Quotes About Self

Authentic play comes from deep down inside us. It's not formed or motivated solely by others. Real play interacts with and involves the outside world, but it fundamentally expresses the needs and desires of the player.

From this I came to understand that identity is not a set of fixed attributed, the unchanging essence of the inner self, but a constantly shifting process of positioning. We tend to think of identity as taking us back to our roots, the part of us which remains essentially the same across time. In fact, identity is always a never-completed process of becoming - a process of shifting identifications, rather than a singular, complete, finished state of being.

When any political movement loses all sense of self and has no unifying theory of government, it ceases to function as a collective rooted in thought and becomes more like fans of a sports team.

Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.

You're the only one who can decide what's best for you.

Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think.

You try to keep life simple but it never works, and in the end all you have left is yourself.

It is not to diffuse you that you were born of you your mother and father, it is to identify you...Walt Whitman

But perhaps this is all to the good. Perhaps it's best to live with the possibility that around any corner, at any time, may come the person who reminds you of your own capacity to surprise yourself, to put at risk everything that's dear to you. Who reminds you of the distances we have to bridge to begin to know anything about one another. Who reminds you that what seems to be—even about yourself—may not be. That like him, you need to be forgiven.

This was all of it, no doubt, the strange passing feeling that had come to me in the boat. Age. Vanity. The impossibility of accepting the new versions of oneself that life kept offering. The impossibility of the old version's vanishing.

We all need to feel understood and connected to ourselves and to others.

autobiography is probably the most monstrous act of conceit that exists.

In the looking, I found the cities within me.

For in this country, which of all civilizations has been devoted to the most exquisite consideration of the interior life—of the form, structure, and purpose of the self—we are individually multiple, severally alone.

Love exposes you, makes you vulnerable and kills the personas you built on top of your true self.

yet underneath it all it's not in conscience another self hidden not in shame because sarcastically been on rushing from its hiding place and taken under its known this tale this proud, this boastful braggart of circumstance and dream that something calls life

There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.

No matter how dilapidated, scarred and mutilated your body, I have always found you beautiful, for it is the soul beneath I seek.

Because you believed in me, I figured I was honor-bound to believe in myself.

He even experimented on himself, hammering a sleeve into his own skull. Once this was accomplished, it was then possible to insert electrodes and inject chemicals "through small needles anywhere in the brain.

She wasn't petty, she has never been petty, has never had enough self-possession, or possessed enough self, to afford pettiness, because petty is a way people are who have something to spare.

I am a person. I am not a soap opera.

The first thought that I had about really trying to get sober was, 'Man, I could do a lot of good in the world. I can lead by example and just be this heroic recovery guy.' And that's just a bad reason to get sober. You can't get sober for anybody's benefit, let alone the world at large. You really got to do it for yourself.

Sobriety has opened my mind and unlocked parts of me that I didn't even realize existed.