Quotes About Self

notre personnalité sociale est une création de la pensée des autres. Même l'acte si simple que nous appelons « voir une personne que nous connaissons » est en partie un acte intellectuel

We lack the sense of our own visibility as we lack that of distances, imagining as quite close to us the interested attention of people who on the contrary never give us a thought, and not suspecting that we are at the same moment the sole preoccupation of others.

je cherche encore mon chemin, je tourne une rue… mais… c'est dans mon cœur…

for as the dead exist only in us, it is ourselves that we strike without ceasing when we persist in recalling the blows that we have dealt them.

It is plain that the object of my quest, the truth, lies not in the cup but in myself.

Aunque nada cambie, si yo cambio, todo cambia.

They seemed nothing more now than the purely subjective, impotent, illusory creatures of my temperament

How far can you compromise without seriously violating your identity

Mucho de lo suyo pudo desmoronarse, menos las cosas que le dieron identidad.

La vida consiste en descubrir su propia naturaleza.

Cuando buscas la belleza en el universo, comienzas también a ver tu propia belleza.

You can change your beliefs so they empower dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

It's not easy, you know, to surrender yourself wholeheartedly and generously. Whether the relationship is with God or with another person, there's a great deal of giving-up of self involved in it. I couldn't do it.

Ama o sálvate: elige.

Be mindful at all times of the following: the nature of the whole universe, the nature of the part that is me, the relation of the one to the other, the one so vast, the other so small.

This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs.

True individuality can be lonely.

People don't change that much. Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in. That is hard enough.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life

If you haven't confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

I might have been normal but if I was I cannot remember that time.

The first thought was this: that he was a foolish old man, because all his life he'd been looking for something and it was only when Anna joined him in the bar that evening that he realized that home is not something you find outside yourself; home is something you carry inside you, and it's made from the memories of the people you love, and the people who have loved you.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

The spirit is the true self.