Quotes About Self

and the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of ourselves and the world are all-powerful.

When a situation feels like a matter of life and death the deep self is close at hand and it already carries inner medicine and its own life remedy.

Some might ask whether the path is before us or within us. The answer is: Yes. We are both driven from within by our resident spirit and something outside calls forth the genius within us.

The home we are looking for in this world is within us all along. The lost home that we are seeking is ourselves; it is the story we carry within our soul.

Much of the fear of death comes from an intuition that we will be revealed as having avoided encounters with the deep self within us.

Sometimes when you lose your way, you find YOURSELF." ? Mandy Hale Quote

The mind is everything. What you think you become." ? Buddha

Time is the enemy of identity

Farewell, friend. I was a thousand times more evil than thou!

When I got political that blew our marriage out of the water. I was not the same person and I admit that.

Every choice closes doors ," I said, "and at some point you are left in the little room of yourself. I think most people who get to that room go crazy because they're surrounded with missed possibilities and no principle to explain or justify why they made the choices they did. I don't invite unhappiness, Aaron. Avoiding conflict may not be the noblest principle, but it works for me.

There are too many people trying to escape from reality because they do not see their identity as having purpose or meaning.

Personal ideals and values can result in general happiness for society as a whole, if we become fully engaged with the righteousness of the soul mind as the core power of Self.

I am coming to see that it is not so much a question of finding the right place, the right time, the ideal marriage. Neither life nor happiness hinges upon such things. It is wholly within. It is response to what is given. It is choice.

Property was thus appall'd / That the self was not the same / Single nature's double name / Neither two nor one was call'd.

You think that you are an iconoclast, but you're not. You just move, or replace what you cannot have. If you fail at something, you retreat into something else. Nothing changes you.... I left you because I knew I could never change you. You would stand in the room so still sometimes, as if the greatest betrayal of yourself would be to reveal one more inch of your character.

You must have me confused with myself

Or Einstein regenerated, living a life on top of the life he's already led, doomed by the accomplishments of his former self.

Talk of you or me,' he told her, 'but never of 'us.

I'm doing this for me. If I don't become as successful as you all think I would be or should be and you think it tarnishes my career, then that's your own opinion. I'm doing this because I want to come back and I enjoy being in the pool and I enjoy being in the sport of swimming.

Obviously I have this strange animal magnetism. It's very hard to take my eyes off myself.

Only when you bring value to others, will you bring value to yourself.

Nothing the human can read is more interesting than you. Therefore, when the human picks up a book, magazine, or newspaper, you may best assist him or her by interposing your magnificent Self between the page and humanity.

And are you unquestionably certain your haecceity is defined by your moniker?