Quotes About Self

the bad things you do become part of you, literally.

guess you're right," the woman said. "You blame everything on that one person. You think if that one person is gone, everything will be perfect and good." She slid her sunglasses back on. "But in the end, that person is you.

The hardest thing in this world is finding out what you're capable of.

When you're in the sciences, when you know about things like neuronal biochemistry and the complex interplay between, say, hormones and emotion, you might imagine you have a deep understanding of the mind. 'Explain to me why I feel this way, think this way, dream this way, am this way.' But consider it: Would you really want to know?

I've invented it, because there is no other word that celebrates the genius that is me.

Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy.

I turned only halfway, gave him half my attention. Half of myself. "Are you ever going to be happy again?

A man's idea of God corresponds to his ideal of himself. The nobler he is, the more exalted his God.

Every day, I live a lie But not the crocodile kind.

The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves make us who we are.

He's as ambivalent about raising a family as I am, but he'll do it because I asked him to. And until now, I tried convincing myself that it was the praiseworthy decision. But is it the right choice for the babies? For Ram? For me? But I'm not supposed to think about what's best for me, am I?

Maybe the supreme self-confidence I envied in Pepe was nothing more than cleverly masked insecurity.

If the desire to have children is just a way to build some noisy tribe of distraction around oneself, then I'd rather be alone.

while remaining fundamentally—and sometimes maddeningly—who we are.

One does not have to be Christian to see that [John] Donne was right. To be ill is to recognize this interconnectedness -- to understand how much we are "a part of the main." But to be ill in America today is to be brought up against the pathology of a culture that denies this fact. In the worst moments of my illness, I was alone because of the ways that we have allowed ourselves to believe that the self, rather than the community, must do all the healing.

Absolute honesty is essential in one's search for God (Truth). The subtleties of the Path are finer than a hair. The least hypocrisy becomes a wave that washes one off the Path. It is your false self that keeps you away from your true Self by every trick it knows. In the guise of honesty this self even deceives itself. For instance your self claims, I love Baba. The fact is, if you really loved Baba you would not be your false self making the self-asserting statement!

When the bubble of ignorance bursts the self realizes its oneness with the indivisible Self. Words that proceed from the Source of Truth have real meaning. But when men speakthese words as their own, the words become meaningless.

To attain union is so impossibly difficult because it is impossible to become what you already are! Union is nothing other than knowledge of oneself as the Only One.

Give your freedom to someone or to something and then look at yourself what have you got? I tell you, you've got nothing left!

Help is not in the sky, help is within you, in your mind; help is your reason! Turn your face to your reason not to the sky!

Leave your coast to discover your true self!

My name will live forever, but I should not care about this at all, because I am not my name and my name is not me!

The Sun has no chance to be nobody and that is the punishment for being a sun! If you can be nobody just like a humble tree in a silent forest, you can find the happiness too!

You may cross many bridges and you may travel many roads, but you will always carry your own nature with you! Your nature is your shadow!