Quotes About Self

Ook in een tijd van vrede betaal je een prijs om trouw te blijven aan jezelf, om oprecht te leven. Dit heb ik geleerd: hoeveel het ook kost, het is de prijs waard. Je kunt geen oppervlakkig of zinloos leven leiden. Betaal de prijs en wees er trots op dat je dat hebt gedaan, dat is mijn idee.

Inside every man there is a potential woman and inside every woman resides a potential man.

You cannot become what you already are.

It is your character, and your character alone, that will make your life happy or unhappy.

I'm not President Bush

It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.

Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.

I had once told myself that after my playing career was over, the two things I would never do were commentary and Seniors tennis. Never say never.

What Svetlana felt for Scott, she said, wasn't a crush, but love. "A crush is about building up the self, and love is about giving from the self. For love, you have to have a self you're secure with, to give to the other person." I silently absorbed the implication that what I felt for Ivan was only a crush, because I didn't have a self I was secure with.

The black man in America as well as the black man abroad has never been able to provide good leadership for himself under Christianity, because Christianity is not the true religion of God. It is a division of religions and uses a division of God

We're all just trying to find our way

she has come to the chilling conclusion that we are all alone in our bodies.

but she has come to the chilling conclusion that we are all alone in our bodies. Irrefutably, immutably alone.

where a person comes from means far less than what she makes of herself.

she's on brand even when she's having a breakdown.

What a person does isn't the same as who a person is.

She has new hair and new boobs, but her insides are still rotten.

It is a mistake to think of courage as something you show to others. True courage is only something you show to yourself.

I like my hand, my blipping brain decides. It's a beautiful hand.

Falling in love often is crucial. You just have to let it nourish you without giving in to it. Why turn it off entirely? Why deaden any part of yourself? Won't death do that for you, and soon enough?

A baby opens you up, is the problem. No way around it unless you want to pay someone else to have it for you. There's before and there's after. To live in your body before is one thing. To live in your body after is another. Some deal by attempting to micromanage; some go crazy; some zone right the hell on out. Or all of the above.

Paul's wanting does not hinge on anything other than the fact of me. This is an excellent trait in a man.

As if they didn't really know that earthly life is only a journey between being born into the body and leaving it at death, whereas the self is the same in every living creature. Only the body can have a 'lineage'. The level on which a person stands is determined only by the level of his own intelligence.

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.