Quotes About Self

Before finding the one you have to find your furtre

our feelings are signals that can provide us with the information we need to take care of ourselves appropriately

For Alice, of course, the measure of how you held up in the face of a life-threatening illness was not how much you changed but how much you stayed the same, in control of your own identity.

All of us show many faces to the world. No one shows her true face all of the time. To do that would be dangerous, for what is seen can also be known.

This is not the true meaning of jihad," he spoke into the starless dark. "Jihad is the holy war we have within ourselves. That is the meaning below the surface. Our internal struggle for purity," he said with emphasis, pressing his forefinger into his chest. "It is the war of ascendance over our basal instincts. It has absolutely nothing to do with others. The only thing we can have control over is ourselves.

To whom does he owe ultimate re- sponsibility? Since Romanticism, we have expected the artist not to celebrate God, king, family, and established values but to break taboos, to explore his or her deepest, most socially forbidden self.

Nature is forever playing solitaire with herself.

El artista no hace su arte para salvar a la humanidad, sino para salvarse a sí mismo. Todo comentario benévolo de un artista a este respecto no será sino echar una cortina de humo, ocultar el rastro sangriento de su asalto contra la realidad y los otros.

The most difficult battles in life are those we fight within. - Old Chinese Proverb

Who am I supposed to be again? Just be yourself. But who am I?

So much of being a woman is telling lies

When you live a lie, you damage the soul.

If I didn't define who I was and what I wanted, then someone else would.

Always remember, others may hate you—but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

Maureen closed her eyes. Listen to me, Earl. It's yourself you ought to be thinking about. Life goes by so darn fast, every wasted moment is a crime. One blue eye opened and fixed on him. And every crime is a wasted moment.

Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.

Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.

If anything like this is true, then we would be denied even our self-congratulatory distinction of being the only animal that makes self-congratulatory distinctions.

Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship. With

We are, you and I, at least one of the ways that the Universe knows itself

To know me is not to love me. At

You don't have the proper amount of faith in yourself.

If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature's larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.

Assassin, you are a mystery / To me, I say to my reflection sometimes