Quotes About Self

Platón afirmaba que «cada uno es la causa de su propia elección»; y

Y si escribir es, en el libro, hacerse legible para todos, e indescifrable para sí mismo?

Y, sobre todo, lo que aún es más difícil: saber quién realmente pudo ser.

Quand on voyage avec quelqu'un, me dit-il, on a toujours tendance à trouver ce qui nous entoure étrange, tandis que si on voyage seul, c'est toujours soi qui est étrange." (Le voyage vertical)

Una relación íntima entre dos personas es un instrumento de tortura entre ellas, ya sean personas de distinto sexo o del mismo. Todo ser humano lleva dentro de sí una cierta cantidad de odio hacia sí mismo, y ese odio, ese no poder aguantarse a sí mismo, es algo que tiene que ser transferido a otra persona, y a quien puedes transferirlo mejor es a la persona que amas.

escribir es dejar de ser escritor

Con solemnidad o no, el narrador de Carta breve para un largo adiós utilizaba siempre su yo, probablemente porque su formación era europea.

God has entrusted me with myself.

Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo

Only an idiot believes he can write the truth about himself.

It's always been my hope, as an actor, to reveal only what is relevant about myself to the work.

And he always stood up for the underdog--never realizing that because of his size he was one himself.

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Qué es un hombre? Un hombre es lo que él puede ser. ¿Y qué es eso? Sólo la percepción espiritual lo puede decir. Contesta

the unfoldment of his own innate divinity (salvation, in the truest sense of the word)—and that is by bringing about a radical and permanent change for the better in his own consciousness.

sostiene que la libertad no es hacer lo que queremos, sino convertirnos en lo que debemos ser. Este

I deny the fact that when I kill time, time is actually killing me

A man by himself is in bad company.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.

i can become a new woman every day until i like the woman i become, then i can become her for a while, if not forever!

uses a method for organizing that centers on three nested narratives: the story of self, the story of us, and the story of now. He teaches organizers entering into any setting to start not with policy proposals or high concepts like justice but with biographies—their own, and those of the people they hope to mobilize. What are the stories you tell about yourself? Why do you tell them that way? How can we find connections across our stories of origin that build trust and common cause?

The song you write may be beautiful, the research you conceive may be beautiful, but you are the real beauty in life.

The reasons one gives for an action to others and to one's self are certainly inadequate. One can give a reason for everything. In the last resort one acts from a level which remains hidden from us. So one can only ask God to judge us and to forgive us. . . . At the end of the day I can only ask God to give a merciful judgement on today and all its decisions. It is now in his hand.