Quotes About Self

In the past, my voice was my enemy.

The most important part of ourselves is the mind, and it has been rather inaccessible.

Non-binary is a term used by some people, myself included, who feel that their gender identity falls outside the tradition boxes of man or woman.

It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living by the fundamental creed of the Catholic Church, which is service to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone - including our enemies.

You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone's brain.

The power of makeup is incredible, but the power of you is cray cray.

I don't think about my legacy, if indeed, I have one.

Any nation has the right and will indeed defend herself.

Having long suspected that there was something alive in there, running the place, separate from everything else, absolutely individual and independent, we've celebrated by giving it a real name. My self.

I've got Indian looks, but there is nothing in my background.

BUILD CLIMATE MITIGATION INTO YOUR PROJECT No task is more urgent today than mitigating the climate crisis—not only for the common good but for your organization, yourself, and your family.

KNOW THAT YOUR BIGGEST RISK IS YOU It's tempting to think that projects fail because the world throws surprises at us: price and scope changes, accidents, weather, new management—the list goes on. But this is shallow thinking.

Davanti alla porta di lei gli sembrava di non dirlo al vento, per la prima volta dopo tanti mesi: «Sono sempre lo stesso, Fulvia. Ho fatto tanto, ho camminato tanto... Sono scappato e ho inseguito. Mi sono sentito vivo come mai e mi sono visto morto. Ho riso e ho pianto. Ho ucciso un uomo, a caldo. Ne ho visti uccidere, a freddo, moltissimi. Ma io sono sempre lo stesso.»

Only those ideas which least belong to us can be adequately expressed in words.

But if metaphysics is to proceed by intuition, if intuition has the mobility of duration as its object, and if duration is of a psychical nature, shall we not be confining the philosopher to the exclusive contemplation of himself?

This perceiving, active being is what I call mind, spirit, soul, or myself. By which words I do not denote any one of my ideas, but a thing entirely distinct from them, wherein they exist, or, which is the same thing, whereby they are perceived; for the existence of an idea consists in being perceived.

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.

The major problem with the notion of transformation is that it forever hangs on to some form of self and never lets it go. It perpetuates the notion that self gets better and better, more and more divine, when in truth, the divine increases in proportion as the self decreases or falls away. The notion of a divinized self only increases or inflates the self; for those who buy into this notion, the journey may well end in total disillusionment. Offhand

A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.

I am Atalanta. I belong to this mountain, to the clan of mountain bears." "I am Meleager," he said. "I belong to Atalanta.

On est comme des ordinateurs qu'on programme et déprogramme à volonté. Nous nous conditionnons même à nos réussites et à nos échecs futurs.

an explainer of my own unique journey

Jealousy and envy are just like anger," she said. "The most hurt you're doing is to yourself.

I don't need a church. I carry my church with me at all times, inside my own self.