4,826 Quotes About Self

i do not want to have youto fill the empty parts of mei want to be full on my own

If you ask me what I live for, I'll say catharsis. And hope. And writing. I'll never be a defeatist

I want you to be able to see me, and as my love for you is so much of me (all of me, making me more than myself) then you must see that too.

it is not exact or relevant to say “I experience” or “I think.” “It” experiences or is experienced, “it” thinks or is thought, is a juster phrase. Experience, a serial course of affairs with their own characteristic properties and relationships, occurs, happens, and is what it is. Among and within these occurrences, not outside of them nor underlying them, are those events which are denominated selves.

Between all the things you stand for and all the things you would fall for; lies the essence of your true self.

Both voice and self are established in early childhood. People who have not been given voice then have the lifelong need to be heard. The self goes under construction with unexpectedly large cost overruns in order to acquire a sense of value and importance.

I’ve often felt that my library explained who I was, gave me a shifting self that transformed itself constantly throughout the years.

I had bought things to tell people a story about who I was, or at least who I wanted them to think I was. By getting rid of those items I was taking back control of who I really was.

She floated near but outside her own body, feeling vague and intense at the same time. Needing nothing. Being what there was.