Quotes About Self

But the fatigue of physical dysfunction, I came to recognize, is as different from normal sleep deprivation as COVID-19 is from the common cold. It was not caused by needing sleep, I thought, but by my body's cellular conviction that it needed to conserve energy in order to fix whatever was wrong. The feeling erased my will, the sense of identity that drives most of us. The worst part of my fatigue was the loss of an intact sense of self.

I am what I wanted and I want what I am.

It isn't you,' he says, as though you're to be comforted by the irrelevant role you play in your own life.

Oliver Biddle was who you became if you couldn't find anyone to love except your parents.

You have to shrink yourself to fit into this little life with him.

She was a stranger in her own life, a tourist in her own body.

Sometimes she was even sure that she had ever really existed.

She could not trust herself to hope—but without hope, she realized, she had no reason to go on.

My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.

And while we are living, we receive no punishment but what we put on each other or that we make for ourselves

Freedom is having a choice to make, to be who we want to be.

Codependents: don't trust themselves. don't trust their feelings. don't trust their decisions. don't trust other people. try to trust untrustworthy people.

The only person you can now or ever change is yourself. The only person that it is your business to control is yourself.

We're so careful to see that no one gets hurt. No one, that is, but ourselves.

I reacted to other people's feelings, behaviors, problems, and thoughts. I reacted to what they might by feeling, thinking, or doing. I reacted to my own feelings, my own thoughts, my own problems. My strong point seemed to be reacting to crises—I thought almost everything was a crisis. I overreacted.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. —AGNES REPPLIER, The Treasure Chest

Do not trust fear. Do not trust panic. We can trust ourselves, stand in our own truth, stand in our own light. We have it now. Already. We have all the light we need for today. And tomorrow's light shall be given to us then.

The only limitations on you are the ones you've placed on yourself.

attraction to and tolerance for the bizarre, other-centeredness that results in abandonment of self

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. —AGNES REPPLIER

3. Stop looking for happiness in other people. Our source of happiness and well-being is not inside others; it's inside us. Learn to center ourselves in ourselves.

Enough is enough. It's time to stop running. I miss myself. I want to get comfortable in my own skin. I want my soul back. I want to go home.

Who we are right now is okay.

That's her secret, I suppose. Everything that happens to her she's proud of. She makes it special by it happening to her.