Quotes About Self

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

You have to believe in yourself even when others don't, or you won't achieve anything.

I'm willing to say to anybody that the only thing that stands between me and what I want is between my right ear and my left ear.

Inside you, there's a champion and a loser. There's an angel and a devil. There's a hero and a villain. The question is, which one is going to win today?

Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything to everyone. We must not judge nature by ourselves, but by its own standards.

Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.

I feel that it is possible that I might never have existed, for my self consists in thought; therefore I who think would never have been if my mother had been killed before I had come to life; therefore I am not a necessary being. I am not eternal or infinite either…

Where then is this self, if it is neither in the body nor the soul? And how can one love the body or the soul except for the sake of such qualities, which are not what makes up the self, since they are perishable? Would we love the substance of a person's soul, in the abstract, whatever qualities might be in it? That is not possible, and it would be wrong. Therefore we never love anyone, but only qualities.

Certain authors, speaking of their works, say: My book, My commentary, My history, etc. They resemble middle-class people who have a house of their own and always have My house on their tongue.

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

People talk about egos as if it were objects.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.

In another life, I could have been you, she'd say. Yeah, but then I wouldn't have been the same person in that life. Yeah, that's right. Let's work on it.

There was a missing person inside of myself and I needed to find him.

Life isn't about finding yourself, or finding anything. Life is about creating yourself. And creating things.

Every man's conscience is vile and depraved, you cannot depend on it to be your guide when it's you who must keep it satisfied

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

My life the only thing that has been with me my whole life

You are the only problem you will ever have and you are the only solution. Change is inevitable, personal growth is always a personal decision.

All presidencies are audience driven, but Trump's central audience was often himself.

The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.

Me pregunto si la identidad personal consiste precisamente en la posesión de ciertos recuerdos que nunca se olvidan

Le paradoxe de la condition humaine, c'est qu'on ne peut devenir soi-même que sous l'influence des autres.

La personne dont la mémoire est saine met en lumière quelques objets, quelques mots, quelques évènements qui constituent une représentation claire. Une mémoire traumatique ne permet pas la construction d'une représentation de soi sécurisante puisque en l'évoquant ont fait revenir en conscience l'image du choc.