Quotes About Self

Nefretinin kendine ait bir varoluÅŸu olduÄŸunu biliyordu, her zaman onun içinde, anatomisindeydi; insan nas?l ki safrakesesinin sadece ÅŸiddetli bir bulant? an?nda, dilindeki tat tomurcuklar?na ac? safra yükselirken deÄŸil de hep orada olduÄŸunu bilirse, o da bunu öyle biliyordu.

We dress the way we think.

The cultural tools people employ to make sense of displacement are the means by which migrants guard against that shattering or implosion of self and attachment. Without these tools, the disruption of migration leaves disintegration in its wake that neither the individual immigrant nor the community of immigrants can bear.

Thomas Merton said, "To be a saint means to be myself.

Why... didn't you make me good enough... so that you could've loved me?

A] person is formed from a continuum of words and actions over time and cannot be reduced to a fixed "self" that is either "enlightened" or "unenlightened.

I am empty only in the sense that there is nothing fixed or intrinsically real at the core of my identity as a person. Recognition of such emptiness therefore liberates one to change and transform oneself. And this, it seems, is precisely what the Jungian theory of individuation describes, yet in a language that is affirmative rather than negative.

Man's mastery over nature, then, is a mastery which has less and less control over itself. . . . A world where techniques are paramount is a world given over to desire and fear; because every technique is there to serve some desire or fear.2 —Gabriel Marcel

The emptiness of self, for instance, is not the denial of individual uniqueness but the denial of any permanent, partless, and transcendent basis for individuality. The anguish and uncertainty of human existence are only exacerbated by the preconceptual, spasm-like grip in which such assumptions of transcendence hold us.

When my self is no longer the all-consuming preoccupation it once was, when I see it as one narrative thread among myriad others, when I understand it to be as contingent and transient as anything else, then the barrier that separates "me" from "not me" begins to crumble. The conviction of being a closed cell of self is not only delusive but anesthetic. It numbs me to the suffering of the world.

Gotama did for the self what Copernicus did for the earth: he put it in its rightful place, despite its continuing to appear just as it did before. Gotama no more rejected the existence of the self than Copernicus rejected the existence of the earth. Instead, rather than regarding it as a fixed, non-contingent point around which everything else turned, he recognized that each self was a fluid, contingent process just like everything else.

I am who I am not because of an essential self hidden away in the core of my being but because of the unprecedented and unrepeatable matrix of conditions that have formed me. The more I delve into this mystery of who I am (or what anything is)

I hate you. I love you. You're a freak, you know that? Everyone says so. They always have. I'm trying not to be.

He realized that if he didn't leave, it would never be his life. It would be theirs.

Si le gusto a alguien,quiero que sea mi verdadero yo el que le guste,no lo que piense que soy

No puedes sólo sentarte y poner la vida de todos por encima de la tuya y pensar que eso cuenta como amor. Simplemente no puedes. Tienes que hacer algo.

Happiness is not this thing for other people. It is for you. It is for me. It is for all of us. We all get an ending, Whether or not it's happy is up to us.

Hundreds of babies who were born to hundreds of parents. Every one of them the hero of their own life.

In the hallways, I see the girls wearing guys' jackets, and I think about the idea of property.

Maybe he'll be different from who he was and always is.

In my experience, you will truly serve only what you love because service is love made visible. If you love your friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money, you will serve your money and, if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself and you will have only yourself. So no winning. Instead, try to love others and serve others and hopefully find others that love and serve you in return.

Your ability to get along with others flows naturally from how well you are getting along with yourself from your own internal peace and harmony which is itself a function of your peace and harmony with God and your family.

There is no future in a job. The only future is inside oneself. We look inside rather than outside. We become producer rather than consumers of other peoples' production.

For years I had been living in a kind of eternal present, shutting off all the past which disagreed with me, letting through only the most censored memories. As for the future, nothing was thought out. It simply happened, like the turning of the page. In filling my life with books, I was ... surrounding myself with other people's stories in order to obliterate my own.