Quotes About Self

We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.

I am not what happens to me. I choose who I become.

One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is.

I am not what has happened to me, I am who I choose to become.

But again and again I note that the individuation process is confused with the coming of the ego into consciousness and that the ego is in consequence identified with the self, which naturally produces a hopeless conceptual muddle.

In fact it seems to me as if that alienation which so long separated me from the world has become transferred into my own inner world, and has revealed to me an unexpected unfamiliarity with myself.

Sacrifice always means the renunciation of a valuable part of oneself, and through it the sacrificer escapes being devoured.

He could find his soul in desire itself, but not in the objects of desire.

Among the so-called neurotics of our day there are a good many who in other ages would not have been neurotic - that is, divided against themselves. If they had lived in a period and in a milieu in which man was still linked by myth with the world of the ancestors, and thus with nature truly experienced and not merely seen from the outside, they would have been spared this division with themselves.

No culture of the mind is enough to make a garden out of your soul.

You should be he himself--not Christians, but Christ.

Don't think of persuasion as something someone does to us; persuasion is an internal process, not an external one. We persuade ourselves. A predator merely manipulates how things seem to us.

As parent and child advocate Anna McDonnell says, "To have a child is to have the chance to revisit your own childhood and self, and sometimes to make changes that have been needed for a long while." Trained for decades to interact with men in ways that serve the patriarchy, the new mother must answer to no man if doing so might place her or her child at risk.

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

Dac? lumea ar fi fost perfect?, atunci nici eu nu a? fi existat

?tiu c? prin ceea ce scriu nu pot schimba o lume gre?it?, dar pot schimba atitudinea gre?it? a lumii fa?? de mine.

Gradually I came to see that I was just worrying for the sake of choking the flow of positive energy in myself. Worrying was one way I was Upper-Limiting myself.

and finally I found myself, when she lost me.........:(

He showed me how to get lost, and then I showed myself how to get found.

There's a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The other feels like losing a piece of yourself.

You're just trying on different identities, like everyone in those Shakespeare plays. And the people we pretend at, they're already in us. That's why we pretend them in the first place.

But what if Shakespeare? and Hamlet? were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

I don't know who I am. Or maybe I do know who I am and I just don't want to be her anymore.

And the voice grows stronger and stronger, and it's my voice this time and it's asking a question: How does she know?