Quotes About Self

There's something in everyone only they know.

El lector es un crítico con una ocupación importantísima: complacerse a sí mismo.

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.

Truth is the trial of itselfAnd needs no other touch,And purer than the purest gold,Refine it ne'er so much.

I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

My experience of my body was her experience once removed, which meant my body was dissolved, and that's all I'd ever really wanted from my body, such as it was.

It's like leaving a version of myself alone with the pain, abandoning him.

The lie described my life better than the truth,' I added. 'Until it became a kind of truth.

why do you think poseurs pose? Because they want to be invited to the dominion of the real, an almost magical zone of unselfed sensation, and they know their very desire for it disqualifies them. Consider that, the next time you cluck your tongue at some awful, grandiose fake. Dude just wants to feel.

A self needed to spill out sometimes, a body should show evidence of what the hell went on inside it.

identity compromises (relationships) may result...

In Germany, they treated you with yourself. You were guilty of hiding you own cure inside of you, you selfish fuck.

What if by sheer repetition we become the person we most often pretend to be? Does that mean there is no authentic self? Are we made of habits, compressed by time, like layered rocks?

When we've been travelling around I've often thought: Oh, this would be a good place to be, and that would be an excellent place to live. And yet, after I've seen everything I've decided that home, wherever that may be, is the place for feelings of peace. And if I can be at peace with myself then that is the most important thing. I think travelling teaches one that.

I kept looking forward the answer to things. I kept looking, and I never saw, and I became lost. I lost myself, lost my own reality.

Su un'isola non si dimentica mai il mare, il che significa che non si dimenticano mai i propri limiti. Eppure, entro questi limiti, ogni uomo è re.

I still considered myself a conservative.

My experiences in Washington turned me off from political parties pretty much completely. I view myself now as a moderate independent, and I think that's where I'll stay.

Okay, forget about the disrespect, facts don't care about your feelings. It, turns out that every chromosome, every cell in Caitlyn Jenner's body, is male, with the exception of some of his sperm cells. … It turns out that he still has all of his male appendages. How he feels on the inside is irrelevant to the question of his biological self.

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot.

You say you're a different man But you know that's a lie The truth is gonna set you free And so am I

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

Just take this as a warning. Know that there's always a price for not being yourself.