Quotes About Self

See the colorful possibilities from our life, we are self the creator from It to make a decision or stop it.stop

We can make self the Colors in Our Life and it's so Sorry if we Meet People that Show us the Dark Side.

I think you could say I came to the end of myself. I really did want a show all my own, and he had to hammer me pretty hard to make me see that it was all his. We don't like relinquishing the power we never had anyway, even though running the show ourselves never works. I surrendered everything to him. What did I have to lose?

God is in love with you, brother. He made you for himself.

Self discovery is something you cannot buy

Hebt u nog ouwe spulletjes? Alleen mezelf.

Making a self can be like writing, and now I think writing can be like home: a space you make that you dwell in and roam through for hours every day, a space that's absolutely yours.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

after all your talk of food … you're still hungry after all your talk of clothes … you're still cold eating rice is what fills your belly wearing clothes is what keeps you warm without really thinking it through you grumble that the way to find Buddha is difficult look inside your heart … there's Buddha don't look for him outside your self —HAN SHAN, The View from Cold Mountain

The challenge is not to be perfect…it's to be whole

Is there world enough for me?

Her mother was fine. Her mother was always fine. Fine was her way of saying she didn't exist.

To Hear the Falling World Only if I move my arm a certain way, it comes back. Or the way the light bends in the trees this time of year, so a scrap of sorrow, like a bird, lights on the heart. I carry this in my body, seed in an unswept corner, husk-encowled and seeming safe. But they guard me, these small pains, from growing sure of myself and perhaps forgetting.

It is, of course, we who house poems as much as their words, and we ourselves must be the locus of poetry's depth of newness. Still, the permeability seems to travel both ways: a changed self will find new meanings in a good poem, but a good poem also changes the shape of the self.

One useful way to approach a haiku is to understand each of its parts as pointing toward both world and self. Read this way, haiku remind that a person should not become too fixed in a singular sense of what the self might consist of or know, or where it might reside.

those who follow their own breath will come to know both Being's nature and their own.

Only remembering that a self in exile is still a self, as a bell unstruck for years is still a bell.

The self in exile remains the self, as a bell unstruck for years is still a bell.

The more we cling to the belief in a self, the more pain and alienation we feel.

Enlightenment is the total sense of freedom that comes from letting go of the concept of being an individual "self".

Enlightenment is the total sense of freedom that comes from letting go of the concept of being an individual "self". It is a long journey towards being able to trust that such freedom is possible.

discovered in herself a still, quiet center she had never suspected to exist.

This long struggle to be at home in the body, this difficult friendship.

Your child is constantly making decisions about himself and the world, and how to find belonging and significance in that world.