Quotes About Self

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it — memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it- memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.

Every man is the hero of his own song.

The only thing you really have to prove is yourself.

We lose ourselves in books. We find ourselves there too.

I was running away," Jimbo said. "From whom?" "From myself." "A difficult endeavor," Genji said. "Many have attempted it. None that I know of has succeeded. Did you?" "Yes, my lord," Jimbo said. "I did.

You're always with me. But that must also be some version of you that i made up inside my head

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. —Eleanor Roosevelt

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

You can knock down a genuine belief, if you load up with enough facts that contradict it; but a belief that's built on nothing except who the person wants to be, nothing can crumble that.

The thing is, I suppose," he said, "that one gets into the habit of being oneself. It takes some great upheaval to crack that shell and force us to discover what else might be underneath.

I've only myself to please. There's great freedom in that.

The truth is, if you don't exist without someone else, you don't exist at all.

The place makes it clear that whoever lives there has only themselves to please.

I live inside my own skin. Anything that happens outside it doesn't change who I am. This isn't something I'm proud of; as far as I'm concerned, it's a bare minimum baseline requirement for calling yourself an adult human being, somewhere around the level of knowing how to do your own washing or change a toilet roll. All those idiots on the websites, begging for other people to pull their sagging puppet-strings, turn them real: they make me want to spit.

I live inside my own skin. Anything that happens outside it doesn't change who I am. This isn't something I'm proud of; as far as I'm concerned, it's a bare minimum baseline requirement for calling yourself an adult human being,

At the dark heart of the horror was the knowledge that it was inescapable. The thing I couldn't bear wasn't burglars or blows to the head, wasn't anything I could beat or evade or set up defenses against; it was myself, whatever that had become.

Success commence within self. Non one is coming to transform your life. You are the merely architect of your life. Therefore, rise up, hope for the best and act forthwith.

What I didn't know then was that you can't make people different, whatever you do. They have to do it themselves.

Whatever the hell I am, I am Me.

You can't even please yourself; how can you please a lover, Zoe?

He started to realize his body wasn't defective; rather, his society was damaging.

we are consciously aware of only a tiny portion of our perceptions and actions. To us, that small compartment appears to fill our whole mental cabinet.

There is no fixed, solid, permanent self—just a series of changing patterns of experience.