Quotes About Self

Just being in a room with myself is almost more stimulation than I can bear.

I am my enemy Mowing me over, And towing the light away.

I'm sorry, darling, but it's the only face I've got.

Are these soldiers really our enemy, or only the worst reflection of our own selves?... We made them. We have to unmake them, not just defeat or kill them.

I believe that there is truth to be found inside every person, but that very few people find it because it is dark inside, and deeply hidden, and the trees grow thickly.

I guess it's not the place I want to escape. It's my place in this place.

I don't know where I've gone—where I've gone.' The world was cracking around me. I was so small. A flood of shame spilled from my eyes. 'I've lost myself—I'll never get out. Where's my island? Where's my island gone?

But we're all characters in our own stories, Iggy.

Because I couldn't trust anything, especially not myself. How could I be lying there next to him with these snakes of doubt worming around in my heart? It was not honest.

Even now I cling to the idea that amour fou, curdled as it was, still had me in its grip. I want to believe this. If you do not act out of some form of love, then who are you in the world?

Stoller's direction offer proof that gender identity (I am a girl, I am a boy) is the primary identity any human being holds—the first as well as the most permanent and far-reaching. Stoller

It's just me.

Playing dress-up begins at age five and never truly ends.

Bir erkek, fil ya da tav?an olmak istemez. Dü?ünebilseydi fil de bir tav?an ya da bir erkek olmak istemezdi. Kendisi olmak isterdi çünkü dünyadaki en iyi ?eyin kendisi oldu?una inan?rd?. Bir bak?ma kendisinin dünya ve tüm bir hayat oldu?una. Kendiniz oldu?unuz hayat saf hayatt?r. Ba?ka bir hayata imrenerek, özlemle bak?yorsan?z, hayat?n?z?, kendinizi kaybetmi?siniz demektir.

If you look with envy or longing or inferiority-feeling at any other kind of life, you have lost your life, lost your Self.

Living wasn't easy for you, was it? You couldn't enter your own life, but you could be someone else. You weren't you, then; you were safe.

It is a simple thing, a name. We are given one, we grow in to it, we bear it. Simple for the rest of creation.

She wasn't even sick, not really. She'd just had a bad reaction to a vaccine. What had been a theory at school in the morning had solidified into fact, at least within my own self.

Usually her reserve kept people -- men especially -- at a distance, but Sam was different. She felt at ease with him, comfortable. More herself. How was it possible to be more yourself when you were with another person?

Care flows naturally if the "self" is widened and deepened so that protection of free Nature is felt and conceived as protection of ourselves…Just as we need no morals to make us breathe…[so] if your "self" in the wide sense embraces another being, you need no moral exhortation to show care…You care for yourself without feeling any moral pressure to do it.

Man shies away from nothing as from a rendezvous with himself—which makes the entertainment industry what it is.

Her spirit alternated constantly between spells of lyricism and spirit possession, making no philosophical distinction between the self alone and in relation to others, and unable to achieve the solace of a religious indifference.

Love everybody like you love yourself, and you've got to be full up with you to love yourself properly first.

You don't have to want things outside you to fill up the gaps inside you. You don't leave bits of you hanging around on objects in shop-windows, in catalogues or on advertising hoardings. Wherever you go you take your whole self with you, you don't leave bits lying around to get stamped on, you're all of a piece