Aleksandar Hemon Quotes

We're all the stories we tell ourselves.

People are the story they tell themselves.

The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves makes us who we are.

Who are we but the stories we tell about ourselves, particularly if we accept them?

In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell to others.

Every day we choose who we are by how we define ourselves.

Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory.

We seem, particularly over here in the West and in America in particular, to have forgotten that we are, in large measures, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves.

If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.

I think there's a natural link between the fact that our self is a story that we make up and that we're drawn to stories. It resonates, in a way.

I think everyone self-mythologizes.

Personality for me is the strongest statement.

As human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by — so you’d better be careful what stories you tell yourself.

Each decision - to kill, to sign a petition, to write a letter, to make a speech, to attack, to lie, to surrender - was made at some point in somebody's day.

we become the stories we tell ourselves

Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us.

All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character-what we believe-none of it is real; it's all part of the story we tell. But here's the thing: it's our goddamned story!

What we know about who we are comes from stories. It's the agents of our imagination who really shape who we are.

I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact.

We have so many ideas and beliefs about ourselves. We told ourselves story about what we want and who we are, smart or kind. Often these are the unexamined and limited ideas of others that we have internalized and then gone on to life out.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

If the only vision we have of ourselves comes from the social mirror - from the current social paradigm and from the opinions, perceptions, and paradigms of the people around us - our view of ourselves is like the reflection in a crazy mirror room at the carnival.

Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or enemy, mother or friend, those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the different facets of our characters like diamond-cutter's tools. Each such loss is a step leading to the grave, where all versions blend and end.

People are not their behaviors.

Each person tells you who they think they are, and who they think you are.