Quotes About Self

When I found out I was pregnant, my mother said, 'Dont separate your life, the life that youre going to make with this child, from the things that you are and what you want to do.'

You get to do what you want to do – if that's what you want to do.

Of what use to get what you want if you must become someone else to get it.

Who gets to decide what you want?

The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.

To be supportive of myself, I have to go with what I want to do. I started acting and I was so mesmerized.

Am I going to be able to be the person I want to be in this relationship?

You've decided to love me for eternity, I'm still deciding who I want to be today.

Inside many of us is a small old man who wants to get out.

Being a businessman, you want to invest your time and your heart into growth and a legacy, and sometimes it's about going over there and getting it. But you don't have to lose yourself.

Do not trust anybody but yourself. If people want to help you, fine. Put it on paper and understand exactly what every word says.

You can say anything you want to say. I'm just Bill Foley.

Am I an ego on legs? No I am not. Do I want to be seen out there all the time saying everything? No, I don't.

You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.

I'm so lonely I don't even want to be with myself anymore.

I'd been conflict-phobic my entire life because I didn't want to lose my inner core of peace.

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.

Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.

I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.

It's not a real name," she says. "Not one that he's carried with him always. It's one he wears like his hat. So he can take it off if he wants.

I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.

There is a kind of syndrome of girls who want to dirty themselves. They have the power. They control everything.

You identify with your self. You have a personal history. You have commitments. There are things that you want to experience and other things that you want to avoid.

People in great need were quick to find blame in themselves, quick to assume the burden of guilt for things they in truth had no control over and could not hope to change. It was, she had begun to understand, integral to the very nature of belief, of faith. A need that could not be answered by the self was then given over to someone or something greater than oneself, and this form of surrender was a lifting of a vast, terrible weight.