Quotes About Selfhood

I would rather die an individual than live my life as a clone.

A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.

It seemed to mean doing something, being somebody yourself, not just existing in and through others.

The problem is always being the children's mommy, or the minister's wife and never being myself.

I don't much like things to go by somebody's name, like the 'Bob Jones Group Jam Band.'

Le gusta esa idea. Es una idea que nunca compartirá con nadie. Es una idea que hace que él sea él y no otro.

La plus grande chose du monde, c'est de savoir être à soi.

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

I want to be me - and people know it's me. I don't want: 'He's trying to act like Kobe' or 'His answers are like something Kobe would've said.' Nah. If it's me, I'm going to say it.

I'm sorry to disappoint you, but my experience belongs to me, not the collective bloody unconscious.

People reach an age... where somebody else's platform is no longer yours.

Here is where our real selfhood is rooted, in the divine spark or seed, in the image of God imprinted on the human soul. The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.

The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be--

I don't want to be defined solely by what I do as a jazz musician at a club or a festival. That's not all of me. It's not even close.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

Tr?ie?te el, ca om, ca fiin?? total? - ?i nu se las? tr?it de ?esuturile lui, de glandele lui, de automatismele lui, ca noi to?i, ce?tilal?i...

one cannot be a mother without first being a person; family, husband, and children should not be allowed, as is so often the case, to steal a woman's selfhood and her dreams. I considered that, if I were not true to myself, then all the mothering I could give you would have been falsehood

One cannot be a mother without first being a person; family, husband and children should not be allowed, as is so often the case, to steal a woman's selfhood and her dreams.

I don't like hawking 'round other people's memories. That wasn't part of the deal when I was born.

Mickey is his own person.

Individuation means becoming an "in-dividual," and, in so far as "individuality" embraces our innermost, last, and incomparable uniqueness, it also implies becoming one's own self. We could therefore translate individuation as "coming to selfhood" . . .

I want to be cut off from people like Marloe. Being a real person oneself is a matter of setting up limits and drawing lines and saying no. I don't want to be a nebulous bit of ectoplasm straying around in other people's lives. That sort of vague sympathy with everybody precludes any real understanding of anybody . . . And it precludes any real loyalty to anybody.

It is unjust, it is so unjust, was her thought. I have never been recognized as myself.

Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed.