Self Quotes

My best male friend is my best friend until he crosses me. We're all protective of the self.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.

But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it.

I have never known a really chic woman whose appearance was not, in large part, an outward reflection of her inner self.

I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world.

What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?

I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy.

The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city with horns blowing, the people yelling things at each other, and the all-in-all violence and chaos of the city. Put that on stage with music, and that's what this is.

The goal of art was the vital expression of self.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas.

We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.

You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.

I didn't think I could be my imperfect self. I pretended I was Marcia, so I was always playing this role. I became her, but yet I wasn't. It's strange.

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.

I realized that I needed to be anonymous on the street and somebody else on the stage. I had tried to put my street self on the stage, but what they want is an actor on stage.

I will burn your city, your land, your self.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

That's what fame does to you. You acquire another self.

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.