Quotes About Self

This idea finds its echo today in the conception that nothing can be created without the sacrifice of something very important, usually one's own being. Every vocation implies the supreme sacrifice of the self.

There are no windows within the dark house of depression through which to see others, only mirrors.

My words aren't only words. They're pictures and tears and imperfect offerings of love and self-inflicted shots to my brain.

I went back to my medical information. I learned that my body would think it was pregnant [on the pill]. There would now be yet another part of myself that would not know what was really going on.

Veig que el món s'enrotlla sobre si mateix, com onades sense mar ni riba que les contingui.

Istina je: bio sam prili?no sam ali osamljenost još uvijek nije dokaz da ?ovjek nema pravo

When we forget that, we unwittingly reduce God's ways to our ways and God's thoughts to our thoughts. Our hearts become factories of idols in which we fashion and refashion God to fit our needs and desires.

You knew me. You knew that person, but you don't know the person I'm trying to become... You are not your past!

I am every age, up to my own.

He was near tears, 'Who do I blame?' he kept asking me. 'There is no God.I can only blame myself.' The Reb's face tightened, as if in pain. That, he said, softly, is a terrible self-indictment. Worse than an unanswered prayer? Oh yes. It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody's out there.

One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I want for myself.

No, I say. You knew me. You knew that person, but you don't know the person that I'm trying to become.

You only have peace when you make it with yourself.

There are some mornings when I cry and cry and mourn for myself. Some mornings, I'm so angry and bitter. But it doesn't last too long. Then I get up and say, 'I want to live..' 'So far, I've been able to do it. Will I be able to continue? I don't know. But I'm betting on myself I will.' Koppel seemed extremely taken with Morrie. He asked about the humility that death induced.

But hurting ourselves to inflict pain to others is just another cry to be loved.

Are you trying to be as human as you can be?

In all the time he was sick, Morrie never held out hope he would be cured. He was realistic to a fault. One time, I asked if someone were to wave a magic wand and make him all better, would he become, in time, the man he had been before? He shook his head. "No way I could go back. I am a different self now. I'm different in my attitudes.

Kita mengira kebencian adalah senjata untuk melawan orang yang melukai kita, tapi kebencian adalah pisau melengkung. Dan kerusakan yang kita lakukan pada orang lain, kita lakukan pula pada diri sendiri.

We often think things are about us when they are not.

Accept who you are and revel in that. You have to find what's good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now.

But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.

This was the story he told himself, and the stories we tell ourselves long enough become our truths.

If everything is really meaningless?then we should create the meaning for ourselves.

A major problem for victims of all empires is to identify so strongly with this role that they become double victims: victims of the empire, and victims of themselves.