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Quotes About Self

Some of it is ugly, obscene and bestial, some of it is pure and holy and spiritual: all of it is myself.
~ James Joyce
No serás el dueño de otros ni tampoco su esclavo.
~ James Joyce
We're as old as we feel, Johnny.
~ James Joyce
I was happier then. Or was that I? Or am I now I?
~ James Joyce
Wait. Five months. Molecules all change. I am other I now. Other I got pound. Buzz. Buzz. But I, entelechy, form of forms, am I by memory because under everchanging forms. I that sinned and prayed and fasted. A child Conmee saved from pandies. I, I and I. I.
~ James Joyce
We're as old as we feel
~ James Joyce
Be on the side of the angels. Be a prism. You have that something within, the higher self.
~ James Joyce
In the intense instant of imagination, when the mind, Shelley says, is a fading coal that which I was is that which I am and that which in possibility I may come to be. So in the future, the sister of the past, I may see [187] myself as I sit here now but by reflection from that which then I shall be.
~ James Joyce
There are certain kinds of currency you acquire in life. Most of it is ephemeral. But friendship and faith in the unseen world and the commitment to be true unto thine own self are the human glue that you never give up, not for any reason.
~ James Lee Burke
Instead, he lived inside his loneliness
~ James Lee Burke
Some see the self in the self by means of the self through meditation; others through S??khya yoga; and others through the yoga of action.
~ James Mallinson
You have to choose between what the world expects of you and what you want for yourself," my sister Jack told me several times. "Put yourself in God's hands and you can't go wrong.
~ James McBride
We all got to die, she said. But dying as your true self is always better. God'll take you however you come to Him. But it's easier on a soul to come to Him clean. You're forever free that way. From top to bottom.
~ James McBride
It occurred to me then that you is everything you are in this life at every moment.
~ James McBride
It occurred to me then that you is everything you are in this life at every moment. And that includes loving somebody. If you can't be your own self, how can you love somebody? How can you be free?
~ James McBride
Freedom to be oneself is all very well; the greater freedom is not to be oneself.
~ James Merrill
The only person holding you back; is you. Once you become comfortable with overcoming your own fears, you will start seeing dramatic success in your life.
~ James Moore
You can only be you, and it is not until you reclaim your unique self that you can be truly great.
~ James Moore
To be serious is to press for a specified conclusion. To be playful is to allow for possibility whatever the cost to oneself.
~ James P. Carse
Fang. I had to do some thinking about him. Me. I had some thinking to do about me too.
~ James Patterson
Part 5 The Voice- Make that my voice
~ James Patterson
Why, the little Voice inside my head, of course. You mean you don't have one? I did.
~ James Patterson
My eyes flickered when I heard the Voice inside my head. (You mean you don't have one? You can get 'em at Target.)
~ James Patterson
Two LADIES AND GENTLEMEN… ME!
~ James Patterson