Quotes About Selfhood

I didn't want to be the next version of any player - I wanted to establish my own name.

I never went around saying who my brother was. Everybody else was doing that.

Chi oserebbe condannarti alla perdita del tu, catastrofe non meno terribile della perdita dell'io?

Crushing the toddler's autonomy and purposeful will is the most damaging form of shaming that can be done. When autonomy is crushed, toxic shame is manifested either as total conformity or rebellion against authority. Once willpower, anger and purpose are bound in shame, a child's selfhood and personal power are severely wounded. His drive for separateness and autonomy are bound by shame. This has been called a "purpose shame bind.

But at the end of the day, I'm my own man, regardless of what my little brother does or what he did.

I like to make up my own lines and dress myself and act like myself and no other characters.

Selfhood is the source of suffering; Truth is the source of bliss.

I only know how to be me, won't be another carbon copy.

Neither your family nor your culture gave you your personality. You created it yourself.

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

For everyone else, you are whatever one's brain has the capabilty to process, for you, you are just yourself.

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

Religion can be condensed in a single phrase: total freedom to be oneself.

Be your own person because no one can ever take that away from you, no one.

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

Without freedom, no one really has a name.

We do not aspire to communal life but to a life apart.

The man who is set free is nothing but a freed man, a libertinus, a dog dragging a piece of chain with him: he is an unfree man in the garment of freedom, like the ass in the lion's skin.

Whoever is a complete person does not need to be an authority.

I was experiencing the paroxysm of selfhood. The scientific name for this spasm is The Last Hurrah. The feeling was quickly spent.

To Javed- My way of life is poverty, not the pursuit of wealth; Barter not thy Selfhood; win a name in adversity.

Selfhood is a heavy, hardly translucent medium, which cuts off most of the light of reality and distorts what little it permits to pass.' This is Huxley's central notion [of Grey Eminence], that we should 'stand out of our own light' in order to see the eternal truths.

When I forget my own inner multiplicity and my own long and continuing journey toward selfhood, my expectations of students become excessive and unreal. If I can remember the inner pluralism of my own soul and the slow pace of my own self-emergence, I will be better able to serve the pluralism among my students at the pace of their young lives.

Our deepest calling is to grow into our authentic selfhood, whether or not it conforms to some image of who we ought to be. As we do so, we will not only find the joy that every human being seeks—we will also find our path of authentic service in the world. True vocation joins self and service, as Frederick Buechner asserts when he defines vocation as "the place where your deep gladness meets the world's deep need.