Quotes About Selfhood

.you are not him or her, you be you..

A clone may be a good copy, but you are the real thing!

You do not own me. I do not own you.

who they are and not which

What would you call yourself if you didn't use anyone or anything else's associations to label you?

was as if a wall of mist were at my back, and behind that wall there was not yet an "I." But at this moment I came upon myself.Previously I had existed, too, but everything had merely happened to me. Now I happened to myself. Now I knew: I am myself now, now I exist. Previously, I had been willed to do this and that; now I willed.20

By the grace of God you are what you are; glory in your selfhood, accept yourself and go on from there.

There is no point in being a responsible member of society, nor is there any point in being an irresponsible member of society. Both are very defined descriptions of selfhood

Be yourself around a world of clones.

As a spirit schooled to power, his perception stems from one absolute. Universal harmony begins with recognition that the life in an ordinary pebble is as sacred as conscious selfhood.

People think they are individuals because they use the word I so often, Patrick commented.

Displacement results in a tenuous relationship with the past, with the self that used to exist and operate in a different place, where the qualities that constituted us were in no need of negotiation. Immigration is an ontological crisis because you are forced to negotiatet the conditions of your selfhood under pereptually changing existential circumstances.

I am not the clone of anyone.

I'm not a clone, and I'm not a minion.

I always wanted to be me and not a Lahm clone or Lahm the second.

I don't want them to compare me to one or the other - I want people to know me for being Griezmann.

Perhaps human self hood in it's collective form is unable to imagine any higher value than the common value of it's devotion. Hence, the redemptive value of dissident individuals, the prophet, the critic, even the rebel, in a free community.

What makes my life my own is ultimately the sheer fact that it is mine to live, mine to make something of, in the face of my possible non-existence. Every other possibility is something that I may be free not to do, and that someone else may be able to do just as well as I can. But my death is a possibility that necessarily faces me alone: no one can face it for me.

I am no longer one of Mr. Pontellier's possessions to dispose of or not.

My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.

Non volevo le loro voci nella mia mente, le loro idee su di me, le loro storie o i loro problemi personali. Perché avrebbero dovuto volere i miei?

Without parental grounding, she lacks the help she requires to process her intense emotional responses or the distorted versions of her idealized self. Stalled on the threshold of selfhood, the psyche of the child becomes increasingly preoccupied with her external self.

The proper word for me," Robin Goodman says, "is me.

I can't accept an identity others give me; I won't be your person.