The Self Quotes

He doesn't have anything like wisdom of age or hindsight. He's a biased historian of self, an emotional revisionist. We all are, for the most part.

At one point in my life you'll have my best but not my whole.

It is when you start to have the interest of people in your heart that when you start to make a change.

We are just a certain quantity of cells, all of us!

It’s ego – the false self – that exalts the guru and declares the teaching sacred, but nothing is exalted or sacred, only true or not true.

Nature has gone to great lengths to hide our subconscious from ourselves. Why?

I lose part of myself that day and I don't want to lose even more.

When I said, “I am my mother, but I’m not, ” I was saying my path would be my own.

Your mind is a treasure house that you should stock well and it’s the one part of you the world can’t interfere with.

From human problems come human solutions, which in turn spawn inspiration, creativity, insight and enlightenment. Without life's problems, life would become stagnant, dull and boring.

Since I am never alone with myself. Since I am always watching the character playing my part in the scene, there is no possibility of spontaneity.

The self was both its origins and its journey.

There is no shame in having been the woman I was. She made me the woman I am.

always say something! is either to yourself or to the world around!

Love yourself enough to open your eyes, and open your eyes enough to love yourself.

We lose ourselves in things we love. We find ourselves there, too.

...we fear monsters because we fear the dark parts of ourselves...

Do not compare yourself with anybody. Compare yourself with yourself, for yourself and by yourself. We are all uniquely pottered and purposed by our creator!

I figure the more people think I'm just mildly weird, the less likely they are to know how weird I really am.

...we each harbor a shadow self with shadowy motives and murky desires...

...people demonize certain types of crime - it's a way of distancing ourselves from the monsters...

...ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know...

In truth, there is no such thing as an “intuitive boundary” of a sensory state. That most philosophers take such states as brain-bound is not an intuition, but a prejudice.

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor - to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

We have to serve ourself many years before we gain our own confidence.

the abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror - we all have it - that shadow self - that dark heart...

An apology given just to appease one's conscience is self-serving and better left unspoken!

There is only one you. Stop trying to devalue yourself by trying to be a copy of someone else.

The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times.

You're a Genius all the time

I simply love being me. You have no power to control my feelings because I own my own heart

The harsh reality is that my flesh must die not so much because of what it does, but because of what it is.

What an idiot I'd been. What a spoilt brat. What a bloody fool.

But, it’s not what they think of you that matters, it’s what you think of yourself. If I’d said something mean to them, I wouldn't like myself very much.

But now the other half of "us" was gone and, lying there in my shadowy room, I'd be struck with this realization that I had no clue how to be just me again.

We are whiplashed between an arrogant overestimation of ourselves and a servile underestimation of ourselves.

To know yourself you must know the transience of your self.

To seek contentment is to release the novelty that lies within monotony

A truly free man is not free 'from' anything, nor free 'to' anything, he is just free. Free within himself.

I? This is the very root of all evil.

I wondered what it would be like to be just myself all the time, but my self seemed to be far away, and made up of all sorts of things that didn't really exist.

You speak as if this is a good world with a little evil in it. Rubbish. It's a hellish one where the best a man can do is put a little sanity back and look after his own.

There was a difference, I had decided, between knowing and believing. And I wanted both.

On my fifteenth birthday, I came to realize that the expression spoiled rotten meant exactly that. We kids were the apples of our parents' eyes, and I, for one, was rotting from inside out.

The "self, " it seems today, is at the core of the nation's worldview rather than others (the common good), or God.

I think I’d rather be branded than submit to some of the things that you have to.” He said this without spite, just a soft statement of fact. “I’m not strong enough to do that.

If I am not for myself, who will be?

God created you for His high purpose, discovering and understanding that that purpose is important

I am unique.I have mission.I have a calling.I will fulfill my highest potential and calling.

A monster that refused, sometimes, to behave like a monster. When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?