus und versuche, das Gluck in dir selbst zuruckzufinden. Denke an all das Schone, das noch in dir und um dir ist, und sei glucklich!

Quero continuar a viver, mesmo depois de minha morte! E por isso agradeço a Deus, que me deu esse dom, essa possibilidade de me desenvolver e escrever, de saber expressar tudo o que há em mim.

I didn't trust anyone but myself.

This is because having to obey one concept of right is inherently unjust. God has given each of us a unique sense of right, so when we are forced to live under someone else's for years and years, we run the risk of losing our own. But not everyone can be crushed. Sooner or later the longing for freedom is bound to assert itself.

Ich weiss, was ich will, habe ein Ziel, habe eine eigene Meinung, habe einen Glauben und eine Liebe. Lasst mich ich selbst sein, dann bin ich zufrieden! Ich weiss, dass ich eine Frau bin, eine Frau mit innerer Starke und viel Mut!

Und dann schlafe ich mit dem verrückten Gefühl ein, anders sein zu wollen als zu sein oder anders zu sein als zu wollen oder vielleicht auch anders zu tun als zu wollen oder zu sein.

You have to be a warrior and say, Maybe it's everyone else's system, but it's not mine. (from her recent interview here, on Goodreads)

Haters want us to hate them, because hate is incapacitating. When we hate, we can't operate from our real selves, which is our strength.

My theory is that, as with our children, as with every surface of that geodesic dome inside the 8-Ball, every age we've ever been is who we are.

Haters want us to hate them because hate is incapacitating. When we hate we can't operate from our real selves, which is our strength.