myself Quotes

“The entire narrative of this country argues against the truth of who you are.”

“When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.”

“The natural appeal of this authoritative imagery is to me, at first, very small. At first sight it chills, rather than awakes, my desire. And that is just what I ought to expect. If Christianity could tell me no more of the far-off land than my own temperament led me to surmise already, then Christianity would be no higher than myself.”

“Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.”

“Because the truth is that my God is coming back. When he arrives I’ll be waiting for him with a shotgun. And I’m keeping the last shell for myself.”

“I change myself, I change the world.”

“Although divorce was harder than a death, still I felt oddly returned to myself after many years in a close family.”

“The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday, that’s guaranteed. And I can’t begin to explain that- or the craziness inside myself and everybody else, but guess what? Sunday is my fav day again”

“There will always be a part of me that is dirty and sloppy, but I like that, just like all the other parts of myself.”

“If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?”

“I planned to waste away and die, but there is a spirit of life, even in one such as myself, that stands in the way of such decisions. ”

“And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.”

“In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.”

“I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed.”

“Every now and then I could see myself—truly see myself—and a sentence would come to me, thundering like a god into my head, and as I saw myself then in front of that tarnished mirror what came was the woman with the hole in her heart.”

“And shall I pray Thee change Thy will, my Father, Until it be according unto mine? But, no, Lord, no, that never shall be, rather I pray Thee blend my human will with Thine.”

″‘If I ever meet myself,’ said Zaphod, ‘I’ll hit myself so hard I won’t know what’s hit me.’”

“I wanted only to try to live in accord with the prompting which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?”

“Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it’s all evaporating. I continuously feel that I was someone else, that I felt something else, that I thought something else. What I’m attending here is a show with another set. And the show I’m attending is myself.”

“I am throwing the party for the sake of itself, for your self, and for my self.”

“A brief study of Heroes in Verse and Prose, made up and told in several attic rooms by my Great-grandfather and myself.”