Quotes About Self

Like most men who are not Brad Pitt, I could do without the sight of my own nudity.

It is the real power of a book - not what is on the page, but what happens when a reader takes the pages in, makes it part of himself.

My students should be afraid: choosing what kind of work you'll do to a great extent means choosing who you'll be.

She spent the entire day at the house, debating the issue with herself. First, she watched TV. British television seemed to consist mostly of makeover shows. Garden makeovers. Fashion makeovers. House makeovers. Everything relating to change. It seemed like a hint. Change something. Make a move. She

it's not cool, Vi said. You've been waking people up, you're damaging stuff we like, that we use. We all have issues, dude. Get over yourself. I thought learning was a game, David said. Why is no one having fun but me?

What greater wealth is there than to own your own life and to spend it on growing?

What I've got to offer you is your life.' 'It's not yours to offer...

And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: I.

But, you see, it's not what you do that matters really. It's only you. Me what? Just you here. Or you in the city. Or you somewhere in the world. I don't know. Just that.

To say 'I love you' one must first know how to say the 'I.

By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man—every man—is an end in himself, he exists for his own sake, and the achievement of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer--and that is the way he has acted through most of history." --Atlas Shrugged

I would die for you, but i wouldn't live for you.

If, to him, love was a celebration of one's self and of existence—then, to the self-haters and life-haters, the pursuit of destruction was the only form and equivalent of love.

But I don't think of you.

it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. It is the unsacrificed self that we must respect in man above all.

You are so lost to your higher self that you would resent me for my achievements, rather than celebrate them with me, sexually?

Your self is your mind; renounce it and you become a chunk of meat ready for any cannibal to swallow.

No one can tell men what they must live for. No one can take that right - because there are things in men, in the best of us, which are above all states, above all collectives!

For the word 'We' must never be spoken, save by one's choice and as a second thought. This word must never be placed first within man's soul, else it becomes a monster, the root of all the evils on earth, the root of man's torture by men, and of an unspeakable lie.

Whatever road I take, the guiding star is within me;

This god, this one word: I.

By refusing to say 'It is,' you are refusing to say 'I am.

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose." Book-