Quotes About Self

Here's the fundamental problem: group identity can be fractionated right down to the level of the individual.

the willingness of the individual to stand up for him or herself protects everyone from the corruption of society.

After all, if you're not the leading man in your own drama, you're a bit player in someone else's—and you might well be assigned to play a dismal, lonely and tragic part

Una persona inauténtica sigue percibiendo las cosas y actuando de formas que su propia experiencia ha demostrado que son falsas. No habla con su propia voz.

You can decide for yourself what truth there might be in that concern after reading this book. :)

It is difficult to conclude anything from this set of facts except that people appear to love their dogs, cats, ferrets and birds (and maybe even their lizards) more than themselves. How horrible is that? How much shame must exist, for something like that to be true? What could it be about people that makes them prefer their pets to themselves?

The worst of all possible snakes is psychological, spiritual, personal, internal.

You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world. You are, therefore, morally obliged to take care of yourself.

Tengo la razón, la tengo siempre, y estoy equivocada.

Los nombres terminan conformando a las personas y quien deja escapar el suyo también abraza otro destino.

He is in possession of his life who is in possession of his story." —Carl Jung

The image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror.

Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.

A man gradually identifies himself with the form of his fate; a man is, in the long run, his own circumstances.

Yo soy quien libre me vi, yo, quien pudiera olvidaros: yo soy el que, por amaros, estoy, desque os conocí, sin Dios y sin vos y mí.

I'm in prison because I'm a free man, because I found it necessary to exercise my freedom, because I accepted this necessity.

Always breathing-in this pre-life, exhaling this post. Something goes away, something comes back. But through you. Leaving no trail but self. As trails go not much of one. But patiently you travel it. Your self.

He who does not really feel himself lost, is lost without remission; that is to say, he never finds himself, never comes up against his own reality.

Let others think what they like: for me, the culmination of life consists of a pure and subtly dramatic passion.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

nuestra vida es en todo instante y antes que nada conciencia de lo que nos es posible

Viver é se sentir fatalmente forçado a exercer a liberdade, a decidir o que vamos ser neste mundo. Nossa atividade de decisão não descansa um instante sequer. Mesmo quando, desesperados, nos abandonamos ao que vier, estamos decidindo não decidir.

Io sono io e la mia circostanza.

I am I and my circumstance; and, if I do not save it, I do not save myself.