Self Quotes

We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls...

[T]he Enneagram is, at its most abstract, a universal mandala of the self—a symbol of each of us.

You only exist because of the agreements you made with yourself and with the other humans around you.

... telling herself stories about herself in a singsong voice, creating her own mythology.

I closed my eyes, tried to get as far away from myself as I could.

She filled herself entirely with the molten dark.

...the other's self, that enormous hulking thing each possessed, that a self of course is not inconsequential. p124

The one who loves you has the right to tick you off, to correct you when you go wrong and admonish you when you repeat.

Is there any escaping the junkshop of the self?

If you are free to be yourself, You would love to be yourself.

Make an attempt to know yourself out of your comfort zone, you will see how how amazing you are.

You do it best, when you put your true color in it.

Love yourself for who you are, you worth it.

Seek thy sacred self.

She was tired of everyone deciding her life for her. She was ready to figure out who she really was--not what anyone else told her to be.

What it is, ” she sighed, “to have to choose between self and security.

We all get to discover who we really are at some point, and when we do, it can be quite unsettling.

Sometimes one must become something one fears or loathes in order for the greater self to survive.

Time alone can help us to look inward, to fish for things that others can’t see.

Khuda tujhe kisi toofaan se aashna karde, Ke tere behr ki maujon men iztiraab naheenMay God grant you a storm! The voyage of your life is on too placid an ocean…

Khird-Mandon Se Kya Puchon Ke Meri Ibtida Kya HaiKe Main Iss Fikar Mein Rehta Hun, Meri Intiha Kya HaiWhat should I ask the sages about my origin:I am always wanting to know my goal.

It’s time to accept that I am average, and to stop making this acceptance of my averageness into a bereavement.

Now, four years out of high school, I'm in an environment where people appreciate personality over appearance, and that makes me happy.

Life is beyond self.

Be confident enough to show your true self to the world.

A person has to be comfortable in his or her own skin.

There’s no point pretending to be someone or something we’re not.

We should be authentic: the ‘real deal’. Neither a clone nor mimic be.

​Till mirrors were Invented, Face was not You, Not Even part of Your Performance.

I'm not even who I am, yet.

I can confidently state that the greatest rescues in my life have occurred when I’ve been saved from myself.

Your transparency is just another one of your disguises, isn't it? You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.

I don’t like being left for long struggling with my dangerous self.

If it has anything to do with me, it has nothing to do with sacrifice.

Currents of desire and excitement that she had not known or thought about for years now flooded in her. She wanted him to bring alive what she had buried, and to demean, destroy, her fabricated self.

In a world of selfie-addiction smile usually is the brand name for an essential drug called pretense

Ego is borne of the need to ‘prove’ oneself instead of making the choice to ‘be’ oneself. And so maybe we need to begin curbing the birthrate.

He thought about how the camera makes one fall in love with an image of oneself, and perpetuates a false reality.

Silence, it appears, is not the opposite of sound. It is another world altogether, literally offering a deeper level of thought, a journey to the bedrock of the self.

Preachers love only their own voices.

Self-serving mentality hinders from fulfilling kingdom mandate

One of the ability of humility is the ability to take the second place without striving for self-promotion

The majority of men could sooner be brought to believe themselves a piece of lava in the moon than to take themselves for a self.

It's amazing how close you are to your essential self as a kid, he thought, and how far from it you drift the more you strive to be loved.

The moment you are more interested and obsessed to others you begin to loose your Self . It's so insane that you again seek others to help find self.

To Live In The Original Intention Of God Is To Chase Self Destruction Away

Most important, of course, we all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero.

Some humans are so consumed with trying to control the outcomes of their own lives that they don’t have any idea the part they play in the outcome of someone else’s.

Refuse the old means of measurement.Rely instead on the thrumming wilderness of self. Listen.-From "Out West

You grow. You are large. You are a 19th century poem.All of America is inside you, a catalogue of lives and landand burrowing things.-From "Catalogue