Quotes About Self

cada cual se labra su propia suerte, o bien otros, por lo general idiotas, la labran por él.

occurred to him that he was sick of being Quirke, but knew there was no one else he could be. "I

Nearly always, so as to live at peace with ourselves, we disguise our own impotence and weakness as calculation and policy; it is our way of placating that half of our being which is in a sense a spectator of the other.

I may not be quite a real being. Je ne suis peut-être pas tout à fait un être réel.

Circumstances are quite unimportant, character is everything; in vain we break with outside things or people; we cannot break with ourselves. We change our circumstances, but we take with us into each new situation the torment we had hoped to leave behind, and as we cannot shake ourselves any better by a change of scene, we simply find that we have added remorse to regrets and misdeeds to sufferings.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.

What you would seem to be, be really.

We may make these times better, if we better ourselves.

Rigid, combative fanatic that he is, the tightfisted Backson is just too hard on himself, too hard on others, and too hard on the world that heroically attempts to carry on in spite of what he is doing to it.

man who goes around classifying himself as The Superior Animal. "Superior to what?" asked Pooh. "I don't know, Pooh. I've tried to think of something, but I just can't come up with an answer." "If people were Superior to Animals, they'd take better care of the world," said Pooh.

I think, therefore I am... confused.

Ich bin eben kein Erzähler wie du.

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

Unser Gedächtnis ist der wahre Sitz unseres Ich.

I know that I hung On a wind-rocked tree Nine whole nights, With a spear wounded, And to Odin offered Myself to myself; On that tree Of which no one knows From what root it springs.

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

We have learned by now that our beauty does not count as a possession. The only thing we truly own is our legend.

Being a man is bullshit; maybe trying to be a man had been the problem all along. At a certain point you just have to trust someone. Even if it's only yourself.

I do what I want.

For a thinking person, the most serious mental illness is not being sure of who you are.

I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.

Television has to reflect back to you your own sense of security. It also has to mirror your sense of your own decency and your own limitations.

So often, I think, in these relationship comedies, they don't necessarily reflect the people that I know. They don't reflect myself.