Quotes About Self

But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.

the sun is within me and so is the moon

Human nature, essentially changeable, unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it renders everything asunder, the wall, and the bonds and its very self.

Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.

Sie dachte noch an Unkes Maske, als sie einschlief, und im Halbschlaf fragte sie sich, ob nicht jedermann bisweilen eine Maske trug. Eine Maske der Freude, eine Maske der Trauer, eine Maske der Gleichgültigkeit. Eine Maske aus Ihr-seht-mich-nicht.

Change back to your ugly self before I change your face for you," Logan said, Silver Frost.

As soon as I stopped trying to exploit my literary skills to advance my career or enhance my reputation, I found that I was opening myself to the text, could lose myself to the beauty of the words and in the wisdom of the writer. It was a kind of ekstasis, an ecstasy that was not an exotic, tranced state of consciousness but, in the literal sense of the word, a going beyond self.

The unity of God could be glimpsed in the truly integrated self.

Unlike Descartes, who had proved the existence of the self, God and the natural world in that order, Newton began with an attempt to explain the physical universe, with God as an essential part of the system. In Newton's physics, nature was entirely passive: God was the sole source of activity. Thus, as in Aristotle, God was simply a continuation of the natural, physical order.

We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.

You entered into a Socratic dialogue in order to change; the object of the exercise was to create a new, more authentic self.

He claimed gleefully that he had no opinions at all, because he had no self. A poet, he believed, was 'the most unpoetical of any thing in existence; because he has no Identity'.75 True poetry had no time for 'the egotistical sublime',76 which forced itself on the reader:

As the Daoists pointed out, we often identify with our ideas so strongly that we feel personally assaulted if these are criticized or corrected.

The people we hate haunt us; they inhabit our minds in a negative way as we brood in a deviant form of meditation on their bad qualities. The enemy thus becomes our twin, a shadow self whom we come to resemble.

You can get lost, pretending to be someone you're not.

I can't be my own mother

For the analyst it is a source of never-ending astonishment how comparatively well a person can function with the core of himself not participating.

The central inner conflict is one between the constructive forces of the real self and the obstructive forces of the pride system, between healthy growth and the drive to prove in actuality the perfection of the idealized self.

Others are responsible for the trouble I am in—so I am entitled to repair. And what kind of repair would it be, if I made all the effort! Naturally, only a person who has lost constructive interest in his life can argue that way. It is no longer up to him to do something about his life; it is up to "them," or to fate.

A quote hung on the opposite wall: "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

I couldn't fit my whole self into a marriage, no matter who my husband was. There were parts of me that John liked, and different parts for the others, but no one could deal with all of me, So I'd lop some part off, but then I'd start missing it, wanting it back.

Whoever I was before is no one I ever got to know.

Svatko misli o tom kako promijeniti svijet, ali nitko ne misli kako promijeniti sebe.

So I could see that Harlow was fundamentally untrustworthy. Simultaneously, she seemed like someone with whom I could be my true self. I had no intention of doing so and, with and equal and counterbalancing intensity, a great longing for it.