Quotes About Self

For the moment that interfering neurotic who, in waking hours, tries to run the show, was blessedly out of the way.

The old self seemed unprecedentedly heavier than the surrounding atmosphere.

In spite of his misery he absolutely refused to take the half gramme raspberry sundae which she pressed upon him, I'd rather be myself he said. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

Naša nas taština tjera da preuveli?avamo ljudski život.

parrot talking is the person himself making an utterance. The more you reflect on this, the stranger it is

The mystical experience is doubly valuable; it is valuable because it gives the experiencer a better understanding of himself and the world and because it may help him to lead a less self-centered and more creative life.

Turning to God without turning from self' - the formula is absurdly simple; and yet, simple as it is, it explains all the follies and iniquities committed in the name of religion.

Ama ba?ka bir ?ekilde mutlu olmak istemez miydin, Lenina? Ba?kalar? gibi de?il, kendi istedi?in gibi.

Cheltuim ast?zi cu mult mai mult pentru b?utur? ÅŸi fumat decât cheltuim pentru edu- caÅ£ie. Åži nu e de mirare. Aproape în fiecare dintre noi, aproape tot timpul, exist? pornirea de a fugi de sine ÅŸi de ceea ce ne înconjoar?.

Is it any happiness, or any comfort, to consider that we are our own?

Cine naiba se crede el ?". Întrebarea nu i se adresa lui Cézanne în particular, ci speciei umane în general. Cine se credeau oamenii ?

The wound is mortal and is mine.

I am I, and I wish I weren't.

But a fight is what they most enjoy; for it is while they are fighting that their blood chemistry makes them feel most intensely themselves. 'Feeling good,' they naturally assume that they are good. Adrenalin addiction is rationalized as Righteous Indignation and finally, like the prophet Jonah, they are convinced, unshakably, that they do well to be angry.

I am I, and I wish I wasn't

Le style c'est I'homme. No doubt. But the converse is also partly true. L'homme c'est le style. Because we have a gift for writing in a certain way, we find ourselves, in some sort, becoming our way of writing. We mould ourselves in the likeness of our particular brand of eloquence.

modo de hacerlo por sí mismo. Ése es el sentido, supongo, del ritual tibetano: alguien que esté ahí sentado todo el tiempo y diciéndonos qué es qué.

Lo que los dos hombres tenían en común era el conocimiento de que eran individuos.

Belki de her birimiz, küçücük bir dozu bile bilincimizde köklü deÄŸiÅŸikliklere yol açt??? bilinen maddeleri vücudumuzda üretme yetisine sahibiz.

One of the first things that Homo Sapiens did with his newly developed rationality and self-consciousness was to set them to work finding out ways to by-pass analytical thinking and to transcend or, in extreme cases, temporarily obliterate, the isolating awareness of the self.

But I do," he insisted. "It makes me feel as though . . ." he hesitated, searching for words with which to express himself, "as though I were more me, if you see what I mean. More on my own, not so completely a part of something else. Not just a cell in the social body. Doesn't it make you feel like that, Lenina?" But

I am, and wish I wasn't.

This suffocating interior of a dime-store shop was my own personal self; these gimcrack mobiles of tin and plastic were my personal contributions to the universe....What it had allowed me to perceive inside was not the Dharma-Body, in images, but my own mind; not Suchness, but a set of symbols - in other words, a homemade substitute for Suchness.

The love and war in the previous injunctions are of the nature of sport, where one respects, and learns from the opponent, but never interferes with him, outside the actual game. To seek to dominate or influence another is to seek to deform or destroy him; and he is a necessary part of one's own Universe, that is, of one's self.