Quotes About Self

I wanted a name on my shirt that represented who I am, and I feel I have no connection with the Alli surname.

After a while, you have no idea how old you are because you've lied so many times.

Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.

There is no limit to how far drag can go.

There is no limit on life besides the one we put on ourselves.

There's no point in me being something other than me.

No pressure on the outside is greater than the pressure I put on myself.

A veces, nuestro futuro viene impuesto por quienes somos, y no por lo que queremos.

If not for my diaries, I would swear I had lived only half as long as I have. Long periods of my life seem to have vanished. And now I read the passages and wonder who I was when I wrote them, for I cannot remember the events of my life. There are times I sit and wonder where it all has gone.

he was choosing the pace of his life rather than having his life choose the pace. Being

No, she reminded herself, her childhood hadn't defined her, or had anything to do with the real reason..

She laughed, and I noted how different she was from the first night I'd met her. It was almost as though her uniform had the ability to transform her personality. But then I realized that the same was true about me. In a lab coat or scrubs, I was one person; dressed like a yachtsman, I was someone different. (p. 97, Trevor Benson)

It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, as opposed to what we want.

no es necesario que nuestras opiniones, nuestros pensamientos y sentimientos (todo aquello que experimentamos) nos defina para siempre. Supongo

Creo que puedes hacer lo que quieras. Al final, cada uno vive la vida que ha elegido vivir.

we always bring ourselves with us wherever we go.

One could argue that most of the trouble in the world is caused by introspection.

I don't even feel as if I'm the center of my own world, so how am I supposed to feel as though I'm the center of anyone else's?

I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal.

He'd still be who he was, and that, it seemed to him, was the basic problem.

I have made myself more complicated than I really am.

Does that help? Probably not, unless you are sane enough to believe that the truth about anyone is disappointing, the truth about me especially so.

Actually, I can see one advantage to the Western way of thinking, which is that if someone has a name, you know what to call them, don't you? It's only one small advantage, and there are millions of big disadvantages, including the biggest one of all, which is that names are really fascist and don't allow us to express ourselves as human beings, and turn us into one thing.

I'll have got him out of my system." "I hope not." "Really?" "What would there be left of you, if you did?