Quotes About Self

I have indeed lived nominally fifty years, but deduct out of them the hours which I have lived to other people, and not to myself, and you will find me still a young fellow. For that is the only true Time, which a man can properly call his own-- that which he has all to himself; the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's Time, not his.

Talent is God given-be thankful. Praise is man given-be humble. Conceit is self given-be careful.

Well, I know about loneliness. I won't talk about it, but I was very lonely after the war. I know what it feels like to spend a whole weekend all by yourself and no one wants you at all.

I'm nobody I'm a tramp, a bum, a hobo I'm a boxcar and a jug of wine And a straight razor ...if you get too close to me

Look down at me and you see a fool; look up at me and you see a god; look straight at me and you see yourself

Death is peace from this world's madness and paradise in my own self. Death as I lay in my grave of constant vibration, endless now

Prison is a frame of thought, we're all our own prisons, were each our own wardens and we do our own time. See prison in your mind, can't you see I'm free?

Look down on me and you see a fool, look up at me and you see a god. Look straight at me and you see yourself.

Prison is a frame of thought, we're all our own prisons, were each our own wardens and we do our own time. See prison is in your mind, can't you see I'm free?

Identity does not grow out of action until it has taken root in belonging.

I've been hurt, I imagine we all have, and I think somewhere in that pain we convince ourselves that if we don't open up and love again, we don't have to hurt again

For we alone are the keepers of the letters that set us free.

Someone speaks whose we are, and out of that we become who we are.

the soul is / proprioceptive

The original in man is that which articulates him from the very outset upon something other than himself.

If he stays inside himself, if he is contained within his nature as he is participant in the larger force, he will be able to listen, and his hearing through himself will give him secrets objects share.

For you know that I myself am a labyrinth, where one easily gets lost.

If you dress like a slob, chances are you probably don't respect yourself that much.

My language is the sum total of myself.

To be conscious is already to be divided, to be multiple.

To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions.

The ideally free Ego would be a lucid calculator of payoffs.

the dark side of individualism is a centering on the self, which both flattens and narrows our lives, makes them poorer in meaning, and less concerned with others or society.

Having is estranged being.