Quotes About Self

Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.

Keep on being yourself.

Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.

No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves

All my life, I have made it complicated, but it is so simple. I love when I love. And when I love, I am myself.

Your Treasure House is in yourself, it contains all you need

He who makes a beast of himself relieves himself the pain of being a man.

One who pursues a goal through sinful ways, will ironically distance himself from that goal, and will approach what he was afraid of.

Religion is the call to confront reality to master the self.

The game can be won or lost, but not the player himself. If he has worked hard, he has improved his game and indeed his faculties; this happens in defeat fully as much as in victory. As the contestant is related to his total person, so is the finite self of any particular lifetime related to its underlying Atman.

The only thing you have 100% control over is you.

The only thing you have 100 percent control over is you.

Sometimes the thoughts and feelings I had didn't really agree with each other, so I decided I must be lots of different people inside my brain.

We are what we believe we are at given times.

It's all because of me isn't it? It's all my fault?

Each of us becomes a new person as we redescribe the past.

Purpose of Life: Understand Who You Are Believe In Yourself.

what came naturally to Hitler was to stoke up the hatred of others by pouring out to them the hatred that was so deeply embedded in himself.

If God truly were inside you, could you bear to look at it? Necdet says.

Time entered the small and tightly bounded universe and gave all things a past out of which they had come, a present through which they were passing, and a future toward which they were progressing. All things. Except himself.

All things. Except himself. He had only present. There was no past to direct him toward a future. There was no remembering of a time before. Before?

Somos tan egocéntricos que nos creemos la medida de todas las cosas, pero el tiempo nos arrebatará todo lo que somos, todo lo que tenemos, todo lo que llegaremos a construir.

Ipseity is essentially just another way to say selfhood or individuality