Quotes About Self

Everywhere the culture reproduces itself, reflects itself, as in a hall of mirrors - the landscape, the language, the currency, all bouncing off each other, recreating each other - and in the midst of those mirrors, both reflected and projecting, stands the child, discovering himself in these castle walls, these terraced hills, the liquid words he speaks, and now in this coloured paper, too.

The loss of memory is the loss of identity, Rebekah. If you can't remember who you are, you are at risk of becoming someone else.

In that moment, I felt differently to myself yet the essence of who I really was. Like a perfect state of balance.

If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing.

A rich sense of confidence comes from three different types of belief: confidence in yourself, trust in others, and faith in God.

You just go around acting like you're saving other people so you don't have to deal with your own problems.

Goodbye, I say, goodbye, as I disappear little by little into the middle of the middle of my own spectacular now.

I wasn't an object. I was Matthew Fucking Richter

Perhaps a century of the ascendant self, of the self's progressive liberation from any trammels not explicitly conceived to protect other selves, perhaps this progression, when wedded to the magic of technology serving not the state or even the corporation but the individual ego, perhaps it could reach no other logical endpoint, but the self as its own object of worship.

By encouraging anyone to capture the attention of others with the spectacle of one's self—in some cases, even to the point of earning a living by it—it warps our understanding of our own existence and its relation to others. That this should become the manner of being for us all is surely the definitive dystopic vision of late modernity. But perhaps it was foretold by the metastatic proliferation of the attention merchants' model throughout our culture.

It's a short reminder that success can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations we are willing to have, and by the number of uncomfortable actions we are willing to take. The most fulfilled and effective people I know—world-famous creatives, billionaires, thought leaders, and more—look at their life's journey as perhaps 25 percent finding themselves and 75 percent creating themselves.

We are simultaneously gods and worms."—Abraham Maslow

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As

the goal is to connect with your own self, your own soul.

No one is qualified to tell you how you experience the world." Vlad Zamfir

We are whatever we pretend to be.

it's never too late to replace the stories you tell yourself

Piensa en la edad que tienes ahora y en la versión de ti mismo dentro de diez años.

Somos los que simulamos ser".»

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. —RICHARD P. FEYNMAN, Nobel Prize–winning physicist

Remember Who You Are

Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung.

The core of it was to be your unapologetically weird self. I think authenticity is one of the most lacking things out there these days.

To have an uncommon lifestyle, you need to develop the uncommon habit of making decisions, both for yourself and for others.