Quotes About Selfhood

I haven't even had a life I could call my own, and you're ready to slot me into the grand design. Well, I don't think I want to go. I want to be my own design.

for unless I am myself, I am nobody.

I am what I am, and intend to be it,' for which there will be no form in the world unless Jacob makes one for himself.

unless I am myself, I am nobody.

Live your own life, for you will die your own death.

Do you have a girl? Where's your girl? Where's your girl?" "She's her own girl

Identity is destiny.

The wise man believes profoundly in silence, the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit. The man who preserves his selfhood ever calm and unshaken by the storms of existence - not a leaf, as it were, astir on the tree, not a ripple upon the surface of the shinning pool - his, in the mind of the unlettered sage, is the ideal attitude and conduct of life. Silence is the cornerstone of character.

Of course, immortality of the soul-- the bare soul, cleansed of any personality traces-- is rarely what is desired in the yearning for immortality... More often what one intends to preserve is a public personage, a permanently veiled selfhood.

What is unique about humans is their individuality.

I want women to be the subject, not the object.

There are still women who are not living their own lives, but living through their men or their children

Women, ever since there have been women, have had a way of being people.

Benazir Bhutto doesn't cease to exist the moment she gets married. I am not giving myself away. I belong to myself and I always shall.

Nothing happened to me, Officer Starling. I happened. You can't reduce me to a set of influences.

It is the body that possesses itself: Owning something means to be able to control it, and selfhood is intimately related to the very moment in which the body discovers that it can control itself—as a whole. It is exactly what happens when you wake up in the morning, when you "come to yourself.

I don't want to mix the identities. Noah Drake isn't Rick Springfield.

I've always wanted to be my own person. Even when I was 'Noah who rode horses,' I wanted to be Noah Cyrus, not anyone else or a family member.

The Master said, "The gentleman does not serve as a vessel." (Analects 2.12)

You might think that fingerprints and numbers give you a distinct identity. But soon there will be no identity so distinct as simply to have none.

If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them I want to be one of me.

I was an only child-- and so I became an only man." Joshua Bigg The Tenth Commandment

It is indeed strange that we find it so difficult to welcome...the blissful nature of the loss of the power of selfhood—a power it was, in any case, always an illusion to think we possessed.

My heart shall never be put under their microscope.