Quotes About Self

You your best thing.

You your best thing, Sethe.

Don't nobody have to die if they don't want to. - Pilate

Se libérer était une chose, revendiquer la propriété de ce moi libéré en était une autre.

Whatever's burning in me is mine

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you gotta give up the shit that weighs you down.

The mind of him that knew her own. Her story was bearable because it was his as well—to tell, to refine and tell

The mind of him that knew her own. Her story was bearable because it was his as well—to tell, to refine and tell again.

Let me tell you right now the one important thing you'll ever need to know: Own things. And let the things you own own other things. Then you'll own yourself and other people too.

How'd you get rid of her?' 'Killed her. Then I killed the me that killed her.' 'Who's left?' 'Me.

Scary things not always outside. Most scary things is inside.

clarity about who one is and what one's work is, is inextricably bound up with one's place in a tribe—or a family, or a nation, or a race, or a sex, or what have you. And the clarity is necessary for the evaluation of the self and it is necessary for any productive intercourse with any other tribe or culture.

I am interested in what prompts and makes possible this process of entering what one is estranged from—and in what disables the foray, for purposes of fiction, into corners of the consciousness self off and away from the reach of the writer's imagination.

Feelings trap us in the self, Tony dear. Doing a thing because you feel wonderful about it—even a work of charity—is in the end a selfish act. We perform the work not to feel wonderful but to know and love the other. It's the same with your romance. You may not feel your love, but God is still your loved one, your other.

they were increasingly perceived as restrictions upon the self-expression and freedom of the individual.

En palabras de Sartre: «Ser libre no es hacer lo que uno quiere, sino en querer hacer lo que uno puede».

True happiness comes from within. When we stop looking for social proof and trust in ourselves, a certain magic happens. You are the most important person in your life, and, we are one.

A dream… it's something you do for yourself, not for others

It's your life. Do what you want with it.

Don't forget.../ ...When you gaze into the darkness.../ The darkness gazes back into you.

I have a grasshopper and haphazard mind y'know, a brain that listens to all sorts of things as well as itself.

I have crossed over, and that childhood is as far away and strange as something that happened to someone else in a land beyond the sea. That boy is not me, though I am what he became.

Become who you want to be while you can enjoy it. Don't put off doing the work of becoming who you want to be. Waiting will not make it easier, and time is short.