Quotes About Self

anyone who identifies him/herself publicly as a "change agent" is self-convicted of incompetence. Changes will certainly occur as a result, but they are not likely to be the changes desired.

don't be self-conscious - other people are completely unaware of you and more concerned with how they appear ...

the abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror - we all have it - that shadow self - that dark heart...

we each harbor a shadow self with shadowy motives and murky desires...

each person is required to ask, 'what is my authority?' - on what do you base your decisions? if it's yourself, then you are without excuse...

it's easy to express romantic love - harder to manage daily love - to forgive failings close to feelings - to divide self from soul...

if you want your own distinctive voice, you first have to become someone...

who is the hunchback in my comic opera, but me? I'm crippled on the inside and unable to make the gestures of love...

there is no map of the soul because we make it up as we go...

I would be annoyed if I were any more in tune with modern sensibilities. I was shaped differently. The world in which I grew up was Texan and Southern, and it had many, many failings. I think I've gotten rid of most of the bad things in myself from that earlier age, but I don't adjust to the way things are progressing now.

But things can change, that's what I told myself. Mistakes can be undone, wrongs righted. That's what brought me home. Hope.

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.

You stand in your own light.

suggestion of some cognitive scientists that there is no unified self at the core of each individual; the self is just a byproduct of the interaction of a host of cognitive functions.

the struggle is not with others, but within us, to do what we are called to do

Lo que era no es lo que soy, -se dijo, Y lo que soy no es aun lo que puedo ser

Quiero seguir siendo como soy, no como era».

A menudo, lo que nos amenaza de verdad y cuesta más de combatir es algo que procede de nuestro interior.

Lo que era no es lo que soy —se dijo—. Y lo que soy no es aún lo que puedo ser.»

La identidad es una capa de experiencia

Lo que era no es lo que soy. Y lo que soy no es aún lo que puedo ser.

Pero sólo por la noche, después de que el mundo se ha oscurecido, aparece nuestro yo real.

A man without a past, he thought, can write any future.