Quotes About Self

Besides, if I am truly immortal, I am my own grandchild, my own descendant, my own dynasty. I am not obliged to live on through what I pass down to others.

The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable.

Okay, it is what it is and I am what I it, but its isness and my itness seem to be stretching the meaning of is and it.

Granny and me alone on Judgment Day and wonder if there is some wider meaning there, some cryptic message from a hidden dimension, from the Other, from the Over Self. Or if it was simply that heaven didn't want us and hell was afraid we'd take over.

The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable. But to achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. So

If he weren't a stick his own self, I'd say he had a stick up his butt.

Tunnel vision is caused by an optic fungus that multiplies when the brain is less energetic than the ego.

the notion of life implies a certain absoluteness of self-enjoyment

There's just one thing in this life that's better than happiness and that's freedom. It's more important to be free than to be happy.

When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Your truly happy people, which is to say, your people who truly like themselves, they don't think about themselves very much. Your unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwellin' on himself and start payin' attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form o' self-indulgence.

It is not a heart: light, heavy, kind or broken; dear, hard, bleeding or transplanted; it is not a heart.

The usual way in which we try to become like God is first to eliminate the God who reveals himself in human form and reimagine God as the god I want to be, invest this reimagined god with my own god fantasies, and then take charge of the god business.

If we can't arrange our own happiness, it's a conceit beyond vulgarity to arrange the happiness of those who come after us.

I sure did live in this world.' 'Really? What have you got to show for it?' 'Show? To who? I got my mind. And what goes on in it. Which is to say, I got me.' 'Lonely, ain't it?' 'Yes. But my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you.

I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.

Hate does that. Burns off everything but itself, so whatever your grievance is, your face looks just like your enemy's.

There is no such things as race," said Morrison. Racism is a construct; a social construct. And it has benefits. Money can be made off of it. People who don't like themselves can feel better because of it. It can describe certain kinds of behavior that are wrong or misleading. So [racism] has a social function. But race can only be defined as a human being

so you protected yourself and loved small

Bit by bit, at 124 and in the Clearing, along with others, she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

We become ads for ourselves under the pressure of the spectacle that flattens our experience of the public/private dichotomy.

Grownups don't pay it much attention because they can't imagine anything more majestic to a child than their own selves and so confused dependance for reverence.

The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.

Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.

You your own best thing. -Paul D.