Quotes About Self

Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.

As he went about to the other workrooms he realised that every painting was a self-portrait even when it was a still life or a scene over the roofs of Paris; for no man ever pictured anything but himself, his core, the things that he was basically. With every brush stroke the artist was mercilessly exposed: he could not conceal nothing, he could pretend to be another person, to believe in other values, but in the end he would fool no one.

You are the only one responsible for your own wants.

You're surrounded by people in the waking period, and you feel their eyes and their hopes on you. You can't stand up under it. In the sleep period, you're free.

And Elvex said, I was the man. - In Robot dreams (Short story)

Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed.

No one is so modest as not to believe himself a competent amateur sleuth...

Remember, to be truly effective, it is not necessary to hold the mind under a tight, controlling barrier which to the intelligent probe is as informative as a naked mentality. Rather, one should cultivate an innocence, an awareness of self, and an unselfconsciousness of self which leaves one nothing to hide.

Siempre han confiado en la autoridad o en el pasado, nunca en sí mismos. Sus

He was detecting what we—he and I—knew he would detect—that we were not our own masters. And I didn't want to know!

Control of self and society has been left to chance or to the vague gropings of intuitive ethical systems based on inspiration and emotion.

Oh, men have no compassion on themselves!

My mother has a saying: 'One is none.

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.

En medio del invierno aprendí por fin que había en mí un verano invencible.

Word by word I have created the person I am and the invented country in which I live.

Comprendió que se estaba muriendo en vida porque para él la libertad era más importante que el amor.

Todos somos héroes de nuestra propia historia.

male vanity goes deeper and is costlier.

Is there anything more vain than an autobiography?

Cada persona nace con una sola gracia y la felicidad consiste en descubrirla a tiempo...

l'età di per sè non rende nessuno migliore e più saggio, semplicemente accentua ciò che si èsempre stati.

Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

Me acuerdo de lo que me quiero acordar y no me acuerdo de lo que otra gente quiere que yo me acuerde.