Quotes About Self

My father chose to have relationships at the expense of having a self, a pattern that began long before he met and married Rose.

We can operate from a solid position of self, even when the other person won't speak to us at all.

We can learn to sit more comfortably with our confusion. We can operate from a solid position of self, even when the other person won't speak to us at all.

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Then I stare at my face in the mirror for a minute or two, wondering if it feels like mine. In Bram Stoker's Dracula, the dark count is invisible in mirrors and I often feel something similar is true of me too. I can't feel any deep relationship between the face that is mine and the person I am. Like they're two different things. I don't

Each person is living for himself his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.

A big philosophical breakthrough for me was the realization that my own freedom was not only possible, but far more important than the establishment of a free society.

The answer is simple: You are you, the person who will live with the consequences of what you do. No one else can be responsible, because no one else will experience the consequences of your actions as you will.

I'm free and happy because I accepted myself as I am and found a life that suits me

If your purpose is to make someone happy, you're more apt to succeed if you make yourself the object. You'll never know another person more than a fraction as well as you can know yourself.

I always get the best advice from myself.

There is no self that exists independent of the forces that created it, and thus you cannot be held personally, or perhaps I should say morally, accountable for what you did or didn't do.

Your only nobility is being better than who you were yesterday.

No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.

We live not in the world outside, but in a world inside ourselves.

The apology from the arsonist takes up space that could otherwise be used to remove one's self from the fire. HStanbrough

The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.

To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.

Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.

The villains are all parts of me. For years I've been wondering what it would be like if all those negative elements were forced onto the main character's side. I can understand a character with that kind of anger.

To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to lost the possibility of being countless other potential selves.. Yet once being born there is no turning back. And I think that's exactly why the fantasy worlds of cartoon movies so strongly represent our hopes and yearnings. They illustrate a world of lost possibilities for us.

And in those changes to the Scriptures of your faith you only prove that you didn't know what you were doing in the first place. Picking and choosing your faith promises the ultimate freedom to be who you want and do what you want, but eventually it will only prove to you that to live for yourself and to make your law based on your own happiness is to become the slave of your imperfect self and to be tortured and tormented by your own pride and failure.

Man is an intellectual animal, therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the ends of the universe; so that he is torn in pieces between the two without the possibility of its ever being otherwise. A mere physical being or a pure spirit can alone be satisfied with itself.

The reason why man seeks for happiness is not because happiness is his sustenance, but because happiness is his own being; therefore in seeking for happiness, man is seeking for himself.