Quotes About Self

It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.

You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.

It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

Do you think its possible to live without wanting to put your name on your paintings? To belong to a group so securely you don't need to rise above it?

I am telling you what I'm telling you. Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you are good, bad things can still happen. And if you are bad, you can still be lucky.

I understood that the terror of my recurring dream was not about losing just vision, but the whole of myself, whatever that was. What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

I was a skeleton with flesh and clothes and thoughts.

I'm always looking at the dialectic between the truth we believe exists outside ourselves and the truth we invent for ourselves.

On Sunday morning I put on jeans, changed into a denim dress, then back into jeans again, feeling stupid. I can get into a mood where I annoy myself to no end. At the moment when I got completely fed up and stopped caring, I had on jeans and a white cotton shirt and silver earrings, so that's what I wore. And yes, I'll admit it, nice underwear.

Being a peacock is not the only way to hide yourself, Frida. A pigeon can hide.

So much energy squandered in the unwinnable war waged by woman against the life-form she is.

Here, all we can ever be is everything we've been.

The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes

One has only a life of one's own.

And then while we all still waited I understood that the terror of my recurring dream was not about losing just vision, but the whole of myself, whatever that was. What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

First, I got myself born. The worst of the job was up to me.

To amuse my depraved Ada self

Now I know, whatever your burdens, to hold yourself apart from the lot of more powerful men is an illusion.

As if it's only by hurting yourself that you can be true.

Everything changes when you start to emit your own frequency rather than absorbing the frequencies around you, when you start imprinting your intent on the universe rather than receiving an imprint from existence.

Mass beliefs in the power of outside authorities are firmly entrenched in your psyche; they are strong and old, and somewhat like a redwood forest they too can be felled very, very quickly, raising many questions about the truth of who you are and why you place your trust outside yourself.

once that each of us is the author of our own lives? That we are responsible for what we are? For the deeds, both good and bad, that we do?

Per quanto uno si sforzi di vivere una sola vita, gli altri ce ne vedranno dentro altre mille, e questa è la ragione per cui non si riesce ad evitare di farsi del male. Da Senza Sangue

I read Reinhold Niebuhr's Moral Man and Immoral Society, where Niebuhr talked about how the baser self has to deceive the better self to get the better self's buy-in for behavior it would never otherwise agree to.