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Quotes About Self

We seldom see the world as it is; but we often see the world as we are.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
You can search for the meaning of life, as much as you can. You will never find it, because you're the one who is meant to define it.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
You laugh, and the world laughs with you. You cry, and you cry alone. You sing, and the mountains would echo you. You sigh, and it's lost in air. You rejoice, and the world will seek you. You grieve, and the world will walk away. You can be in sync with the world, its people and nature around you. You are the origin, and you are the center of your happiness and well being. So be thankful and enjoy life, each and every day as it comes to you. Cheer up, my friend!
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we think we are is at the core of our being. Are you a decent girl with the potential to someday become an evil monster, or are you an evil monster that thinks it's a decent girl?" "Wouldn't I know which one I was?" "Good God, no. The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.
~ Derek Landy
I was changing my head. It feels good to have the old one back on. And now I have a spare, which is nice.
~ Derek Landy
There's an I in menagerie. - Black Annis
~ Derek Landy
There are three names for everyone. The name you're born with, the name you're given and the name you take.
~ Derek Landy
I'm not a thing. I'm not an it. I'm a person. I am a her. - Stephanie (the reflection)
~ Derek Landy
No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it.
~ John Galt
All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.
~ Bruce Lee
Be that self which one truly is.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
More the knowledge lesser the Ego, lesser the knowledge, more the Ego.
~ Albert Einstein
Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
~ William Shakespeare
You can never represent yourself totally .... to seek self -knowledge is to embark on a journey which ... will always be incomplete, cannot be charted on a map, will never halt, cannot be described.
~ Douglas Hofstadter
All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.
~ Bruce Lee
Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.
~ John Calvin
No negative, all positive, affirmative. I am, God is, everything is in me. I will manifest health, purity, knowledge, whatever I want.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
~ Teresa of Avila
As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.
~ Ramakrishna
Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one's own awareness is direct knowledge.
~ Ramana Maharshi
While sincerity is to carry the weight of knowledge in the self, it is also to be the lightness of being clean.
~ John de Ruiter
I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.
~ Tracy Morgan
In any influence, will, a self, the ego, the I AM is the greater force to be dealt with, but as numbers do influence, a knowledge of same certainly gives an individual a foresight into relationships.
~ Edgar Cayce