Quotes About Self

We betray ourselves, don't we? In the end, we have no need for enemies.

I had not yet learned that we make our own destiny, it springs from within us. It is not the outward events but what we allow ourselves to make of them that count.

Better to live in the truth, however terrible, than to murder your true self by living a lie.

Poetry is the great stimulation of life. Poetry leads past possession of self to transfiguration beyond gender. Poetry is redemption from pessimism.

Originality is the discovery of how to shed identity before the magic mirror of Antiquity's sovereign power.

On the delusional theory of consciousness

She wanted an Angel of Music . . . an angel who would make her believe in herself at last. I'd been the Angel of Doom for the khanum. There was no reason in the world why I could not be the Angel of Music for Christine. I couldn't hope to be a man to her, I couldn't ever be a real, breathing, living man waking at her side and reaching out for her . . . But I could be her angel' -Erik

I am and not: I freeze and yet am burned, Since from myself, my other self I turned.

Sometimes he felt like two people inside the same skin, and he wasn't always entirely sure which of them was real.

Trust others to do the right thing. If you can't do that, trust yourself to survive what happens.

You're only responsible for yourself, Jess. And that's the only person you can control. Other people will either get it or they won't but you can't define yourself by their opinions.

She had drunk from the cup of self-deceit which can poison your soul, so you never again see the truth.

They loved their children, but parenting was all-consuming sometimes, to the point where you felt yourself barely hanging on to the you that didn't lose it just because your child spilled milk.

Yes, Boss17 would be pleased. She was perfect. Chapter 13 FOR THE UMPTEENTH TIME, KENDALL told herself she should

Grace isn't just for other people. Maybe you didn't get that memo.

C'mon. Just a plate of food, and I promise, you don't have to talk to anyone. You can just perch yourself in the corner, eat a plate of ribs, and glower." She winked. "You know, be your usual self.

We do not become different people as we age; we just add layers of experience onto who we already are.

It is much harder to pretend than it is to simply be who you already are.

memories have no power but what I allow them.

I learned that if you love a boy you are o longer free. The boy may become more important than your own self and if it is so, you will find trouble there. The first time you are hurt in your heart, you do not forget the lesson. It stays forever.

I learned that if you love a boy you are no longer free. The boy may become more important than your own self and if it is so, you will find trouble there. The first time you are hurt in your heart, you do not forget the lesson. It stays forever.

By the time you are old enough to pick up a book like this one, you have learned it: the world is not your world, and you don't have another. (p.107)

When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself

My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.