Quotes About Self

The man in a free society must either blame himself (which leads to the melancholia of those plagued by inferiority complexes) or will be bound to accuse imaginary conspiraces of ill-wishers and downright enemies.

Making yourself an outcast was one way to avoid the pain of having it done to you.

I'm loyal to my Clan, Lionpaw told himself. I shouldn't have to prove it. But still, the bitter taste of his lie stung in his throat.

With this life I give you trust. Believe in your Clan and in yourself. Never doubt that you know the right path to take.

Just remember you're not a bird

My new name will keep me warm!

purred. "I know you've been up to something," she meowed. "But I won't pry. All I know is that my apprentice seems back to her old self again. Which is good, because she was no use to any cat while she was moping around like a damp mushroom!

It all seems so permanent, so old and new at the same time. But I wonder if I will ever feel completely new again. Or will I spend the rest of my life feeling like a walking disease?

Even now I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.

Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

Our olfactory bulbs have gathered endless sense patterns of foods high in sugar, fat and salt. These flavour memories have become part of the fabric of our sense of self and are not easily discarded, because the system, as we have seen, is designed 'not to forget'.

Our sense of taste is something that anchors us to the person we have always known ourselves to be.

Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.

Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.

Punishments hereafter are suffer'd by one's self; and the world takes no cognizance whether this God has reveng'd 'em or not, 'tis done so secretly, and deferr'd so long.

A man couldn't jump higher than himself, she pointed out to me. And he couldn't help it if he was a "zoodnik"; one so annoying, he made you itch.

One's self is ever a tenuous thing, discovered only in relinquishment.

Life is full of choices, always and endlessly. It is, I promise you, one of the joys of being alive, even if it doesn't always seem like it when you're frustrated and overwhelmed and being pulled in different directions. But through it all, here's what I hope you will know, and remember, no matter what: It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks you are

that was only because he was mere

Every human life has a secret essence, it's a secret even to the possessor, because you don't know what to make of it.

You can be nobody but yourself. You cannot hide away, nor be lost in any crowd. You carry the glory and the burden of your individuality.

They're into something that is too big to be expressed through their clothes.

There was no such thing as perfection in this world, only moments of such extreme transparency that you forgot yourself, a holy mercy if there ever was one.