Quotes About Self

Recognizing who you are is not the subtext of a life. It's the main point.

No, I'm not choosing him or you. I'm choosing me.

This is the gift of humanity: that it is claimed by the self. None of us...are human unless and until we claim it for ourselves. But nothing can stop that claiming - not the eight million gods nor the spirits nor ghosts. Nothing but ourselves, anyway. And our lives become the poems we were born to tell.

How pure your longing to be anything other than yourself.

When you make a plan to merge your real-life goals with your money, you may discover you have to overcome yourself more than anyone or anything else.

And each one swam in the ocean of herself and her world for her whole life.

The shack, the long hours of darkness illuminated by nothing but candles and moonlight, even the spider—he missed it all. He missed that boy he once was and could never be again. That time when the only life that mattered was his own.

I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.

I wanted deliverance, the loss of myself. The capacity to be inside that music. It was the same power and sensation you feel when a wave takes you up and pushes you somewhere else.

Eu nunca quis ser qualquer coisa, exceto quem eu era.

My parents were from a generation where you tended to your own problems, one where psychotherapy was an indulgence. They both came from families where you kept your problems to yourself and got on with life. If Keller was starting to act a little out of the ordinary, wasn't everybody trying to quote-unquote find themselves in Southern California in the early seventies? Not to mention that psychiatry had a cuckoo's-nest edge of paranoia about it.

There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.

she had started to see that the human self cannot set you free from the problems created by the human self.

I want to point out that the main reason our modern society cannot give us true and lasting self-esteem is that it cannot provide us with a meaningful understanding of what the self is.

I don't have the power to change anyone except myself, and even then I rely on God's strength.

Owing to a poorly defined sense of self, people with BPD rely on others for their feelings of worth and emotional caretaking. So fearful are they of feeling alone that they may act in desperate ways that quite frequently bring about the very abandonment and rejection they're trying to avoid.

If you want to be cool, just be you.

Who says I'm drinking? (Morgan) I guess the bottle drank itself. (Jake)

She had been mistaken - she was only the center to herself, as always, and a small player playing her part in someone else's story.

Perhaps that's why they had been so happy to learn a new tongue in the first place : the self consciousness of it, the effort of it, the grammar of it, pulled you up; a new language provided distance and kept the heart intact.

He tried to keep on the right side of power, tried to be loyal to so many things that he himself couldn't tell which one of his selves was the authentic, if any.

We rework our own memories and reinvent ourselves to suit our tastes and predilections every day.

Escape the safety of the small by taking the risks to become part of something bigger. Your true self demands it. Listen for the timer on the oven to sound—that's when the memory curtain parts, flashing moments that really mattered.

We both fell in love -- with me.