Quotes About Self

The fear of being alone is born out of keeping company with parts of yourself that want you to feel incomplete so that they can lead you into one self-compromising relationship after another!

We are always the person we were, and we grow into someone very different, if we live long enough. Both things are true.

Could one forget how to be free?

I thought that whoever she really was wasn't who she was living as.

It's all about vanity, isn't it? I think it says something about people if they can't do it

To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.

To create - a role, a poem, picture, music, a rapture in stone: great. But not for her. What she wanted was to donate to the world a good Maud Martha. That was the offering, the bit of art, that could not come from any other. She would polish and hone that.

If you scream, you're marked "insane." But silence is a place in which to scream!

Green with sleep the skin breathes night I hear you turning worlds in your dark dream The sheets like leaves in a private season Speak of singular self which lies between. Your breathing is a thing I cannot enter Like a season more remote than winter; Green with sleep breathes, breathes the skin, I hear you turning worlds in your dark dream.

Shun praise. Praise leads to self-delusion. Thy body is not Self, thyself is in itself without a body, and either praise or blame affects it not.

Estas son la ma

in the synagogue of my heart... I myself jail and the jailed, I go wounded, bite-marked

We've been turned away from our bodies, shamefully taught to ignore them, to strike them with that stupid sexual modesty; we've been victims of the old fool's game: each one will love the other sex. I'll give you your body and you'll give me mine.

There is hidden and always ready in woman the source; the locus for the other. The mother, too, is a metaphor. It is necessary and sufficient that the best of herself be given to woman by another woman for her to be able to love herself and return in love the body that was "born" to her. Touch me, caress me, you the living no-name, give me my self as myself.

We dislike matter, that is ourselves, because we are destined to matter, because anonymous matter is called death. Perhaps it isn't matter we dislike, perhaps it's anonymity. The anonymity to which we are destined - the loss of name - is what we repress at any price.

Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drinks all around.

is devoted to civilization or anything else outside himself, and that's the mark of the barbarian.

One's individuality is that part of one that never changes its identity. It is the God self. It is that which distinguishes one person from another. One's personality may become like that of others with whom one associates. Individuality never changes.

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

And it is in his own image, let us remember, that Man creates God.

You cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up up them.

Instruction for life: Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. When you lose, don't lose the lesson. Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

He who represents himself has a fool for a client." ~ Abraham Lincoln

My practice tells me I can no longer distinguish clearly between neurosis of self and neurosis of world, psychopathology of self and psychopathology of world. Moreover, it tells me that to place neurosis and psychopathology solely in personal reality is a delusional repression of what is actually, realistically, being experienced