Quotes About Self

Human beings are hardwired to act in alignment with our self-identity

Every second you spend thinking about someone else's dreams, you take time away from your own.

One of the most essential truths to recognize is the fact that the only limits on what we can achieve in life are those we create and place on ourselves. Circumstances are the creation of people and not the other way around.

Si no te ríes de ti mismo, ¿de quién te vas a reír?

La mente es un magnífico criado pero un amo terrible.

Your influence in the world mirrors the glory, nobility, vitality and luminosity you've accessed in yourself.

Chinese define image in these terms: there are three mirrors that form a person's reflection; the first is how you see yourself, the second is how others see you and the third mirror reflects the truth.

Vuestra influencia en el mundo es reflejo de la gloria, la nobleza, la vitalidad y la luminosidad a las que hayáis accedido dentro de vosotros mismos.

lo que está detrás y lo que está delante de ti no es nada comparado con lo que está dentro de ti.

Ten en cuenta que un mal día para el ego es un día genial para el alma.

You're already everything you have always wanted to become

A bad day for the ego is a great day for the soul

Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.

But if you're just a stranger to everybody on earth, then that's what you are and there's no end to it. You don't know the words to say.

To Cassidy, the panopticon wasn't a metaphor. It was the greatest failing on everything she was, a prison she had built for herself out of an inability to appear anything less than perfect. And so she ghosted on, in relentless pursuit of escape, not from society, but from herself. She would always be confined by what everyone expected of her because she was too afraid and too unwilling to correct our imperfect imaginings.

It was about being able to dance like Cassidy did, as though no one was watching, as though the moment was infinite enough without needing to document its existence.

Everyone wants a revelation, but no one wants to be revealed.

Look out for number one and try not to step in number two.

You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, that the book is going to be read, that somebody is going to care. You can't ever be sure about that, but you need the sense that it's important, that it's not typing; it's writing.

The identification of any object in the first-person case is ruled out by the enterprise of scientific explanation. So science cannot tell me who I am, let alone where, when, or how.

One thing is immediately apparent, and this is that many statements made in the first-person case are epistemologically privileged.

All sentimentality is like this: it redirects emotion from the object to the subject, so as to create a fantasy of emotion without the real cost of feeling it.

But that is the way it is with all oracles, Jack. When that which is foreseen comes to pass, the inquirer is no longer the same person he was when he posed the question. It is impossible to make a man understand what he will become with the passage of time; and it is only a future self to whom a prophecy is truly relevant.

Being a god is the quality of being able to be yourself to such an extent that your passions correspond with the forces of the universe, so that