Quotes About Self

How could a man know the truth of his own soul?

represents their "death" to the world as they

Happiness is egotistical.

A meno che non muoia, sarò sempre ciò che sono.

Happy! who can answer for that? Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to oneself…

As for herself, she returned to her seat with a smile of savage scorn upon her lips, and she blasphemously repeated the fearful name of that God by whom she had just sworn, without ever having learned to know Him. My God! said she. Fanatical fool! -My God is myself; and whoever will assist in my revenge!

The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.

Beauty for Beauty's sake and only later for the sake of others, newborn for a day.

The world has a body and I have none

Here we would notice that what we would call Japanese aesthetics (in contrast to Western aesthetics) is more concerned with process than with product, with the actual construction of a self than with self-expression. The

The most aggressive and therefore the most dangerous words in the languages of the world are to be found in the assertion I AM.

The asanas are useful maps to explore yourself, but they are not the territory.

It was later, after they'd dozed and he'd pulled her into the shower upon waking, that Cooper started on a plan. She laughed at his timing. "I do my best thinking in the shower," he told her, then poured bath soap in his hand and started rubbing her back. "I'm pretty sure I'll think even better if I have something more fun to be washing than my own self." He slipped his hands around to the front, making her squeal, then maybe moan a bit.

Now, regardless of how she looked on the outside, inside she still felt fifty. Why did no one understand that?

Undoubtedly, a thing forever blooming is the soul, no matter how barren the soil. And only through that frightening abyss of the unknown self does the mind root out the light upon which it nourishes.

In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.

The problem with unfilled dreams is that they give us tunnel vision. We focus on ourselves, and that can be depressing and discouraging place to look.

Why, she wondered, do we always reserve our worst hatred for our own?

And you who seek to know me, know that the seeking and yearning will avail you not, unless you know the Mystery: For if that which you seek, you find not within yourself, you will never find it without.

New Age glorifies the self; Christianity glorifies God.

nuestra mision es estar en paz con nosotros mismos.

Father Michaels' sermon was mercifully short. He had a reputation for three-minute homilies, tightly written, provocative and insightful. His words centered on the true meaning of Christianity. That is was all about love. Love of God, love of self, love of family, love of community. Love was a gift.

The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create from nothing.

Who am I? Or possibly, who AM I? Make it who I WAS, because once I was somebody.