The Self Quotes

Successful people do what others know they should do but will not. To become a success, or just be *more* successful, you will do what average, less-motivated people will not.

Everyone lives a self-centered life...whether its trivial like what's for breakfast, or more ambitious, like achieving some lofty goal, a person is constantly on her own mind.

We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.

I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.

You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.

Don’t be surprised by your greatness. Be surprised that no one expected it.

There's always the option of deciding for yourself who you are and what you'll become.

When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even thoseyou love.

Wherever you go, there you are.

To be me is to be different...

I protect myself by refusing to know myself.

We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us

My mother always told meNo monster lived beneath my bed, But she had failed to warn meIt laid on top of it instead.

She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.

Like vanishing dew, a passing apparitionor the sudden flashof lightning -- already gone --thus should one regard one's self.

The compass rose is nothing but a star with an infinite number of rays pointing in all directions.It is the one true and perfect symbol of the uni

I can be somebody's and still be my own.

How can I accept a limited definable self when I feel, in me, all possibilities?... I never feel the four walls around the substance of the self, the core. I feel only space. Illimitable space.

There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me, but I had it surgically removed

This accidentalmeeting of possibilitiescalls itself I.I ask: what am I doing here?And, at once, this Ibecomes unreal.

Who are you?'I didn't understand the question.I'm Uri', he said. 'What's your name?'I gave him my name. 'Stopthief.

Now comes the hour to choose between being acceptable to others or being acceptable to one's own self, for we must kill our true selves off in order to survive.

There comes a time when all that remains for us to do is to surrender to the idiosyncrasies of our nature.

Neither you, nor me, are "just vampires." Being vampires is just a part of what we are. There is no need to feel bound and chained by it.

I am a complicated person with a simple life and I am the reason for everything that ever happened to me.

Markings in dry clay disappearOnly when the clay is soft again.Scars upon the self disappearOnly when one becomes soft within.

No aacomplishments are important than self realization of self satisfaction.

My life is one long obstacle course with me as the chief obstacle.

Maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people, " I say. "Maybe we're accumulating these new selves all the time.

And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact of what we really are.

I wanted to stay... me.

Self is a sea boundless and measureless.

I am afraid of darkness... even though it knows me it loves me.

I know about me. I am the moons sister, a tidal child stranded on land. The sea always in my ear, a surf of eternal discontent in my blood.

The philosophical I is not the man, not the human body or the human soul of which psychology treats, but the metaphysical subject, the limit - not a part of the world.

Life can be awkward at times. It is part of the growing process.

When I loved myself enough, I would sometimes wake in the night to music playing within me.

We are, at least in part, who we remember ourselves to be. Take away our memories, and you take away our selves.

As long as you were comfortable with yourself and believed in yourself, then you could just throw out all that nonsense of worrying about your status and "success" and other people's opinions.

The only thing you really have to prove is yourself.

He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glasses.

He liked to get off by himself, a mile or so from camp, and listen to the country, not the men.

Most of us have nicknames—annoying, endearing, embarrassing.But what about your true

None of us just pop into the world fully formed, so it's the little facts that make us.

I killed the Google Alert I used to have on myself two years ago. I don’t need any more information about myself. I get more than enough of that just by being me.

I don't believe anyone who says love, love, love. It means self, self, self.

Most of the tools from medieval times were extensions of the physical self. Tools are now extensions of the mental self.

Great mysteries inhabit the threshold of my being.

For a moment the radio wavered between stationsand I was so busymaking myself marvelous.

Humans have invented all kinds of symbols to communicate not only with other humans but more importantly with ourselves.