Quotes About Self

To her it seemed an inevitable thing as much a part of herself as her breathing; and yet it appeared transcendent of self, and she looked up and onwards towards her love--for the eyes of the young are drawn to the stars and the spirit of youth is seldom earth-bound." p146

If I could be who you wanted, all the time

You'd kill yourself for regognition, kill yourself to never ever stop. You broke there mirror, you're turning into something your not.

And for a minute there, I lost my self.

A sense of mission lost in ink's jagged outcrops. I was trying to tell myself what I must have known before in a form I wouldn't recognize at first.

Todo lo que nos rodea desde la cuna es un espectáculo pero la conciencia de ser espectáculo sólo se produce tras observar aquel cuerpo desnudo que por primera vez es observado desde el lado de la desnudez.

He was recovering his normal self amazingly under the inspiring stimulus of conflict.

You could become anyone, including your real self.

Sometimes in life you know the right path, but you need to leave it as your ego becomes more important than it.

I feel as if I am the eye of my own storm, still, like the mermaid, at the center of my own chaos.

When I think of the future, I never see myself moving forward in time. I actually see time moving backward towards me.

The most visible joy can only reveal itself to us when we've transformed it, within.

It's because we have little faith that we look within instead of without.

Play the game, but don't believe in it – that much you owe yourself … Play the game, but raise the ante, my boy. Learn how it operates, learn how you operate.

To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

The only true gift is a portion of yourself.

Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself.

They reckon ill who leave me out;When me they fly, I am the wings;I am the doubter and the doubt,And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.