Quotes About Self

of any achievements open to you, the one that makes all others possible is the creation of your own character—that

The mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain.

To be able to say I love you, one has to be able to say I

of any achievements open to you, the one that makes all others possible is the creation of your own character.

People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they're reflecting too. You know, like the senseless infinity you get from two mirrors facing each other across a narrow passage. [...] Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes.

Why, child, such things are to be decided only by you and my son.

Durante siglos la batalla de la moralidad fue librada entre quienes proclamaban que la vida pertenece a Dios y quienes decían que pertenece al prójimo, entre quienes predicaban que la bondad es el autosacrificio en favor de unos fantasmas celestes y quienes predicaban que el bien es el auto-sacrificio en favor de los incompetentes de la tierra. Pero nadie vino a decir que vuestra vida os pertenece y que el bien reside en vivirla.

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.

Your ego is your strictest judge.

And only by living for himself was he able to achieve the things which are the glory of mankind. Such is the nature of achievement.

What is it that you're all doing here?" "Living.

His vision, his strength, his courage came from his own spirit. A man's spirit, however, is his self. That entity which is his consciousness. To think, to feel, to judge, to act are functions of the ego.

Soy yo quien te ha destruido desde el principio, ayudándote.

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

Si identificáis vuestras creencias, hallaráis en ellas una triple condenación: hacia vosotros, hacia la vida y hacia la virtud, en la grotesca conclusión a que habéis llegado al creer que la moralidad es un mal necesario.

Seeking God—and finding itself.

Los defensores del alma humana estaban preocupados por los sentimientos de sus semejantes; los defensores del cuerpo tuvieron como solo objetivo el estómago, pero ambos se unieron para luchar contra la mente. Sin embargo, nadie, ni el más ruin de los seres humanos, puede renunciar totalmente a su cerebro.

Usted no quiere que piense. Cuando fuerza a un hombre a actuar contra su placer y a su juicio, es su pensamiento el que desea suprimir. Anhela convertirlo en un robot. Pues bien, obraré de acuerdo con esto.

Your ego is the strictest judge. -Howard Roark in his speech at his trial.

Your ego is the strictest judge. -Howard Roark to Gail Wynand

Wearing the hijab has given me freedom from constant attention to my physical self. Because my appearance is not subject to public scrutiny, my beauty, or perhaps my lack of it, has been removed from the realm of what can legitimately be discussed.

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive, to protect some aspect of myself that was now in constant retreat.

You yourself told us that in the final analysis we are our own betrayers, playing Judas to our own Christ

The price one pays when choosing exile is the loss of all that defines you as an individual. The only thing that makes this immense loss tolerable is the discovery of a self you did not know existed - of a true independence. That is the real gift of America, not its fabled wealth and prosperity.