Quotes About Self

I love people. I love my family, my children ... but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

I am the miracle.

We are shaped by our thoughts. We become what we think.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. Theind is everything. What we think we become

The mind is everything. What you think you become. You yourself, as much anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

What we think, we become

You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself

My name is Anne; spelled with an e at the end." said Anne to Mrs. Thomas.

Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being. In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me.

In no Paradise myself, I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad...How can'st thou endure without being mad?

You is sharks, sartin; but if you gobern de shark in you, why den you be angel; for all angel is not'ing more dan de shark well goberned.

Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air. Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being. In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me.

Me parece que mi cuerpo no es más que las heces de mi mejor ser. De hecho, que se lleve mi cuerpo quien quiera, que se lo lleve, digo: no es yo. Y por consiguiente, tres hurras por Nantucket, y que vengan cuando quieran el bote desfondado y el cuerpo desfondado, porque ni el propio Júpiter es capaz de desfondarme el alma.

I'm demonaic, I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself!

Acredito que meu corpo não passa de um abrigo para meu melhor ser. Na verdade, que leve meu corpo quem quiser, pois ele não é quem eu sou.

Call me Ishmael

In the midst of the personified impersonal, a personality stands here. Though but a point at best; whencesoe'er I came; wheresoe'er I go; yet while I earthly live, the queenly personality lives in me, and feels her royal rights.

One of the central identity problems that has to be worked out during a career transition is deciding on the story that links the old and new self. Until that is solved, the external audience to whom we are selling our reinvention remains dubious, and we too feel unsettled and uncertain of our own identity.

Somewhat melancholy happiness of offering an object one likes, and that one had bought for oneself!

He does mischief to himself who does mischief to another, and evil planned harms the plotter most.

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

Anyone in pursuit of art is responding to a desire to make visible that which is not, to offer the unknown self to others.

You can't be free if the cost of being you is too high.