625 quotes found
“Memories tell me who I was, not who Ill become. They dont fix the present any more than they fix the past.”
“Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.”
“To be insular is to be independent. But it is also to be alone.”
“Who can give a man this, his own name?”
“Remember who you really are. You cannot be destroyed or hurt. You cannot be harmed or killed. You, the real you, will always be present and powerful.”
“It does seem - well, difficult - to be at the mercy of some gross, unshaven stranger before you can begin to be yourself.”
“We are each authors of a self-concocted depiction establishing our present day identity. Our persona is woven from a range of truths interweaved with inspired imagination and occasionally bounded b...”
“Self-knowledge is the foundation stone of every principled person, and any changes of a persons mutable character commences with an extensive course of self-evaluation. Personal evolution is a prod...”
“If we get our very identity, our sense of worth, from our political position, then politics is not really about, it is about US. Through our cause we are getting a self, our worth. That means we MU...”
“Our sense of self, formulated in large part by the untold number of cross-related connections that we make with our physical, social, and family environments, is reliant upon fitting into our socia...”
“There comes a time when all that remains for us to do is to surrender to the idiosyncrasies of our nature.”
“We must not be anything other than what we are.”
“To know who I am is a species of knowing where I stand. My identity is defined by the commitments and identifications which provide the frame or horizon within which I can try to determine from cas...”
“There are days when that dark face is something I can think of as a friend a primal energy that carries me forward when nothing else will but more often than not I am face-to-face with a stranger...”
“Is it possible to cause so much misery to another human being, simply by being oneself? she wondered, feeling a reflection of that misery. No help for it; she must continue to be herself.”
“When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image. I think this protagonist, this self, often recognizes that it is a fiction...”
“He was himself, and he knew what he had been.”
“When I wake from my nightmaresIm more afraid of the breath in my lungs than whatever might be chasing me.”
“An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face.”
“I keep on dreaming, but to find freedom, one must first search inwards.”
