Quotes About Self

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

One may demand heroism only of a single person and that is oneself.

It was, therefore, in an attempt to save one's own skin that one literally tried to submerge into the crowd.

Freedom is not something we have and therefore can lose; freedom is what we are.

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

Some people say that a man dying in a sudden accident sees his whole life flash by, like a fantastically fast movie. To stay with this concept, one might say that in death, man has become the movie himself. He now 'is' his life as he lived it, he is his own life history as it happened to him, as good as he has created it. Thus, he is his own heaven and his own hell.

Heredity is no more than the material from which man builds himself. It is no more than the stones that are, or are not, refused and rejected by the builder. But the builder himself is not built of stones.

Modern man needs to be considered as more than a psycho-physical reality. His spiritual existence cannot be neglected. He is not a mere organism. He is a person.

Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.

Man does not simply exist, but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment..

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.

for unless I am myself, I am nobody.

Do you think people change? I meant ourselves — do we change?

The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is on my shoulders. Here is the pen and the paper; on the letters in the wire basket I sign my name, I, I, and again I.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

Millions of things came back to her. Atoms danced apart and massed themselves. But how did they compose what people called a life?

People are—nothing more.

The vision of her own personality, of herself as a real everlasting thing, different from anything else, unmergeable, like the sea or the wind, flashed into Rachel's mind, and she became profoundly excited at the thought of living.

Not as oneself did one find rest ever, in her experience (she accomplished here something dexterous with her needles) but as a wedge of darkness.

Nobody sees any one as he is, let alone an elderly lady sitting opposite a strange young man in a railway carriage. They see a whole--they see all sorts of things--they see themselves...

I is only a convenient term for somebody who has no real being.

The brain is always thinking, but who is it who is thinking?

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