Quotes About Self

Em nós trazemos sempre o que fizemos, E do que fomos faz-se o nosso ser.

There comes a moment when the soul must have no guide but the voice within it.

Perbuatan-perbuatan kita menentukan siapa diri kita sebesar sebagaimana kita menentukan perbuatan-perbuatan kita.

forgiveness is actually for yourself: until you forgive, you carry the burden and the weight of the grief.

If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.

I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.

And I, uh, I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I feel that I'm just the same person as I always was.

I'm a true believer that unless you're Prince or Stevie Wonder - and even Prince is showing that he needs help - not everybody can produce themselves. I'm definitely not that person.

There is a part of 'Wonder Woman' inside me and inside every woman, kind of that secret self that women share. We are all caretakers, giving birth, caring for our children and companions and loved ones.

I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.

Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

'Queen of Katwe' is an absolutely true story. And it's wonderful. But it's not about saviors. Your only savior is yourself - but yourself with your community. It's never alone. You have to have someone who believes in you.

Many have a vague idea that they must make some wonderful effort in order to gain the favor of God. But all self-dependence is vain. It is only by connecting with Jesus through faith that the sinner becomes a hopeful, believing child of God.

Most of what we say about ourselves is a wonderful piece of storytelling.

I think that Trinity's just the greatest character that I could ever play. I don't expect to ever play another woman that wonderful. I have a lot of Trinity in me, for sure.

I always had a belief in myself, and I started wondering if it was founded.

Life's about ego. So for someone to talk about my ego, as they are writing their piece about my ego, I'm wondering what they're doing with their ego?

I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.

In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.

I don't like the word 'balance.' To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family... as long as we think of these things as conflicting, we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration... of work, family, self, community.

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

Language and identity are so fundamentally intertwined. You peel back all the layers in terms of what we wear and what we eat and all the things that mark us, and in the end, what we have are our words.