Quotes About Self

Nós é que decidimos se nossa vida será significativa, plena e maravilhosa. E podemos fazer com que ela seja mesmo maravilhosa.

Men's lives are not progressions, as conventionally rendered in history paintings, nor are they a series of facts that may be enumerated & in their proper order understood. Rather they are a series of transformations, some immediate & shocking, some so slow as to be imperceptible, yet so complete & horrifying that at the end of his life a man may search his memory in vain for a moment of correspondence between his self in his dotage & him in his youth.

One man's feeling is not always equal to all life is. Sometimes it's not equal to anything much at all.

The more people I am with, Dorrigo thought, the more alone I feel.

being true to the multitudes within himself that are one and many.

He did not believe in virtue. Virtue was vanity dressed up and waiting for applause.

His fame seemed to him a failure of perception on the part of others.

name is Markos, he said. But call me Marco.

entering the past is a precarious business, since the past strives but always half-fails to make us who we are.

Rien n'est jamais clair car nous disposons tous d'un éventail de moi parmi lesquels choisir.

we search on our own and we search on behalf of ourselves. Whatever

The best thinking says 'the self' is a fiction (I have a piece about that), yet it's a fiction that we all believe, our most intimate experience. Maybe it's nothing more than our tendency to repeat. Maybe we repeat because when we do, we recognize the behavior and the familiarity is comforting. So the self is just the consolation of our tendencies.

Identity is at the heart of repacking.

Hand over your responses to the man who triggers them, and you have already lost the battle for self. Look beyond, and find yourself there instead.

It has been a messy week, and I blame myself as much as anyone else. I feel like a behaviourist who has designed her rat's maze poorly.

We're more than what we do.

Mais souvenez-vous de la faiblesse des armes. Ce ne sont que des extensions. Vous êtes le tueur et le destructeur. Vous êtes complet, avec ou sans elles.

It's no time here. I am time here. I am all the time you need.

The process of identifying a self inevitably involves loss as well as gain. We discover our boundaries, and those boundaries by definition separate us from our fellows. As we clarify our perceptions, we lose our misconceptions. As we eliminate ambiguity, we lose illusion as well. We arrive at clarity, and clarity creates change.

shadow artists must learn to take themselves seriously. With gentle, deliberate effort, they must nurture their artist child. Creativity is play, but for shadow artists, learning to allow themselves to play is hard work.

To kill your dreams because they are irresponsible is to irresponsible to yourself.

Work is a part of my identity but it is not my essence.

To be truly human, we all have the right to make art. We all have the right to write.

Aprendí a quitarme de en medio y a dejar que esa energía vital se expresara a través de mí.