Quotes About Selfhood

A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation

I realize that humans cannot bear very much reality. Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your heads into the stanchions and munch contentedly until you die. Others use you for their purposes. Not once do you live outside the stable to lift your head and be your own creature. Muad'Dib came to tell you about that. Without understanding his message, you cannot revere him!

The hands move, the lips move- Ideas gush from his words, And his eyes devour! He is an island of Selfdom

Var olmak, arkaplan?n parças? olmay? reddetmektir.

In our particular world in which conformity is the great destroyer of selfhood—in our society in which fitting the "pattern" tends to be accepted as the norm, and being "well liked" is the alleged ticket to salvation—what needs to be emphasized is not only the admitted fact that we are to some extent created by each other but also our capacity to experience, and create, ourselves.

You are not required to perform like them, you are required to perform like you.

The teachers who have had the most impact on me and on most learners I know are teachers whose "selfhoods" have been deeply invested in what they are doing.

Robert crede c? ÅŸtie tot despre mine. Nici m?car nu b?nuieÅŸte c? pot avea o via?? a mea, independent? de a lui. M? consider? doar drept o anex?. Îi sunt necesar? pentru a se simÅ£i confortabil instalat în existen??. Sunt soÅ£ia lui.

Just then his state of being was so curious that he was compelled , himself, to see it -- eager, grieving, fantastic, dangerous, crazed and, to the point of death, comical. It was enough to make a man pray to God to remove this great, bone-breaking burden of selfhood and self-development, give himself, a failure, back to the species for a primitive cure.

Much has been written about codependency. All agree that it is about the loss of selfhood. Codependency is a condition wherein one has no inner life. Happiness is on the outside. Good feelings and self-validation lie on the outside. They can never be generated from within.

Another person's life is that person's life. You can't take responsibility.

I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me.

Mylife might be little and boring, but at least it's mine - not some assembly-line, secondhand, hand-me-down life.

it does not occur to brigitte to say leave me in peace. brigitte knows, there are so many woman who would like to turn a stranger's, her, brigitte's future into one of their own. so brigitte prefers to turn herself into an extension of heinz's limbs, into a part of heinz's body.

One is not born a woman, but becomes one.

Women are not always what we seem to be. What our reputations would tell you. Nor do we only exist in reference to our fathers, husbands, and sons.

I didn't want to be the model offspring, the incarnation of her ideas.

Knowing one was comprised of recycled matter only and that selfhood was a delusion did not take away the aching of the heart.

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

A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation

Do not feel that you are destined to enlightenment in this life. You have no idea. This is an illusion of selfhood. It's gross ignorance and egotism.

I am a person. I am not a soap opera. There is never going to be a next [tabloid] installment about my life because my own stuff is my own stuff.

Thinkst so little of me, Sir Poet, that I must srve the agenda of my mother or my Queen, and I have no passions of mine own?

Kendi hammaddesini, kendi kabiliyet kudret ve ihtiraslar?yla yo?urmu?tur. Bu suretle ve bu ak?? içinde, her tarihi ?ahsiyet gibi o da, kendini yaratm??t?r. Zaten 'Tek Adam' demek, bu demek de?il midir?