Quotes About Self

Most important, of course, we all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero.

Mnoge umiruje ?injenica da sveštenici još uvek postoje, da hodaju zemljom, da služe mise, da se mole i ponašaju kao da ?ovek ima dušu i kao da postoji nada za ljude. Tako i sam mislim kad vidim sveštenika koga ne poznajem. Ali kada se pogledam u ogledalo, to više ne funkcioniše.

Nobody, said Humboldt, had a destiny. One simply decided to feign one until one came to believe in it oneself. But so many things didn't fit in with it, one had to really force oneself.

Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.

life's meaning is not something to look for but something to create myself

The idea that life's meaning is not something to look for but something to create myself feels right to me. In fact, it seems absolutely essential.

First, we exist, and next, we create ourselves.

Loving and being loved affirmed one's sense of self and conquered feelings of loneliness and alienation. It kept one sane.

When all is said and done, this Existentialist precept resonates with me more than any other philosophy of life I know. The idea that life's meaning is not something to look for but something to create myself feels right to me. In fact, it seems absolutely essential.

We slough off the responsibility to create ourselves by shrugging and claiming, "That's just the way I am.

According to Sartre, we are historically prone to thinking of ourselves as objects due to the Judeo-Christian credo that God stamped us with our essence from the beginning; it is His prerogative. So to think that we are able to stamp ourselves is a sacrilege.

We have our own personal demons to deal with.

We don't always see ourselves as superior, but we almost always see ourselves as unique.

We treat our future selves as though they were our children, spending most of the hours of most of our days constructing tomorrows that we hope will make them happy. Rather

O grande desejo do rio é ser rio. Ele não quer ser outra coisa. E ele só não poderá sê-lo se abandonar sua verdadeira vocação.

One should aim to be worthy. But worthy of what? Worthy of one's self!

Belonging to groups often generates a kind of narcosis that gives us the illusion of sharing something missing from all the members of the group as individuals: completeness. Our main fear—fear of dissolution, of being nothing—keeps us from realizing that when we think we are one particular thing, and therefore isolated, we indeed become only that thing and lose the rest.

The body immediately confers perfection, that is, certainty with regard to the true nature of things . . . thanks to the contact with the power of the Self," says Abhinavagupta.

Vuoi che ti dica una cosa? Più lo si analizza, corpo moderno, più lo si esibisce, meno esso esiste. Annullato, in misura inversamente proporzionale alla sua esposizione.

Réduits a nous-mêmes, nous nous réduisons à rien.

Sentí muy pronto las ganas de huir... ¿Pero hacia dónde? Confusión. Huir de mí mismo, digamos, y sin embargo, seguir siendo yo mismo. Pero en un yo que hubiera sido aceptable para los demás.

La lettura non ha niente a che fare con l'organizzazione del tempo sociale. La lettura è, come l'amore, un modo di essere. La questione non è di sapere se ho o non ho tempo per leggere (tempo che nessuno, d'altronde, mi darà), ma se mi concedo o no la gioia di essere lettore.

The question isn't whether I have time to read or not (time that nobody will ever give me, by the way), but whether I'll allow myself the pleasure of being a reader.

Carl Jung wrote: "People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.