Quotes About Self

How's that training coming along, Griff? Good old Max says you're a natural. Turner frowned. Any time a white man asked you about yourself, they were about to fuck you over.

You have to have an inside you, she used to say, and an outside you. Ain't nobody's business who you are really, so it's up to you what you gave them.

By making a circle of themselves that separated the human spirits within from the degradation without.

themselves that separated the human spirits within

But if people received their just portion of misfortune, what had she done to bring her troubles on herself?

The second thing Elwood noticed was the boy's eerie sense of self. The mess hall was loud with the rumble and roil of juvenile activity, but this boy bobbed in his own pocket of calm.

Hey, man! Hey, hold up a minute! Like many New Yorkers, he had a crackhead alert system and turned, steeling himself.

Three months, I thought. In idle moments, I retreated into that early-summer dream of reinvention, when you set your eyes on September and that refurbished self you were going to tool around in, honking the horn so people would take notice...

If the correct things belonged to you, perhaps you might belong.

The tunnels of our lives connect, coming to daylight at the oddest moments, and then plunge us into the dark again. We return to the lives of those who have gone before us, a perplexing möbius strip until we come home, eventually, to ourselves.

I suppose one finally learns, after much searching, that we really only belong to ourselves.

At what whirling moment had she halted and turned, unbeknownst to herself, the other way?

In terms of days and moments lived, you'll never again be as young as you are right now, so spend this day, the youth of your future, in a way that deflects regret. Invest in yourself. Have some fun. Do something important. Love somebody extra. In one sense, you're just a kid, but a kid with enough years on her to know that every day is priceless. (418)

A person has to grow as a moral self in order to transcend this childlike subjectivity and primitive narcissism.

The virtues define the character of a person, his enduring relationship to the world, and what will be his end. Whereas values, according to their common usage, are the instruments or components of moral living that the self chooses for itself and that the self may disregard without necessarily jeopardizing its identity.

As long as a self is driven by an id to a Thou, it is not a matter of love, either. In love the self is not driven by the id, but rather the self chooses the Thou.

Meaning must be found and cannot be given.

haber sido es también una forma de ser, quizá la forma más segura de ser.

Man has both potentialities within himself; which one is actualized depends on decisions but not on conditions.

No man and no destiny can be compared with any other man or any other destiny.

Man has both potentialities within himself; which one is actualized depends on decisions but not on conditions. Our

make. Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision, a decision which determined whether you would or would not submit to those powers which threatened to rob you of your very self, your inner freedom; which determined whether or not you would become the plaything of circumstance, renouncing freedom and dignity to become molded into the form of the typical inmate.

Logotherapy tries to make the patient fully aware of his own responsibleness

uniqueness and singleness which distinguishes each individual and gives a meaning to his existence