Quotes About Self

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.

I've swum for my country, I've swum for my coaches and my schools and my teams. I decided this time I was going to swim for myself.

More endearingly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self control and pride.

Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers.

A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content.

we are never more (and sometimes less) than the co-authors of our own narratives.

Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

Intuition,, not intellect, is the 'open sesame' of yourself.

If you can't do respect for yours, you can't do for others.

The question that sometime's drive's me hazy, am i or the other's crazy?

Be yourself for a while, even it's hurt.

Zettle notes, we misuse many nouns in psychology instead of verbs and thereby create semifictional entities that Kevin Everett FitzMaurice (1997) calls "thought things." Thus we say, "My feelings upset me when panic overwhelms me when I am in closed spaces" instead of, "I upset myself by panicking when I am in closed spaces.

I've often felt that my library explained who I was, gave me a shifting self that transformed itself constantly throughout the years.

Partly, what we are may be what we believe we once were and lost.

La mia biblioteca è una sorta di autobiografia. Nel proliferare degli scaffali vi è un libro per ogni istante della mia vita, per ogni amicizia, per ogni delusione, per ogni cambiamento. Segnano i miei anni come le pietre bianche che indicano la strada di un pellegrino.

I'd rather be myself, he said. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.

The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward manifesation of the physical world, including fluctuations which end up as thoughts and actions

Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.

The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.

But if one doesn't really exist, one wonders why... she hesitated. Why one makes such a fuss about things, Anthony suggested. All that howling and hurrahing and gnashing of teeth. About the adventures of a self that isn't really a self—just the result of a lot of accidents. And of course, he went on, once you start wondering, you see at once that there is no reason for making such a fuss. And then you don't make a fuss—that is, if you're sensible. Like me, he added, smiling.

And as I looked, it became very clear that this five-and-ten-cent ship was in some way connected with human pretensions. This suffocating interior of a dime-store ship was my own personal self; these gimcrack mobiles of tin and plastic were my personal contributions to the universe.

Start by being fully aware of what you think you are. It'll help you to become aware of what you are in fact.