Quotes About Self

At times you have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

So much had been invested in craft, in externalization, in looking for something solid out there that would fill the void, create a sense of flight, of getting out of the oppression of self. We don't want to do it; we want to be it.

According to conviction, I am not simply what I am doing now. I am also what I have done, and my conventionally edited version of my past is made to seem almost more the real me than what I am at this moment. For what I am seems so fleeting and intangible, but what I was is fixed and final. It is the firm basis for predictions of what I will be in the future, and so it comes about that I am more closely identified with what no longer exists than with what actually is

Autobiographical memory: Memory across the lifespan for both specific events and self-related information.

I have no regrets in my life even the crazy things I've been in. It all made me the I am today and I wouldn't change anything. I'm happy with who I am!

Who Do You Think You Are?

I think I needed to remind myself that wherever my future might take me, it was important never to forget where I'd come from. That sweater is still a portal to another time, another life. Yet it is a part of my happiness today because it is a part of me.

I looked up at the rack of magazines on the wall. There was a handsome man on the cover of one, smartly dressed in a shiny grey suit, striking a dynamic pose. It was an appealing image, but I didn't want to be like him, I didn't want a change of life. I've never not wanted to be me.

He witnessed the persistent operation of self and class interests. He saw how truth could be muzzled, facts distorted, justice mocked in the name of expediency.

Nostalgia, however, is not about being formed as a people; it is about borrowing experiences and moments from the past in order to experience something for ourselves in the present. Nostalgic individuals link themselves to a historically specific time or event in order to serve their personal desires for an experience in the moment. It is all about resourcing the self by consuming the past.

My mother said I broke her heart...but it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? It sells for so little, but it's all we have left in this place. It is the very last inch of us...but within that inch we are free.

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

Love your rage, not your cage.

A PERSON WHO has gained peace of mind has gained everything. To obtain peace of mind, you need to be at peace with the people in your environment. You need to be at peace with yourself, with your emotions and desires. Furthermore, you need to be at peace with your Creator. —RABBI SHLOMO WOLBE (1914–2005)

Behind every self-destructive act is a self-declared victim.

If you don't use your experience, your past is wasted, and you are betraying yourself.

Whatever people say I am, that's what I'm not.

She found in him the peace she so desperately sought but never really found in herself.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it.