Quotes About Self

Porque esta guerra não foi feita para vos tirar do país mas para tirar o país de dentro de vós.

O que importa não é passear de noite mas deixar a noite passear-se em nós.

Um homem salva-se se é vontade da sua vida. Os outros são só o alimento dessa vontade.

É que já vivi tudo tão bonito que só quero visitar lugares que estejam dentro de mim.

Eu não tenho apenas sonhos. Eu sou sonhável.

Quem sai do seu lugar, nunca a si mesmo regressa.

Toda a vida acreditei: amor é dois se duplicarem em um. Mas hoje sinto: ser um é ainda muito. De mais. Ambiciono, sim, ser o múltiplo de nada. Ninguém no plural. Ninguéns.

Só há um modo de escapar de um lugar: é sairmos de nós. Só há um modo de sairmos de nós: é amarmos alguém.

Can I truly discover how to integrate myself in the Force if I do not know who I am without it?" - Jacen Solo

Must someone be in some sense a member of a human community, trained in its practices and beholden to its norms, in order to have a "self"? Responses to this issue have divided scholars into the individualist school and the collectivist school.

If only he can get over becoming a NERD.

I will still feel some importance in altering the room, because there you were, the pastiche of some lovely distant star as I surrounded only my small self, still alive.

There are countless reasons for reading, but when you're young and uncertain of your identity, of who you may be, one of the most compelling is the quest to discover yourself reflected in the pages of a book.

we become the stories we tell ourselves

God made us without ourselves," to repeat the much-quoted saying of Saint Augustine, "but He cannot sanctify us without ourselves.

The world is full of hatred because it refuses to be poor. It wants to conquer fear with power. But you will conquer in another way, the unknown way. First, perhaps, you will forget. You will not see. You will not understand. Later you may see, and then you will know that the false self must die in order for the true self to be born.

I sold my soul a long time ago, dear fellow. The rest is all cosmetics and parlor games. Nothing that you say, you admirable, earnest apostle, will touch me in the slightest." "Are you so sure? Isn't every man a mystery to himself?

There's a dialogue between the self and the soul", he said. "They aren't enemies. More like two lenses trying to get in focus.

Man is a creature of Heaven and earth, but he no longer knows it. He no longer knows himself.

Names are strange and special gifts. There are names you give to yourself and names you show to the world, names that stay for a short while and names that remain with you forever, names that come from things you do and names that you receive as presents from other people. If your name is true, it is who you are.

Once established, the level of "self" rarely changes unless a person makes a structured and long-term effort to change it.

Each of us is a "cell" of the Absolute Mind. If we can expand our minds, we can tune into Absolute Mind, the Mind of God. We ourselves, if we can harness Absolute Mind, can become God.

The temple, or the house of God, truly lies within us rather than outside.

Silence, it appears, is not the opposite of sound. It is another world altogether, literally offering a deeper level of thought, a journey to the bedrock of the self.