Quotes About Self

Not all creatures can become as great as they think.

The most dangerous enemy is the one within.

One cannot subordinate himself simultaneously to God and to his own idolized self. Thus the Sages say: Whoever becomes angry, [even if he is a prophet] the Devine Presence leaves him. (Pesachim 66b)

However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.

My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen. — Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)

One could not spend one's life in the imaginings of another life.

Görünmek istediÄŸin gibi ol.

Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering. Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.

She suggests, too, that our capacity for intimate relationships can depend on having this deep core of private awareness; and that acknowledging our unknown and unseen selves, and offering these up only when and if we choose, is essential to our ability to engage in close relationships. Valuing interior experience is vital to developing a sense of self, and how we reveal ourselves to the outside world has everything to do with how we stay out of view when we need to.

Not everything which happens to us occurs with reference to something about us.

We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as ideal as we are corrupt.

Expecting to find the answer, we find only the duplicate of our own problem.

Our love of home is in turn an acknowledgement of the degree to which our identity is not self.

F?r? dragoste, ne pierdem capacitatea de a avea o identitate real?; în dragoste exist? o constant? confirmare a sinelui

A momentus but until then overlooked fact was making its first appearance: that I had inadvertently brought myself with me to the island.

There is a lack of tact in people who their conversation look not to please others, but to elucidate, egotistically, points that they are interested in.' Conversation requires an abdication of oneself in the name of pleasing companions: 'When we speak, it is no longer we who speak...we are fashioning ourselves then in the likeness of other people, and not of a self that differs from them.

We cannot be taught wisdom, we have to discover it for ourselves by a journey which no one can undertake

When I consider … the small space I occupy and which I see swallowed up in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I know nothing and which know nothing of me ['l'infinie immensité des espaces que j'ignore et qui m'ignorent'], I take fright and am amazed to see myself here rather than there: there is no reason for me to be here rather than there, now rather than then. Who put me here? Pascal, Pensées

O notorie inabilitate de a-È™i exprima emoÈ›iile îl face pe om singurul animal capabil de sinucidere.

a reason to start over new, the reason is you.

You don't put your life into your books. You find it there.

The difference between Old Honolulu and New, she would come to decide, was the difference between a beautiful woman who was simply being herself and a beautiful woman calling attention to herself: a little vain perhaps, but you couldn't say she wasn't attractive.

Love does not require you to make believe you are something you are not.

Success is less about getting good, and more about letting good.