Quotes About Self

From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.

the problem might be she calls herself "she" ...

My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.

The mind in its great sublime bliss is nondual, being neither self nor others, for it perceives intrinsic reality, which is before one, behind one, and around one in all the ten directions.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

The free-lovers say: "Let us have the splendour of offering ourselves without the peril of committing ourselves; let us see whether one cannot commit suicide an unlimited number of times." Emphatically it will not work.

No matter what happens, always be yourself.

Doubt everything. Find your own light." —Last words of Gautama Buddha, in Theravada tradition

Sometimes when we think we're protecting ourselves, we're really hurting ourselves. And sometimes the people around us too.

Is it fun being you?

I think the secret of memoirs is keeping those parts of yourself off the page, which makes what you do share more valuable.

Interesting how the self can be split into segments, orgasm and observation at the same time, the eye that watches the I. Neither is me, but both might be.

Something in him has changed, he can't seem to connect properly with the world. He feels this not as a failure of the world but as a massive failing in himself, he would like to change it but doesn't know how. In his clearest moments he thinks that he has lost the ability to love, people or places or things, most of all the person and place and thing that he is. Without love nothing has value, nothing can be made to matter very much.

Her own voice sounds echoey, as if somebody else is speaking.

The only difference between you and God is that you have forgotten you are divine.

There are so many people we could become, and we leave such a trail of bodies through our teens and twenties that it's hard to tell which one is us. How many versions do we abandon over the years?

There is a stage you reach, Deagle thinks, a time somewhere in early middle age, when your past ceases to be about yourself. Your connection to your former life is like a dream or delirium, and that person who you once were is merely a fond acquaintance, or a beloved character from a storybook. This is how memory becomes nostalgia. They are two very different things - the same way that a person is different from a photograph of a person.

We leave such a trail of bodies through our teens and twenties that it's hard to tell which one is us. How many versions do we abandon over the years

Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.

Leaving Identity Issues to Other Folks

Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.

People are what they do. They are what they say. They are what they want. They are what they remember and what they have forgotten; the motives they reveal and the motives they try to hide. They are their bodies, their voices, the movements of their eyes and hands. Beneath these and other such manifestations of selfhood, it is impossible to go. The "reasons" why people are as they are will always remain hidden not only from outsiders but from themselves too.

subjectivity of experience presupposes an apprehension of the distinction between one's own experiences and the experience of others,