Quotes About Self

No-one loves another More than he loves whatever another within may haveThat is part of one's self

Then suddenly you're left all alonewith your body that can't love youand your will that can't save you.

You're in the mirror, I am your image...

I love you" begins by I, but it ends up by you. ("Je t'aime" commence par Je, - Mais il finit par toi.)

you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours.

As he drew close to it another figure came towards it from the opposite side with equal footsteps. He saw that it was his own figure, his very self, and in silent terror, compelled by what force he knew not, he advanced—charmed as the bird is by the snake, mesmerised or hypnotised—to meet this other self.

A lie twice believed is self decieved

But my identity belongs to me. Only I can surrender that.

Sometimes the hardest person to forgive is ourselves.

No I'm not," I whisper to myself. "I'm a fucking evil psychopath.

she is searching for a rational analysis of who I am, which is, of course, an impossibility: there … is … no … key.

I'm having a difficult time containing my disordered self.

The Left had become a rage machine, burning itself up: a melting blue bubble dissolving in on itself.

Es el mal algo que uno es? ¿O es algo que uno hace?

An informed appraisal of life absolutely require(s) a full understanding of life's arena–the universe. … By deepening our understanding of the true nature of physical reality, we profoundly reconfigure our sense of ourselves and our experience of the universe.

as if my own identity hardly matters because it has been subsumed by what I can only describe as a feeling of gratitude for the gift of experience.

Schrödinger raised some eyebrows (and lost his first publisher) when he invoked the Hindu Upanishads to suggest that we are all part of an "omnipresent, all-comprehending eternal self," and the freedom of will we each exert reflects our divine powers.

Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back.

The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not . . . yet, I occurred. —PAUL ATREIDES, Memories of Muad'Dib

Do we derive our identity, our worth, from our families or from ourselves? —REVEREND MOTHER RAQUELLA BERTO-ANIRUL, Sisterhood Training Manual

words of others cannot rob us of our inner peace and joy unless we give them the power to do so.

So you can keep going. You can stay young. There's no inevitable law of diminishment: everyone who fades fades for his own reason.

Your life only gets better when you get better.

You are fully responsible for everything you are, everything you have and everything you become.