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Quotes About Self

In the end, like the Almighty Himself, we make everything in our image, for want of a more reliable model; our artifacts tell more about ourselves than our confessions.
~ Joseph Brodsky
A je?li kto? ci? zapyta kim jeste??, to odpowiedz Ja jestem Nikt - jak rzek? niegdy? Polifemowi Odys.
~ Joseph Brodsky
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
~ Joseph Campbell
How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.
~ Joseph Campbell
You are the Hero of your own Story.
~ Joseph Campbell
The hero of yesterday becomes the tyrant of tomorrow, unless he crucifies himself today.
~ Joseph Campbell
The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is the whole range of possibilities that you've never even thought of. And you're stuck with you're past when you're stuck with the ego. Because if all you know about yourself is what you found out about yourself, well, that already happened. The self is a whole field of potentialities to come through.
~ Joseph Campbell
We no longer desire and fear; we are what was desired and feared.
~ Joseph Campbell
La imagen interior del hombre no debe confundirse con su atuendo.
~ Joseph Campbell
One of the many distinctions between the celebrity and the hero, he said, is that one lives for self while the other acts to redeem society.
~ Joseph Campbell
Only when that mortal "you" will have erased everything about itself that it cherishes and is holding to, will "you" have come to the brink of an experience of identity with that Being which is no being yet is the Being beyond the nonbeing of all things. Nor is It anything that you have ever known, ever named, or even thought about in this world:
~ Joseph Campbell
And more important, all the life-potentialities that we never managed to bring to adult realization, those other portions of ourself, are there; for such golden seeds do not die. If only a portion of that lost totality could be dredged up into the light of day, we should experience a marvelous expansion of our powers, a vivid renewal of life.
~ Joseph Campbell
Qué soy? ¿Soy la lámpara que transporta la luz, o soy la luz y la lámpara es mi vehículo?
~ Joseph Campbell
The ultimate dragon is within you. It is your ego clamping you down.
~ Joseph Campbell
Follow your bliss.
~ Joseph Campbell
A félelem az elsÅ' tapasztalat, és ez a tapasztalat azt mondja: én.
~ Joseph Campbell
The things that make me different are the things that make me ME. -Piglet
~ A. A. Milne
You have to trust your body to take care of you.
~ A. J. Langer
I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
~ A. N. Wilson
You are braver then you believe, stronger then you seem, and smarter then you think.
~ a.a milne
And I'd say to myself as I looked so lazily down at the sea: "There's nobody else in the world, and the world was made for me.
~ A.A. Milne
Now, I'd suggest you take your little self on home and stop believing that because of this new political climate we've been thrust into that you can say and do whatever you want to good God-fearing people. Because you see, the Lord may have said that 'vengeance is mine', but a good ass-whoopin' can come from anyone. You need to remember that." Mia
~ A.C. Arthur
Limit your life to concentration on the self and your world can only be small. Embrace interconnectedness and unity and the world becomes endlessly full of possibilities.
~ A.C. Ping
The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one. A Stanford study showed that those who saw a photo of their future self made smarter financial decisions.
~ A.J. Jacobs