Quotes About Self

Here was an exposure, her soul an unmarked sheet shadowing into distinct shapes under the fluids. Fresh film. Her self, developing.

Such journeys have convinced me that it is not always possible to restore one's boundaries after they have been blurred and made permeable by a relationship: try as we might, we cannot reconstitute ourselves as the autonomous beings we previously imagined ourselves to be.

and time is the stuff of which a self is made.

it is not always possible to restore one's boundaries after they have been blurred and made permeable by a relationship: try as we might, we cannot reconstitute ourselves as the autonomous beings we previously imagined ourselves to be. Something of us is now outside, and something of the outside is now within us.

We need language. We need language to tell stories. We need stories to create a self. We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains. The self we create is a fiction.

he had begun by feeling that under the surface, it was still him, who else could it be, but it was not that simple, and the way people act around you, a change is what you are, who you are, and Oona said she understood, but it was like learning, a foreign language, and when you tried to speak a foreign language, you lost your sense of humor, no matter how much you tried, you could not be funny the way you used to be…

He was aware that alone a person is almost nothing.

one is to look out at the universe and see yourself, the other is to look within yourself and see the universe.

Princeton inspired in me the feeling that my life was a film in which I was the star and everything was possible

It has been said that depression is a failure to imagine a plausible desirable future for oneself.

The self we create is a fiction. On this point, religion and cognitive neuroscience converge. When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as the television produces an image. I think this protagonist, this self, often recognizes that it is a fictional construct, but it also recognizes that thinking of itself as such might cause it to disintegrate.

Suffice to say that theirs had been an unusual love, with such a degree of commingling of identities that when Chris died, erica felt she had lost herself; even now she did not know if she could be found p.104

Suddenly, she was gripped by the idea that if she changed her clothes her entire life would change as well.

Rania's clothes said, This is me! Yasmin's said, I am a stranger to myself.

Il faut se prêter à autrui et ne se donner qu'à soi-même.

Bundan sonraki halim ancak yar?m bir varl?k olacak; ben art?k o ben olmayaca??m. Gün geçtikçe kendimden ayr?l?yor, uzakla??yorum.

We ought to desire whatever is really good for us and nothing else.

Self-preservation is one of the signs of sentient life.

You are who you pretend to be.

Appearance is the most public part of the self. It is our sacrament, the visible self that the world assumes to be a mirror of the invisible, inner self.

This is my clone. He's the most important person in my life.

False humility and morbid introspection are, in fact, the opposite of brokenness, as they reveal a preoccupation with self, rather than Christ.

Isn't it lovely to be lovely me!

Han aprendido a ser lo que no son y lo que son. (de El Sueño ds la Razón Produce Monstruos)