Quotes About Self

But who is this self that is to be renounced and to have no benefit? It seems that *you* yourself are supposed to be it. And for whose benefit is unselfish self-renunciation recommended to you? Again, for *your* benefit and behoof, only through that unselfishness you are procuring your "true benefit." You are to benefit *yourself*, and yet you are not to seek *your* benefit

Whoever knows how to take, to defend, the thing, to him belongs property

Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.

Das Göttliche ist Gottes Sache, das Menschliche Sache "des Menschen". Meine Sache ist weder das Göttliche noch das Menschliche, ist nicht das Wahre, Gute, Rechte, Freie usw., sondern allein das Meinige, und sie ist keine allgemeine, sondern ist - einzig, wie Ich einzig bin.

What I have in my power, that is my own. So long as I assert myself as holder, I am the proprietor of the thing

Dem Geiste, der nach langem Mühen die Welt los geworden ist, dem weltlosen Geiste, bleibt nach dem Verluste der Welt und des Weltlichen nichts übrig, als - der Geist und das Geistige.

it is only through the 'flesh' that I can break the tyranny of mind; for it is only when a man hears his flesh along with the rest of him that he hears himself wholly

Now why, if one strives for freedom out of love for the I, why not choose the I itself as beginning, middle and end ? Am I not worth more than freedom? Am I not the one who makes myself free, am I not the first? Even unfree, even in a thousand fetters, still I am; and I do not, like freedom, only exist as a future thing, in hopes, but even as the most degraded slave I am also present.

No dia em que devorares o sagrado, ele torna-se tua propriedade!

A minha causa é a causa de nada.

Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue it is sufficient that they love themselves.

Time is but a phantom dagger That motion lifts to slay itself.

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.

No man is hurt but by himself," said Diogenes.

You are not "inferior." You are not "superior." You are simply "You.

I have found that an easy-to-remember picture of the successful personality is contained in the letters of the word "success" itself. The success-type personality is composed of: Sense of direction Understanding Courage Compassion Esteem Self-Confidence Self-Acceptance

I must repeat: Psycho-Cybernetics does not say that man is a machine. Rather, it says that man has a machine that he uses.

thought to change their thinking of the "self" which was to accomplish these things.

Nothing can work me damage except myself," said St. Bernard.

The self-image can be changed.

create experience and control it, in the laboratory of our minds.

Psycho-Cybernetics does not say that man is a machine. Rather, it says that man has a machine that he uses.

You" as a personality are not in competition with any other personality simply because there is not another person on the face of the earth like you, or in your particular class. You are an individual. You are unique. You are not "like" any other person and can never become "like" any other person. You are not "supposed" to be like any other person and no other person is "supposed" to be like you.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.