Quotes About Self

One could copy a Self without knowing what it was. Just record it, like a musical passage; the machine which did that did not need to know harmony, structure.

But I feel myself marooned on the island of my self.

If you make your heart into a weapon, you end up using it on yourself.

We are collections of things that we find and experience and value and keep inside ourselves, sometimes knowingly, sometimes unknowingly, and that collection of things is what we finally become.

Alone is current in truth's river, like togetherness. Alone has its own fidelity. But when you navigate that closer view of the shore, it often seems that faith you have in yourself is all the faith there is.

The only kingdom that makes any man a king is the kingdom of his own soul. The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world.

Regret is a ghost of love. Regret is a nicer self that we send into the past from time to time, even though we know it's too late to change what we said, or did. We do it because it's human: a thing of our kind. We do it because we care, drawn by threads of shame that only fray and wither in the sea of regret.

Arrogance is pride's calling card, and crowds everything with Self. Gratitude is humility's calling card, and is the space left inside for love.

Personality and personal identity are in some ways like co-ordinates on the street map drawn by our intersecting relationships.

love makes men big, and hate makes them small.

L'unico momento in cui smetteva di odiarsi era quando il rischio era talmente grande da costringerlo ad agire senza pensare e senza provare nessuna emozione.

Una volta qualcuno mi ha detto che se trasformi il tuo cuore in un'arma, prima o poi finisci per usarla contro di te.

Personality and personal identity are in some ways like coordinates on the street map drawn by intersecting relationships. We know who we are and define what we are by references to the people we love and why we love and our reasons for loving them

If you make your heart into a weapon, you always end up using it on yourself.

Love is connection, and happiness is the connected self.

Someone told me once that if you make your heart into a weapon, you always end up using it on yourself.

She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she...

How poetic you are, she said. I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.

The thing about a mirror is this: The one who stares into it is condemned to consider the world from her own perspective.

This is what fun is like, said Rain, almost to herself.

No, she cried, no, no, I'm not a harem, I'm not a woman, I'm not a person, no.

Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs in society; the old language allows you to keep your sense of 'who you are.' It preserves your identity. With two languages, you have the best of both worlds.

My fashion statement depends on my mood. I am more of a tomboy when dressing up, and I have never worn pink in my entire life.

I'm worried about myself. Glizzy gang, that's it. I'm not worried about no other rappers.