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Quotes About Self

You can't be yourself within jealousy.
~ Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
warm-heartedness generally begins at home, and those who are warm to others are warmer to themselves; it is but the overflow.
~ Constance Fenimore Woolson
Beating drums while doing a kindness to someone is a very ugly show of ego!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Kindness in your dealings with yourself and others will work wonders in your life. Much more so than rightness in your thinking.
~ Kim R. Shaffer
True wealth is having your health, and knowledge of self.
~ Immortal Technique
I grew up in them streets, like everyone else but instead of pushin' drugs, I pushed knowledge of self
~ KRS-One
Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
~ Jonathan Edwards
I know that I exist; the question is, What is this 'I' that 'I' know.
~ Rene Descartes
Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.
~ D.T. Suzuki
Knowledge that takes you, not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance.
~ Elif Safak
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
~ F. H. Bradley
The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.
~ Plato
God will give you more knowledge about yourself than you could ever think to know.
~ Jesse Duplantis
The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality
~ Robert W. Firestone
Knowledge and ego are directly related. the less knowledge, the greater the ego
~ Albert Einstein
Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge
~ Socrates
I had no immediate knowledge of the world of Batman at all. I'm quite incubated. I just keep myself to myself and my dog.
~ Tom Hardy
Uno lo sabe, sabe que tuvo esa experiencia, que se la metió a esa mujer en otra vida, con otro yo del que sin embargo hay constancia, más que memoria.
~ Javier Marías
mis recuerdos que al igual que tantas de mis pertenencias me sirven tan sólo a mí y se hacen inútiles si yo me muero, no sólo desaparece quien soy sino quien he sido, no sólo yo, pobre Marta, sino mi memoria entera, un tejido discontinuo y siempre inacabado y cambiante y estampado de sietes
~ Javier Marías
El de entonces soy yo todavía, o si no soy él soy su prolongación, o su sombra, o su heredero, o su usurpador. No hay ningún otro que se le parezca tanto.
~ Javier Marías
I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.
~ Jay London
We put great expectations on our tomorrows when we truly need to rely on ourselves. Far too many overlook personal action, as a means to get things done. Blame is easily passed if one does not hold themselves accountable.
~ Jay Long
To me, God is a name that humans give to all that is. Experientially, it is whatever is left over when the delusion of the self is taken away.
~ Jay Michaelson
It is not an easy thing to alter the trajectory of your life. People have expectations on your behalf. You come to believe them yourself.
~ Jay Parini