Manuel Puig Quotes

Although men are accused of not knowing their weakness, yet perhaps as few know their strength.

It's really hard to foster self-love; it really is. I think a lot of people who claim that they do have a definite lack of self-loathing are either lying or just in a place that I don't relate to.

For me, life isn't about being recognized or having everyone know who I am. That's not why I'm here. To me, my foundation is the most important thing I do or have ever done. That's what my life is about.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

I just have to be myself. I'm not perfect, and I'm going to make mistakes; I might say the wrong thing. I have to be responsible to my community, and I feel like I am, but then I have to not be so hard on myself.

What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.

A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.

Intrinsically, I'm the same person I was as a young lad, and I think I still have the optimism of life, still the same wants and desires to be good and great about what I do.

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.

I don't know about an awful lot of stuff. I'm not educated. I left school when I was 16, with no qualifications. The thing that I do know about is my feelings and what I think of the world and what I think of me.

Knowing ourselves and how we feel can help us improve.

I don't know how smart I am. I just try to be what I am. I hope I'm modest. I think that's a desirable trait.

I just want to be the greatest man that I can be while I'm alive, and in that, you have to find the truth. Find the hard truth about yourself.

I understand my own strengths.

What I use when I'm acting comes from what I learn about myself.

The real existential challenge is to live up to your fullest potential, along with living up to your intense sense of responsibility and to be honest to yourself about what you want.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

I hope that I'm also maturing emotionally as a human being as things go on.

It sounds really cheesy, but as a woman, I feel like I sort of found myself.

My confidence comes from the realisation that, actually, the best you can be is you, learning to accept who I was, what I wanted, and that I was more than my body.

I started coming into my own at 30, discovering what's important to me, not caring what other people think.

I don't find it distracting to be me.