Quotes About Self

Don't deceive yourself with you age, it is just a number.

Every now and then the government must defend itself against itself.

Everyone thinks that his own thoughts are best but finds no inspiration.

Giving advice to others is not really as helpful as if you yourself act upon that.

God gave you life not for how you define him but he wants to see that how you can define yourself.

Never have more faith in the world that you do in yourself.

No one really knows about you better than your own shadow.

None of us knows who we are.

People are sometimes not ready to accept what they are able to do something or not.

We are only what our thinking makes us.

There is no real independent self, aloof from other human beings, inspecting the world, inspecting other people. You are, in fact, connected not just via Facebook and Internet, you're actually quite literally connected by your neurons.

Do not reward performance. Rather, respond to Spirit expressing the Way. You are a mirror with which your child sees — and corrects — himself.

I wish they would take me as I am.

You have changed since then, you are no longer the same." Well, that is not entirely true. What has changed is that my life then was less difficult and my future seemingly less gloomy, but as far as my inner self, my way of looking at things and of thinking is concerned, that has not changed. But if there has indeed been a change, then it is that I think, believe and love more seriously now what I thought, believed and loved even then.

To live is an art, we are all artists of our own lives.

Don't worship saints or sinners, for both demand your soul, and each man's soul should be his own.

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their god.

Particularly difficult for partners is the reassertion of self, unless they have been very strong as individuals throughout the partnership. Learning to say 'I' instead of 'We' can be a painful task for two people who have grown into each other and become enmeshed.

In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is the very opposite of what is above.

A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many thousand.

If a king goes mad, and runs about trying to find the king of his country, he will never find him, because he is the king himself.

O king, such are the, glorious qualities of the Lord that the sages whose only pleasure is in the Self, and from whom all fetters have fallen off, even they love the Omnipresent with the love that is for love's sake.

The presence in a memoir or an essay of the truth speaker - the narrator that a writer pulls out of his or her own agitated and boring self to organize a piece of experience - it was about this alone that I felt I had something to say; and it was to those works in which such a narrator comes through strong and clear that I was invariably drawn.

Everyone who had ever cared to investigate the nature of human loneliness had seen that only one's own working mind breaks the solitude of the self.