Quotes About Self

Ma mentre trovavo loro una casa nella sezione "saggistica d'arte e letteratura" (personalmente trovo che agli scopi domestici il sistema di archiviazione Trivial Pursuit funzioni meglio del Dewey), d'un tratto ho avuto una piccola epifania: tutti i libri che possediamo, letti e no, sono l'espressione più piena che abbiamo a disposizione della nostra personalità.

Kau harus hidup dalam gelembungmu sendiri. Kau tidak bisa memaksa masuk ke dalam gelembung milik orang lain, karena dengan begitu, itu tak lagi menjadi gelembung.

The identity of the Filipino today is of a person asking what is his identity.

The world was always going to be remade by people who were too busy to remake themselves first and who left the world twice as miserable as before.

We would all rather be loved for what we seem to be.

She could become anyone she wishes. But how will she know she is still herself?

A name, she thinks, is what makes a person who they are. A name is how they know themself.

An authentic life comes from an authentic self in which the layers on the outside are merely expressions of the core on the inside.

Aside from myself, there was no sign of me.

The price we paid for the volumes of ourselves that we suffocated in the dark.

Who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of his loneliness?

His memory had abandoned him, and though he had searched within himself all these weeks, he could find no desire to have it returned. If it came back now, he felt he would turn it away, and the knowledge of this renouncement, a small act of defiance, gave him a feeling of liberty.

What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.

I cannot be comprehended except by my permission

Though I worship nothing (save myself) You were my savior—so be it And it was Perhaps not never more or ever after But after all—once you were mine

Addictions are just symptoms of underlying issues, and in my view Nikki self-medicated the emotional pain of his childhood, and being away from his mother a lot, through drug use. What did he want? Ultimately he wanted to be able to create love for himself as a person.

Your ego is not your amigo.

From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering, but to my present view, it was a blessing in disguise for it has taught me to appreciate the inestimable value of introspection in the preservation of life, as well as a means of achievement.

Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a form of slavery? To sacrifice oneself to an idea, to a race, to God? Or does it mean that the higher the model the longer the tether of our slavery? Then we can enjoy ourselves and frolic in a more spacious arena and die without having come to the end of the tether. Is that, then, what we call liberty?

Everyman has his folly, but the greatest folly of all, in my view, is not to have one.

God is in each of us. But we must give Him permission to come out.

Cuando vendes un producto, conservas el control sobre tu persona. En cambio, cuando vendes tu trabajo, te estás vendiendo a ti mismo.

As always in the past, one can choose to be a democrat in Jefferson's sense, or an aristocrat. The latter path offers rich rewards, given the locus of wealth, privilege and power, and the ends it naturally seeks. The other path is one of struggle, often defeat, but also rewards that cannot be imagined by those who succumb to 'the New Spirit of the Age: Gain Wealth, forgetting all but Self.

If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with.