Quotes About Self

You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.

I have always had a relationship with clothes.

The solution to entrapment in the narcissistic hothouse of self is to not relinquish autobiographical writing, but to expand the self by bringing one's curiosity to interface with more and more history and the present world.

He believed that Galileo was wrong when he imagined an Earth that revolved around the sun. In his heart of hearts, Peter knew that the sun that was slowly rising over his city revolved around him.

I told you growing starts from the inside first, honey, and in that way, you've been growing like wildfire.

What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first.

Your body and your mind are, together, your primary country of allegiance. As a feminist, you must know - and know how to defend - your country and its boundaries.

Comradeship arises from the mirrorage stage of vortex void into symbolic self.

If you think, 'I breathe,' " said Shunryu Suzuki, the Zen teacher, "the 'I' is extra.

I swam to shore, therefore i am

Like language, books serve to express us, but also to complete us, furnishing, through a variety of excerpted and reworked fragments, the missing elements of our personality.

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The true science and study of man is man.

The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.

When you're underwater with goggles on, a couple of your senses are taken away, and it becomes this purely visual thing. It's just you and yourself.

Ever since I can remember, I drew, and visual arts have been my main way to express myself. I like dancing, although I've never done that very seriously. It's something I'd like to explore more.

My cinema is an extension of myself. A sort of life-testimony of my vital experience, with my few virtues and my numerous limitations.

If the nation is not capable of preserving itself and reproducing, if it loses it vital bearings and ideals, then it doesn't need foreign enemies - it will fall apart on its own.

I also take vitamins because I think when you take care of yourself on the inside it makes a big difference in your skin.

We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.

I pretend to be calm, it's not a word in my vocabulary.

I think that our work and our music stands on its own without this knowledge about our identity around it. But I also think that we very consciously decided not to hold back that part of ourselves, but to be very vocal about who we are, kind of what experiences we've had in life, and how we identify.

Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is.

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.