Quotes About Self

Hay partes del cuerpo que uno lleva consigo mismo durante toda la vida, pero que nunca posee realmente.

If you won't be you...who will?

How can you be somebody else's savior, when you can't be your own?

I doubt women will be surprised that men write more often about the loss of face and the loss of power, while women tend to write about the loss of self.

manipulation is the art of making another person's spirit dance for personal amusement, and only through honoring oneself do we become strong enough to refuse to dance.

Meeting the "self" activates the transformation of human consciousness

forgiveness is a complex act of consciousness, one that liberates the psyche and soul from the need for personal vengeance and the perception of oneself as a victim.

allowing the Divine to awaken part of your spirit that contains the essence of what you are capable of contributing to others as well as to yourself.

What kind of woman am I? she asked. My kind. He grinned.

voice, not Conway's. Abby

Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, In need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, Keep us in thrall to ourselves, concerned with our surfaces. [...] So primp, preen, prink, pluck, and prize your flesh, All posturings! All ravishment! All sensibility! Meanwhile, have you used your mind today?

We all of us somehow caught. We born this way or that way and we don't know why. But we caught any how. I was born Berenice. You Born Franky. John Henry born John Henry. And maybe we wants to widen and bust free. But no matter what we do we still caught. Me is me and you is you and he is he. We each one of us somehow caught all by ourself. I'm caught worse than you is. Because I'm Black, because I'm colored.

After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.

I wish I was somebody else except me.

Solange ich glücklich war, war ich ein ganz guter Mensch.

Once told by an interviewer, Everybody would like to be Cary Grant, Grant is said to have replied, So would I.

I'll take her no mistake no mister no missed her no mist no miss no me no.

A transformation or shift in one's conception of the cultural self can be difficult to explain to those who have not experienced a sudden shift in identity. (p. 44)

when cultural stories remain hidden and untold, they tend to disappear, at least temporarily, leaving one with a void of information about the self. (p.38)

There is no advice that I can give you, you will just have to trust yourself that when the time comes, you'll make the right decision.

It's not the job of this town to make me feel happy. It's not this town´s fault that I don't feel I fit in. It doesn't matter where you are in the world, because it's about where you are in your head. It's about the other world I inhabit. The world of dreams, hope, imagination, and memories. I'm happy up here, and because of that I'm happy up there too

Things won't change unless you change you.

If you have to say something, you have to say it now. And now more importantly, you have to do it yourself. It's your life, you're the one who dies, you're the one who loses it.

That is who I am supposed to be, how I am identified and recorded for all time, but I am neither of those things