Quotes About Self

There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.

Cixous implores women to write, to seize and make words their own, to take risks, to rid themselves of fear and caution, to open up the possibility of loving with all of themselves, not desiring the other through lack, but desiring all of the other with all of oneself. That one self is not a simple sum of her/his parts but a multiplication of difference.

Dating is really hard because everyone puts on a front. It's really difficult to see who is who, so it is important to be yourself.

Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. Think about it carefully! Don't go off somewhere else! . . . just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are. —Kabir (mystic poet, 1440–1518)

When you're growing up, it takes a long time for you to realize that there's something different about you. On one level, you know there's something strange, but on another, yourself is the only thing you ever knew.

True happiness comes from within, and is not dependent on external circumstances or material possessions.

Allowing the momentary hijacking of our sense of self by random acts of fear or hate—call it guerrilla racism—is bad for us. Literally. The high rates of hypertension, stroke, and heart disease among African-American males bear brutal witness to the problem. Do not volunteer yourself as a casualty. Let those with the illness, those who caricature and misrepresent you, be the ones consumed.

He who grows smaller and smaller in God's grand scheme of things, until he is invisible to all but himself.

memory is what the brain does, how it composes us and allows our past to help determine our future. In no small part memory makes us who we are

If you're planning for consequences, in some sense, you are empathizing with your "future self.

The sense of self informs every relationship or decision we make as we move through life. And when children don't feel respected by the decisions of their parents, their beliefs about how they are valued are crushed.

The sense of self informs every relationship or decision we make as we move through life. And when

Whenever we force ourselves to conform to our ideals at the expense of our own satisfaction, we assure the Other's jouissance.

As you think, so shall you become.

The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.

All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

A conditioned mind is never a free mind.

Where some people have a self, most people have a void, because they are too busy in wasting their vital creative energy to project themselves as this or that, dedicating their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like rather than actualizing their potentiality as a human being

The key to liberation is within. — Each man binds himself; the fetters are ignorance, laziness, preoccupation with self, and fear. He must liberate himself, while accepting the fact that we are of this world, so that "In summer we sweat; in winter we shiver.

Where some people have a self, most people have a void, because they are too busy in wasting their vital creative energy to project themselves as this or that, dedicating their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like rather than actualizing their potentiality as a human being, a sort of "being" vs. having—that is, we do not "have" mind, we are simply mind. We are what we are.

Art is the expression of the self; the more complicated and restrictive a method is, the lesser the opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom.

With all the training thrown to the wind, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere, anybody knows where, the art of Jeet Kune Do attains its perfection.

The more we value things, the less we value our selves.