Quotes About Self

Don't disappear on me, Dylan." I hope I don't disappear on myself.

We should not be less than what we are.

You have to trust in who and what you are. You have to trust in the dream you have been given. You have believed in it until now, haven't you?

What they didn't want to believe, what they tried repeatedly to dismiss, was that whatever good and evil existed in the world came from within themselves and not from some abstract source.

the very greatest satire, I came to think -- the kind that lives forever -- ultimately grew out of a debunking attitude toward the self. To see the world mock-heroically was necessarily to engage in a sort of preliminary self-burlesque. You couldn't take yourself *that* seriously. You were part of it. All the Lilliputian preening and pomposity was, at bottom, one's own.

It is of our nature to exceed ourselves. Overflowing the mesaure is built into what we are. So, too, is rejoicing in this superabundance for its own sake. Yet too lavish an excess, like too vaulting an ambition, may lead us to overreach ourselves and bring ourselves to nothing. Like Lady Macbeh, one can forget that constraints (the demands of kinship or hospitality, for example) are costitutive of the self, not simply obstacles to its expression.

Every person's life is theirs by right. An individual's life can and must belong only to to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave.

Wizard's Tenth Rule Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self.

We all can be no more, or less, than who we are.

Are we our bodies? Is a small person less than a big person, then? If we were our bodies, then when we lost an arm, or a leg, would we be less, would we begin to fade from existence? No. We are the same person. We are not our bodies; we are our thoughts. As they form, they define who we are, and create the reality of our existence.

The only thing you can be is yourself nothing more nothing less

Her green eyes came unafraid to his. The connection was so intense that it threatened to drain his sense of self. He felt that he had always known her, that she had always been a part of him, that her needs were his needs.

Your loveliness is not a mask, layered over a rotten core. It blossoms from the beauty inside.

We all can be only what we are, nothing more, or less.

To love another, you must first love yourself. Love yourself, Magda, so you can love him. Love yourself enough to let your memories of me ease away from closing your heart. Love yourself enough to know that you deserve happiness. - Barracus

Willfully turing aside from the truth is treason to one's self

Don't give up the calling, Magda. Know yourself. Know what you are. Though few would admit it, even those on the council, I truly believe we all need you. - Councilman Sadler

It is the mind that makes the person who they are, --- - Anna to Nicci. (Pg. 245)

If I were you, I'd sue my face for slander.

The thing is, I mean, there's times when you look at the universe and you think, "What about me?" and you can just hear the universe replying, "Well, what about you?"

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Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!

If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself.

This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.