Quotes About Self

Wanting to be someone else is the waste of who you are

I don't care what you think unless it is about me.

Time-travel is possible, but no person will ever manage to kill his past self. Godel laughed his laugh then, and concluded, The a priori is greatly neglected. Logic is very powerful.

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

the assertion of an identity always proceeds through contrast or opposition;

Tengo muchas ganas de huir y, sin embargo, ya no sé de lo que estoy huyendo.

Faith, thought Eszter . . . is not a matter of believing something, but believing that somehow things could be different; in the same way, music was not the articulation of some better part of ourselves, or a reference to some notion of a better world, but a disguising of the fact of our irredeemable selves and the sorry state of the world, but no, not merely a disguising but a complete, twisted denial of such facts: it was a cure that did not work, a barbiturate that functioned as an opiate.

Scientology does not teach you. It only reminds you. For the information was yours in the first place.

My nature is to be cheerful and my foolish self is very likely to be led astray by happy, frivolous things, things of the moment, and I just can't help it, Jaimy, I can't. There is a wildness in me that can't be denied. I

What do you do, everyone can do, but what you are, nobody can be.

I am my only master

There would never be a place where he could belong completely, where he could truly be himself. Unless he chose to belong to the shadows

Soy yo la que está fuera de lugar. Y lo peor es que siento que hay algún lugar al que pertenezco, solo que no logro encontrarlo.

False modesty is the last refinement of vanity.

A man of variable mind is not one man, but several men in one; he multiplies himself as often as he changes his taste and manners; he is not this minute what he was the last, and will not be the next what he is now; he is his own successor.

When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a Vizor and a Face.

We are so used to disguise ourselves to others, that at last we disguise ourselves even to ourselves.

The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.

It is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to us.

We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.

The inner life is the whole man, and forms all the worth of man.

Každý sen je masochistní.

I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.

Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.