Quotes About Self

All your quirks and your problems, even your depressions and your failures - that's what makes you you.

Properly speaking, altruism is an absurdity. Women are self-sacrificing in direct proportion to their incapacity to offer anything but this sacrifice. They sacrifice what they never had: a self. The cry of the deserted woman, 'What have I done to deserve this?' reveals at once the false emotional economy that she has been following.

whatever else we are or may pretend to be, we are certainly our bodies

I am Rose my eyes are blueI am Rose and who are youI am Rose and when I singI am Rose like anything.

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

Believe me for meat and for myself.

Coffee is a lot more than just a drink; it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup

Let me listen to me and not to them.

He was in love with me. Or rather, he yearned to be me. Which is, perhaps, the most instantaneous and absolute characteristic of love.

Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it.

Man is free; but not unless he believes he is.

Because of the indefinite nature of the human mind, wherever it is lost in ignorance man makes himself the measure of all things.

rational metaphysics teaches that man becomes all things by understanding them ... imaginative metaphysics shows that man becomes all things by not understanding them ... for when he does not understand he makes the things out of himself and becomes them by transforming himself into them.

Este universo es una gran ciudad en la que con una ley eterna Dios condena a los necios a hacer una guerra contra sí mismos. (...) Si algún idiota, por maldad perversa, por relajación o por pereza, o incluso por imprudencia, actuara mal, siendo reo de alta traición, ¡hágase él mismo la guerra a sí mismo!

That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.

Every man has reminiscences that he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has other matters in his mind that he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But there are other things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind. Dostoyevsky. Notes from Underground

Until age forty a man has the face he was born with, at forty he has the face he deserves." George

It may be crazy, but I'm the closest thing I have to a voice of reason.

Before you can change the world, you must understand that you yourself are part of it. You can not stand outside, looking in.

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. He might, after all, be a sort of animal, namely, a higher mammal. There has yet to be ventured the hazardous leap to the hypothesis that perhaps he is a man.

Moreover both this constant awareness (generally called 'consciousness'), and this non-sensuous inner perception (generally called 'introspection') have been supposed to be exempt from error.

There is no real security except for whatever you build inside yourself.

They thought it was an enemy but it was only their own reflection.