Quotes About Self

I can fulfill the expectations of others and yet fail my own; I can win every honor and yet feel I have accomplished nothing;

We should not sacrifice self to others nor others to self; we should discard the idea of human sacrifice as a moral ideal. Relationships based on an exchange of values are superior to those based on the sacrifice of anyone to anyone.

Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.

When we do not express ourselves, do not assert our being, do not stand up for our values in contexts where it is appropriate to do so, we inflict wounds on our sense of self. The world does not do it to us, we do it to ourselves.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so in exorable as one's self!

Denn kein Mensch kann für längere Zeit sich selbst das eine und der Menge ein anderes Gesicht zeigen, ohne am Ende in Verwirrung zu geraten, welches das echt ist.

He had spoken the very truth and transformed it into the veriest falsehood. And yet, by the constitution of his nature, he loved the truth and loathed the lie, as few men ever did. Therefore, above all things else, eh loathed his miserable self.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Non c'è uomo che a forza di portare una maschera, non finisca per assimilare a questa anche il suo vero volto.

Qué calabozo es más obscuro que el propio corazón? ¿Qué carcelero es más inexorable que uno mismo?

Non c'è uomo che a forza di portare una maschera, non finisca per assimilare a questa anche il suo vero volto.

It wasn't so much that I was afraid of the place itself, but I was afraid of the creatures who masqueraded as people. And I became afraid of myself for stirring up such hatred in others.

Effort has nothing to do with the changes to structure and physiology that develop as a consequence of the intensification of individuation.

Because I love somebody I don't trust anymore, I've lost all faith in myself. I bet it's like this when parents abuse their children. Kids lose their trust in the parents they love, but still accept them, so they end up not trusting themselves anymore. Check it out, Worm. This is what I mean by something irreparable.

How many were the years of my life that went by before my body, and my self became really mine, to do with them as I wished? How many were the years of my life that were lost before I tore my body and my self away from the people who held me in their grasp since the very first day?

But I feel that you, in particular, are a person who cannot live without love. Yet I am living without love. Then you are either living a lie or not living at all.

Forgiveness of self is all forgivenesses starts

I think about religion and how, once we because our own saviors, our own gods, most faiths became irrelevant. What must it have been like to believe in something greater than oneself? To accept imperfection and look to a rising vision of all we could never be? It must have been comforting. It must have lifted people from the mundane, but also justified all sorts of evil. I often wonder if the bright benefit of belief outweighed the darkness its abuse could bring.

definition. How can she not see that when you are defined, you lose the ability to define yourself?

You are only one boy, with one voice...If you keep trying to be a choir, you'll lose that voice, and then who will hear you?

Do we exist because others perceive our existence, or is, indeed, our own affirmation enough?

Eventually your body will learn the alliances it has to make with itself,' Kenny had said - as if Cam was a factory full of strike-prone workers, or worse, a clutch of slaves forced into unwanted labor.

I don't want to be empty on the inside.

We are not the same beings we once were. So then, if we are no longer human, what are we?