Quotes About Self

Nora Ephron quote: 'Be the heroine of your own life, not the victim.

What you look like is just one part of who you are - but it's not all you are.

Love is selflessness, Self is lovelessness.

Ones language is a spiritual location. It houses your soul. If you were born in America all essential communication, your deepest conversations with yourself, will be in English. ... Your English is the principal instrument of your humanity.

I am simply a human being, more or less.

There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger…. It never said a thing except I want, I want, I want!

There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future. I

Thus the greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself. From

I keep trying to forget, but I must remember. And gather the scattered continents of a self, once whole. Before they plant flags and boundary my destiny. Push down the watered mountains that blemish this soiled soul before the valleys of my conscience get the best of me. I'll need a passport just to simply reach the rest of me. A vaccination for a lesser god's bleak history.

Living for ever would be like marrying yourself, with no possibility of a divorce.

Oneness cannot be achieved just between God and self; rather, oneness involves God, self, and others, and the world around us.

Naming is power, you know. That's what they say at least. My parents exhausted universal power in first creating me and then in naming me. They created for me an identity whether I wanted one or not.

I'm feeling much better now that I've found my mind.

Like long lost love abandoned in forgotten letters, you lose yourself in others and dream their dreams, become their aspirations. When you look in the mirror, you see a black, blank picture of Them staring back and you vow not to, before giving in once again.

I was looking for a way to be someone else,'I said.

Do you have a name?" asked Jean. "Lots. All of them lovely and none of them true," she replied.

It means, ah, death-love, death-desire. It's hard to translate. It means you have moods where you absolutely want to destroy yourself. Not as some self-pitying idle notion, either. As a certainty!

How you live is truly a choice. What you're going to do and who you are going to do it with, those are choices only you can make. That was my "aha" moment.

Think of your face as a mask. That's what it is, after all. A mask. Facing outward. Worn from the day you were born. Slave to your every mental command. Seen by everyone you meet. But never by you. Open its eyes now. Just think it. The mask will obey.

Believe in himself, to chart his course and stick to it

But is that what life is like for everyone? Can a person truly make a life of their own, or can they only continue the culture into which they are born?

Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?

Your personality - the real you inside - was the price of beauty.

I've been fighting to be who I am all my life. What's the point of being who I am, if I can't have the person who was worth all the fighting for?