Quotes About Self

Carry your heart and your curls, and nothing more but your fingers.

They say "follow your heart," but if your heart is in a million pieces which piece do you follow?

I wondered why somebody didn't do something. Then I realized, I am somebody.

Self and soil! — ha! ha! "The soil is always grateful," says my uncle — "makes you a return in exact proportion to what you bestow on it in the way of manure and labor, — men don't." Says he, "the man that has got one hand in your pocket shakes the other fist in your face; the man that has got both hands in your pocket spits in your face."

Jis niekada taip nemyl?jo savo k?no kaip dabar, kai jam išlikti buvo taip maža vilties.

That first repulsion had been really a fear of her undiscovered self, and the fear had gone to sleep.

He does not lose anything, for with the loss of himself he loses the knowledge of loss.

Wydaje mi siÄ™ niekiedy, ?e caÅ'y Å›wiat, ?ycie, w ogóle wszytko obraÅ'o sobie siedzibÄ™ w mym wnÄ™trzu i uczyni? chce ze mnie swego rzecznika

It will not help us if this tradition is created for us, to be read about in yet another book. To create a wilder self, the self must live the life of the wild, mold a particular form of human character, a form of life. Relics will not do, tourism will not do, books will not do.

Although there are many things you can rely on, no one is more reliable than yourself.

Indeed, the biggest winners in the world are those who answer yes to the question, "Am I living the life I choose?

every good artist paints what he is

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

Every good painter paints what he is.

In trying to formalize a rule, we look for truth, but what we find is knowledge, and what we fail to find is certainty. This limitation has no special bearing on the knowledge of self.

It is passing strange, what a fluid thing is one's own identity.

Io sono Phèdre nó Delaunay de Montrève, e sono unica.

In learning about the myths and legends of old, we learn something of ourselves. Stories, Maisie, are never just stories. They contain fundamental truths about the human condition.

Pay attention to the reactions of your body. It is the wisdom of the self speaking to you. Be aware of concern, of anticipation, of all the feelings that come from the self. They manifest in the body.

People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.

institutional self-reform is rare; the conscience is willing, but the culture is rough.

But to learn to live, to learn it from oneself and by oneself, all alone, to teach oneself to live ("I would like to learn to live finally"), is that not impossible for a living being? Is it not what logic itself forbids? To live, by definition, is not something one learns. Not from oneself, it is not learned from life, taught by life. Only from the other and by death. In

it is based on the foundation, as in Descartes, of the "I am," the foundation of subjectivity and consciousness

we seem to know who we are