Quotes About Self

Power, true power, comes from within. Not without. (Nick)

You know, Talon. Towels look really good on you. You go outside like that and you'll start a whole new fashion craze. (Sunshine) Do you always say everything that comes to your mind? (Talon) Mostly. I do have some thoughts I keep to myself. I used to not care and would say anything at all, but then one time my college roommate called the psycho unit on me. You know, they really do have white coats. (Sunshine)

Note to self on waking. Lay off the beer on an empty stomach. This dream is even more screwed up than the time I had a donkey and a corkscrew. (Aiden) Donkey and a corkscrew? (Leta) I don't know you well enough to fill you in on those details. (Aiden)

As the great poet wrote, 'To thine own self be true.'…What? You don't think a Skotos can be literate? I happen to love Shakespeare. Hamlet is one of my faves. (Zeth) I'm not touching that one with tongs and a gas mask. (Jericho)

Xenon? What kind of name is that?" – Nick "The only kind I answer to." – Xenon "Don't eat the help, X. We need him." – Caleb

You don't believe in love, do you? - I think it exists. I just don't think it will ever exist for me.

It's never the enemy without who brings you down. It's always the enemy within.-Nick

To desire to be what one can be is purpose in life. There are no exterior forces. There are only interior forces. Who squanders talent praises death.

The difference between people isn't in their class, but in themselves. Only from the middle classes one gets ideas, and from the common people--life itself, warmth. You feel their hates and loves.

Education (the institution) has now adopted values, attitudes, and practices that make any rigorous understanding of the human self and life impossible.

Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.

This is my life, I think. I am an accumulation of objects.

having someone think of me that way was like discovering a new window in the room i'd lived in all my life.

Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.

The attraction of a life devoted to sensation, pleasure and self would probably wear thin one day, but there was still plenty of time for that yet.

I started sharpening pencils at the census and how that was a difficult time in my life because my marriage was ending and I had quit cartooning and I didn't know what to do with myself.

On the Road that I have taken, one day walking I awaken, amazed to see where I've come, where I'm going, where I'm from.

You don't come into this life wanting to be anything other than happy.

The life I was leading was changing me into someone I didn't even know.

A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part with it, in death, or even imaginatively, in art.

People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's mystery and terror of this thought, I feel this immensity in my soul every second of my life.

You are not what happens in your life. You are the space in which it happens, which is consciousness itself.

You can just say the word "hair" to a woman, and she tells you the story of her life.

I wonder if I am capable of being somebody's sun, somebody's everything. Am I centered enough now to be the center of somebody else's life?