Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you.
Masamune ShirowOne of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.
K.L. TothTags: identity philosophy loss sadness self tragedy confusion sense-of-self mask
Caroline had felt more comfortable thinking of beauty as something separate from her, like a scarf or a coat you could check before going in to a show. She wondered now, however, if she had treated more things as a part of herself rather than an accessory, perhaps everything would have turned out differently.
Erica BauermeisterTags: beauty self accessories
When I said, “I am my mother, but I’m not,” I was saying my path would be my own.
Terry Tempest WilliamsIt does wonders for my own psyche to turn envy into inspiration. No matter how successful we become, we're never above that.
Hillman CurtisTags: art success inspiration self design envy psyche
I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.
Roger ZelaznyTags: life growing-up moving-on self growth moving-forward corwin
The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is the whole range of possibilities that you've never even thought of. And you're stuck with you're past when you're stuck with the ego. Because if all you know about yourself is what you found out about yourself, well, that already happened. The self is a whole field of potentialities to come through.
Joseph CampbellThe sword wears out its sheath, as it is sometimes said. That is my story. My passions have made me live, and my passions have killed me. What passions, it may be asked. Trifles, the most childish things in the world. Yet they affected me as much as if the possessions of Helen, or the throne of the Universe, had been at stake.
Jean-Jacques RousseauSunny put on eyebrows, eyelashes, makeup, matching pajamas, a silk robe, and then say looking at herself in the vanity mirror in her bathroom. She had experienced moments in her life when she realized that she was actually alive and living in the world, instead of watching a movie starring herself, or narrating a book with herself as the main character. This was not one of those moments. She felt like she was drifting one centimeter above her physical self, a spirit at odds with its mechanical counterpart. She stood up carefully. Everything looked just right.
Lydia NetzerTags: life consciousness self
Love yourself enough to open your eyes, and open your eyes enough to love yourself.
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