Quotes About Self

The war we must must win is fought within.

Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.

The life he heard over the phone was his life.

Every guy liked to think that his demons were meaner and crazier than anybody else's.

Meditation... disolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.

We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

Felt good, though, just being what I was.

If you own yourself, you own the world.

Looking for who I am is who I am.

Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence.

I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.

We all have wanted, at one time or another, to appear as an idealized self. "I'm actually a quite different person," as the playwright Ödön von Horváth wrote, "I just never get around to being him.

Our confidence has been so shaken by this cult of expertise and performance that when we don't perceive ourselves to be experts at something, we're almost expected to outsource the task who someone who does.

T'ain't no sin to take off your skin, and dance around in your bones.

Be sure to look out for number One while not stepping in number Two.

Ja nie dla ludzi chc? by? kim?. Chc? by? kim? dla siebie.

Ma si? jedno ?ycie i moralnym obowi?zkiem jest prze?y? je w zgodzie ze sob?.

Afterwards Isabelle often wondered if the moments themselves were greater or the memory of them. At least the memory did not pass, while the moments passed all too fast. Life whizzed by; she no longer had time to recollect it. Her notebooks to this day retain the story of her desperate attempt to hold together her self, her mind, her reason, her order, her morals.

When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.

Don't you know me? Am I not your own self?

Since you're the hero of your own story, I know you'll come up with a good ending.

You're not playing the game,' Mary Landon said. 'I told you about me. You're just telling me about your family.' The statement surprised Chee. One defined himself by his family. How else? And then it occurred to him that white people didn't. They identified themselves by what they had done as individuals.

This hour of the evening with a little infinity inside, like an amnesty from the interminable condition of being oneself.

Alternatively, we could say that voice embodies, not any set of particular facts, but the presence of a self, a personality or a sensibility.