Quotes About Self

We understand now, we've been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.

I don't care whether I really exist or don't, whether I'm real or fictional. What I want right now is to be the person who decides my own fate.

Each of us is born into this life with a light inside us... What's most important is to never let that light go out, because when you do, it means you've lost yourself to darkness. It means you've lost hope. And hope is what makes this world a beautiful place.

Each of us is born into this life with a light inside of us. Some, like yours, burn brighter than others. You don't see that yet, but I do. What's most important is to never let that light go out, because when you do, it means you've lost yourself to the darkness. It means you've lost yourself to hope. And hope is what makes this world a beautiful place.

It was good to be peaceful again, to be one's self; it was wonderful to be unknown in the crowd. (MacLennan 1945, 120)

Live as you want and you shall be at peace.

To be—what? What to be? That is the question.

I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.

Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? ...Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.

The individual is the best judge of what's right for the individual

In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others.

the individual is not accountable to society for his actions, in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, in so far as those concern the interests of no person but himself.

When I say only himself, I mean directly, and in the first instance: for whatever affects himself, may affect others through himself; and the objection which may be grounded on this contingency, will receive consideration in the sequel. This, then, is the appropriate region of human liberty.

There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying — and no means by which anyone else can discover for them what it is for their happiness to do or leave undone.

hayat?m? ba?ka birinin el yaz?s?ndaki bir karaktermi? gibi ya?ad?m.

The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

She thought the old April might be struggling to get through the creature she had become.

Her reasons were as valid now as they had been then, but it didn't stop her from blaming herself

We are each of us like a small mirror in which God searches for His reflection

a quotation from the Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset as an epigraph for Stoner: "A hero is one who wants to be himself.

You get born, and you nurse on lies, and you get weaned on lies, and you learn fancier lies in school. You live all your life on lies, and then maybe when you're ready to die, it comes to you—that there's nothing, nothing but yourself and what you could have done. Only you ain't done it, because the lies told you there was something else.

It occurred to him that he had never before known the body of another; and it occurred to him further that that was the reason he had always somehow separated the self of another from the body that carried that self around. And it occurred to him at last, with the finality of knowledge, that he had never known another human being with any intimacy or trust or with the human warmth of commitment.

He conceived himself changed in that future, but he saw the future itself as the instrument of change rather than its object.