Quotes About Self

Yeah. Because tonight I was that drawing. I always thought I knew exactly who I was. Then a simple shift of perspective, and I see a different me. Which one is real and which is fiction?

Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages.

It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We

Freedom is being able to choose whoever and whatever you want to be at any moment in your life.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.

Choosing not to feel pain is choosing a sort of death, a withering away of the expansive self.

The path you are on is one you chose for yourself

Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.

Bring your own body.

I am a book I neither wrote nor read.

The best order of things, to my way of thinking, is the one I was meant to be part of, and to hell with the most perfect of worlds if I am not of it.

Before this moment I'd lived as a mind. Body, heart, soul, intellect, so we care ourselves into parts. But the whole of us, what can it be?

It was all right to be who he was, but others would probably think it was terrible. A couple of times in the past he'd reached this absolute zero of the truth, and without fear or bitterness he realized now that somewhere inside it there was a move he could make to change his life, to become another person, but he'd never be able to guess what it was.

I'm telling you it's cold inside the body that is not the body, lonesome behind the face that is certainly not the face of the person one meant to become.

Buddhist Barbie In the 5th century B.C. an Indian philosopher Gautama teaches All is emptiness and There is no self. In the 20th century A.D. Barbie agrees, but wonders how a man with such a belly could pose, smiling, and without a shirt.

Your identity doesn't come from your address.

Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is.

A man is the stories he tells about himself, and most of those stories are lies.

A man is the stories he tells about himself and most of those stories are lies. And never look too closely if you uncover his lies, it will humiliate you both. Its best to just live with the bullshit." Then her mother kissed her head, patted her cheek, told her she was safe.

I am part animal and part God.

Make yourselves your island, make yourselves, not anyone else, your refuge; make the Dharma your island, the Dharma your refuge, nothing else your refuge.

Hate, hatred for yourself, for other people, will confine you, but love can set you free.

Favor and disgrace make one fearful The greatest misfortune is the self