Quotes About Self

Vermutlich sind wir uns alle ähnlicher, als wir wollen. Denke ich an meine Eltern, die, im Krieg geboren, unfähig waren, etwas wie Liebe zu entwickeln, verstehe ich, was aus mir geworden ist und warum. Ich habe nie einen Kern gehabt, etwas, das macht, dass ich mich als Teil der Welt begreife, ohne Angst, darin unterzugehen, mich aufzulösen.

What it boiled down to is the strength to be able to say, 'I don't want to think about it.' Thinking negatively is the result of guilt and insecurity... You are the person who makes yourself happy. You're the person who makes yourself sad. It's much easier to feel better when you keep remembering that." [-p.481, "Caesar's Hours, My Life in Comedy with Love and Laughter", by Sid Caesar with Eddy Friedfeld, 2003]

Our only purpose in life is to fulfill our potential.

We'll probably never save our souls - but hell, at least we'll get our hair sorted.

You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

I am what I have become

I am the me I choose to be.

You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them, however difficult that may be.

century: "As man imagines himself to be, so shall he be, and he is that which he imagines.

I'm a woman. I have a right to change my mind.

I'm a woman. I have a right to change my mind.

The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn't exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so.

And my last words shall be these – that it is only from the inmost silences of the heart that we know the world for what it is, and ourselves for what the world has made us.

No one believes in his own death.

Where id was, there ego shall be.

You are not who you think you are.

You are the gift that only you would have to give.

Writing is a luxury or, with luck, a rainbow of colors. It is my lifesaver when the water of the river or the sea tries to drag me under. When you want to die you fall in love with yourself, you look for something touching that will save you.

What matters is what we write: that is what we are, not some puppet made up by those who talk and enclose us in a prison so different from our dreams.

I once swallowed my difference without water on an empty stomach.

Art leads you back to the person you were after the world took you away from yourself.

The comfort zone is always the most desirable place to be. But in settling for comfort, there is a price to pay and it comes in the death of ambition, of hope, of youth and the death of self.

When our empathy is switched off, we are solely in the "I" mode. In such a state we relate only to things or to people as if they were just things. Most of us are capable of doing this occasionally