Quotes About Self

You are your own nearest environment, so begin with yourself.

First you recognize stillness, then you are it. You feel yourself as autonomous, that is, not identified with what is all around you. And now true relation is possible.

You are the guest of joy, you cannot impose yourself.

Dans la vie on ne fait pas ce que l'on veut mais on est responsable de ce que l'on est.

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.

Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living.

I was the victim of another American myth, namely that things can actually change for the better, that if you try hard enough you can transform the lead of your crummy self into some golden ideal.

What we know through a connection with the Self is divine wisdom.

A person (or ego) with a connection to the Self has a sense that what she is doing with her life is meaningful. This can only be known subjectively, it is soul knowledge.

Es más, existen muchas "diosas" en un sola mujer. Cuanto más complicada es ésta, más probable es que haya muchas "diosas" activas en ella. Y lo que es satisfactorio para una parte de sí misma puede ser irrelevante para otra parte.

You wanted to believe that getting older, growing up, would change everything, transform you into the amazing person you were meant to be. But what if it didn't? What if you had to stay you forever?

She didn't look like Louise. She didn't look much like anybody except herself.

It was so hard to decide where loyalties should lie: with oneself or with one's community?

n'ai obéi qu'à une exigence, d'ailleurs non formulée, celle de donner à entendre ma voix, et cela, si je puis dire, à mes propres oreilles : ma voix, comme si je craignais, après tant d'années consacrées à écouter les voix des autres, de perdre la mienne

L'amour véritable vient de nous seuls et ne requiert aucun retour.

Like the bath, my old clothes could easily bring back poignant, painful memories. But I see in the clothing a symbol of continuing life. And proof that I still want to be myself. If I must drool, I may as well drool on cashmere.

This skin cripples me. It always has. — Kai Cheng Thom to -----, 2013 (age 22)

The main thing is you and I should exist, and that we should be you and I. Apart from that let everything go as it likes. The best order of things to my way thinking, is the one I was meant to be part of, and to hell with the most perfect of worlds if I am not in it. I would rather exist, even as an impudent argufier, than not exist at all.

Urban Dictionary states: An eGolem is a physical creature born or animated from the sum experience of your social persona.

como «plática motivacional con crisis de identidad»

Nature does not deceive us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

It is not self defining but by You