Quotes About Self

we are the reflection of the idea of ourselves that we receive back from our kind.

What makes it so—that I am Carlo—and that my hair and my nails and my feet are considered part of me, as well as my anger and my dreams, and that I consider myself to be the same Carlo as yesterday, the same as tomorrow; the one who thinks, suffers, and perceives?

I am this long ongoing novel. My life consists of it. It is memory that solders together the processes scattered across time of which we are made. In this sense, we exist in time. It is for this reason that I am the same person today as I was yesterday. To understand ourselves means to reflect on time. But to understand time, we need to reflect on ourselves.

There is not an 'I' and 'the neurons in my brain'. They are the same thing. An individual is a process: complex, tightly integrated.

A warrior doesnt know remorse for anything he has done, because to isolate ones acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil is to place an unwarranted importance on the self.

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

When you are fully passionate about your market, your products and your services, your heart, belief in yourself, and your enthusiasm will naturally command higher prices, and people will happily pay more to be around your energy.

What you are is God's gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God.

Oh mother. I didn't know that when you died, I'd never be me anymore.

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, only you.

You obliterate my central sun and i hate and fear you for it . . . every moment with you is fraught with my anxiety of failure to be who you want me to be, to say what you want me to say . . . You don't remember you have a daughter. You never see my pain. You see yourself.

I only wish to be gone. Therefore, I AM.

You can't find your life, or your peace, in the middle of a bezillion eyes staring at you.

True self-confidence is "the courage to be open—to welcome change and new ideas regardless of their source." Real self-confidence is not reflected in a title, an expensive suit, a fancy car, or a series of acquisitions. It is reflected in your mindset: your readiness to grow.

Then I realized something. I controlled half of the relationship, my half. I could have my half of the relationship.

we first develop the Ego, then encounter the Soul, and finally give birth to a unique sense of Self.

The Ego is the "container" for our life. The Ego creates a boundary between us and everything else and mediates our relationship with the world.

So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other.

separates his behavior from his identity

Work in a bookstore and learn that most people in this world feel guilty about being who they are.

Louisa May Alcott is right. An extraordinary girl can't have an ordinary life. Don't judge yourself. Love yourself.

My serotonin surges and Jeff Bezos is a rich man because he knows how much we all just love to get a present, even if it's a present we bought for ourselves.

That's why you leave the windows open. You don't know how to be alone with yourself. And if you block out the world, there you'd be.