The Self Quotes

The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is.

Writing my blog has saved me thousands on therapy.

It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others think of your lack of continuity.

she had something I could not have, and so I resented her—but I realized the fault was mine and not hers.

It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim.

It was the most amazing feeling in the world. to know that something right happened, and to know that it had happened not through luck or command but simply because it was right.

You find out who you are by figuring out who and what you're not

I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all.

It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't be torn if the pages all held together.

Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take.

I suppose we all lie to ourselves sometimes.

What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.

Giving yourself is the ultimate revolution.

A lonely impulse of delight

Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie.

Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drinks all around.

When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.

Recalibration of the mind means clearing our perceptions and recovering our capacity for pure observation.

Attention has its most powerful expression in purposeful action.

It takes a good habit to replace a bad habit.

Shut off the internal bashing.

You have the approval of yourself. That's quite enough for we who know true inner peace! - Charmainism

Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.

Life is not about finding your true self, but creating who you wish to be.

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.

From self alone expect applause.

There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.

Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.

I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.

Conquer but never triumph.

The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.

To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.

When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.

Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.

The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.

Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.

Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.

It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen.

The surest sign of fitness is success.

Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.

There is no such thing as vicarious experience.

I am my own heaven and hell!

The basic freedom of the world is woman's freedom.

You got nothin' to lose but your self-respect.

Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.

I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.

Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed.

My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially.