Quotes About Self

The emptiness of play is when there is no self present. There is no one playing - there is only play itself taking place, perfect fluid motion.

When someone wants to lose weight, they will do whatever it takes. They can't do it for anyone else but themselves. It has to be for them alone. Without that understanding, they will fail.

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

The mind will enchain yourself, others or both. Your heart will set you / them free

Generally someone will eventually tell you that you have to do something to help yourself.

The best of who you are is not from who you have in your life, rather who they helped you become because they loved you.

Somehow, we each create our own prison, for which only we, hold the key to freedom.

Purpose of Life: Understand Who You AreBelieve In Yourself.

If one is sick, one is usually the last person to know.

What good is a fragile spirit, as when touched, shatters into a thousand pieces.

Don't let your history hinder you from your destiny... you are only held back by yourself! You aren't what they say you were, you are who God says you are!!

Autobiography is a wound where the blood of history does not dry.

The turning point in history will be the moment man becomes aware that the only god of man is man himself.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.

I am not a chess historian - I myself am a piece of chess history, which no one can avoid. I will not write about myself, but I am sure that someone will write.

I couldn't say who I am, I haven't the remotest notion of myself; I am someone without antecedents, without a history, without a country, and on that I insist!

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history.

I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.

History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.

The ego is a self-justifying historian which seeks only that information that agrees with it, rewrites history when it needs to, and does not even see the evidence that threatens it.

When you study history, you're really studying yourself. Every bit of history I've uncovered about my own family has some remnant in myself.

I have no history but the length of my bones.

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.