Quotes About Selfhood

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

Don't you know who I am? I'm an individual!           I

Proving one's freedom will often mean insisting on the most arbitrary, odd, unrepeatable aspects of one's behavior.

The beauty-romance link was extended to cover the desire for self-expression, and the new nexus of beauty, self-expression, and romance was in turn fostered by the culture of consumption. Love was thus made to reinforce a definition of selfhood centered around the commodities that provided youth, beauty, charm, glamour, and seductive power.

Positive psychologists insisted that people need to increase their happiness not only when things go wrong, but also when things go well, thus introducing a fundamentally new role to academic psychology: not only correcting suffering, but maximizing selfhood.

I don't like being approached by people who look at me too intensely, who needed something from me that I didn't have. I don't represent anything.

In our post-Freudian world, it is no longer a goal to become people of character who live out a God-ordained ideal of selfhood.

I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.

I can't give up my own identity.

We all need a firm sense of identity.

I have no issues with my identity.

Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ... but nobody is the author ...

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

The End of Manhood, Stoltenberg continually emphasizes that men can honor their own selfhood only through loving justice. He asserts: "Justice between people is perhaps the most important connection

I'm not Miley Cyrus. There may be some similarities, but I'm my own person.

I believe that a healthy sharing of oneself is a holy call, but so is caring for ourselves and taking time for the beautiful mysteries God created within us. The important thing is balance. Being a martyr distorts the virtuous ideal of giving to others by crossing over into victim postures and a self-denial that squelches selfhood and the creative life of the soul.

In an enmeshed family you pay for intermittent feelings of approval and safety with your selfhood.

Hey, it's going to be hard to learn a great many things about me, but one I'll you for free... I am no one's son.

When you don't inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.

We are here in life for but one reason-to learn to climb through ascensions of consciousness into the true Selfhood which is within us-the Selfhood which belongs to the eternal, the Selfhood which is our real nativity, our home in God's spirit.

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

I'm not really interested in thinking about marriage or kids at all.

How to safeguard the deepest region of my spirit and its matter which belongs to me alone, my body, my health, my thoughts, my feelings, from the danger of being sacrificed to the deranged prejudices of others, to serve interests which are not my own?

Ego synthesized is selfhood, the sense of self-importance, that you really matter ... nothing could be further from the truth.