Quotes About Self

God is a luxury I don't give myself.

neither knowledge nor imagination comes easily, it is buried in the pain of one's forgotten experience, and so one must work to find it, one must occasionally exhaust oneself by digging into the self in order to perceive the outside.

I may never wind up being anything, but I owe it to myself to build my integrity.

The perception of the possibility of greatness in myself has always been followed by desire to murder the nearest unworthy.

What you can image, you will be, in the long run.

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Can you help me?" "Well," I said, "perhaps I can help you help yourself.

I had heard that verse many times but in a flash of insight realized that one of the keys I had missed was that hadn't trained my mind to believe, to think positively, to have faith in either God or myself.

The jailer is you. You're the only person who has the key to your cell. You're the only one who can open the door that leads to freedom.

We do not live in centred space anymore, but have to create our own centres.

And you only have one face." "Is that bad?" asked Milo, making sure it was still there. "You'll soon wear it out using it for everything," replied the Dodecahedron.

If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.

The Bridge Between now and now, between I am and you are, the word bridge. Entering it you enter yourself: the world connects and closes like a ring. From one bank to another, there is always a body stretched: a rainbow. I'll sleep beneath its arches.

al entrar en ti mismo no sales del mundo

Therefore the fiesta is not only an excess, a ritual squandering of the goods painfully accumulated during the rest of the year; it is also a revolt, a sudden immersion in the formless, in pure being. By means of the fiesta society frees itself from the norms it has established. It ridicules its gods, its principles, and its laws: it denies its own self.

A saint speaks with God or with himself, two forms of silence.

Es posible que lo que llamamos pecado no sea sino la expresión mítica de la conciencia de nosotros mismos, de nuestra soledad.

El mexicano no quiere ser ni indio, ni español. Tampoco quiere descender de ellos. Los niega. Y no se afirma en tanto que mestizo, sino como abstracción: es un hombre. Se vuelve hijo de la nada. Él empieza en sí mismo.

En alguna parte hay un lugar vacío y ese vacío se llenará de mí y yo me asentaré en ese hueco que insesiblemente rebosará de mí, pleno de mí hasta volverse fuente o surtidor. Y mi vacío, el vacío de mí que soy ahora, se llenará de sí, pleno de ser hasta los bordes.

I am the shadow my words cast

Mas enquanto vivemos não podemos escapar das máscaras nem dos nomes e pronomes: somos inseparáveis das nossas ficções- das nossas facções. Estamos condenados a inventar uma máscara e a descobrir, depois, que essa máscara é nosso verdadeiro rosto.

El hombre es un ser que se ha creado sí mismo al crear un lenguaje.

The Scroll Marked IV I am nature's greatest miracle.

People seldom improve when they have no model but themselves to copy after.