64 Quotes About Sense-of-self

Pour la première fois de ma vie, ce "moi" semblait se partager et la découverte d'une telle dualité m'étonnait prodigieusement.

What we do & do not do are shaped by our sense of how others are - shared understanding of right & wrong, good & bad, valuable & worthless.

The whole thing, the way it all happened, was shattering. And what it shattered most of all was some conception I'd had of myself, some wholeness.

One way to think of this dignity is to equate when you are on the path with unraveling a ball of yarn. You have wound your sense of self so tightly that it's hard to be anything other than you, a big ball of yarn. That's just who you are, not string, or threads, but a ball of yarn.

You are unique in your own existence.

seeking a place to rest my head without shameseeking a father who never worried about meseeking a mother whose body never hurtseeking the piano that could play itselfseeking a person who wants to meet me on a trainseeking a person who knows where estonia isseeking my sense of self i never found–seekingan end to all of this.

He had left her among his belongings as if she was one too.

Unlike simple stress, trauma changes your view of your life and yourself. It shatters your most basic assumptions about yourself and your world — “Life is good,” “I’m safe,” “People are kind,” “I can trust others,” “The future is likely to be good” — and replaces them with feelings like “The world is dangerous,” “I can’t win,” “I can’t trust other people,” or “There’s no hope.

To give value to others, you have to begin by valuing yourself.