Quotes About Self

A grace-filled attitude is a blessing to everyone—even yourself. — Patricia L. Stebelton

It means, Doug Swieteck, that in this class, you are not your brother.

The ego is a master illusionist, and one of the ways it diverts your attention, from the moment you're born, is by giving you — and this calls for another drum roll, please — problems.

I am not good with others.

the physical world is the only salvation from a mind constantly churning away at itself. At

Don't imagine that we're doing ecological politics to save the world. We're doing ecological politics to save ourselves, to save our souls. It's a personal exercise in character and in manners. It's a matter of etiquette. It's a matter of living right. It's not that the planet requires us to be good to it. It's that we must do it because it's an aesthetic and ethical choice.

Well, then, it's quite simple . . . Christine Daaé shall leave this as she pleases and come back again! . . . Yes, come back again, because she wishes . . . come back of herself, because she loves me for myself! . . .

Then why waste your time here with me? You clearly love him! Your fears, your terror, all of that is still born of love, and the love of the most exquisite kind, the kind one does not even admit to oneself

What Darwin did to nature, Sigmund Freud did to the self.

Every cat is royal," Mani declared in a tone that said he would be mad if you argued. "I am myself.

Every man fights backward—to kill others. Yet his victory comes not in the killing of others but in the killing of certain parts of himself. To show that I understood him, I said, You must have killed all the worst parts of your own being.

Every man fights backward to kill others. Yet his victory comes not in the killing others, but in the killing of certain parts of himself.

For a few minutes it didn't matter what anyone thought of me. I have created something that didn't exist the day before, from a place that didn't belong to anyone but me.

What we are looking for is who is looking

Lange claimed that every photograph was a self-portrait of the photographer.

Your own exploration therefore has to be personalized; you're doing it for yourself, increasing your own store of particular knowledge, walking your own eccentric version of the city.

In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell to others.

There is no man so unsuited for the task of speaking about memory as I am, for I find scarcely a trace of it in myself, and I do not believe there is another man in the world so hideously lacking in it.

The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.

The vanity of the contents" of individual experience is scrutable as an inessential trapping drawn into a matter by vested interests "…since it is at the same time the vanity of the self that knows itself to be vain

In the case where the self is merely represented and ideally presented (vorgestellt), there it is not actual: where it is by proxy, it is not.

The sole work and deed of universal freedom is therefore death, a death too which has no inner significance or filling, for what is negated is the empty point of the absolutely free self. It is thus the coldest and meanest of all deaths, with no more significance than cutting off a head of cabbage or swallowing a mouthful of water

i want to implode— i want to (un)become

I know what I mean by the term I and myself; and I know this immediately, or intuitively, though I do not perceive it as I perceive a triangle, a colour, or a sound.