Quotes About Self

Love does not happen without loss of vital self. The lover is the loser. Or so he reckons. But his reckoning involves a

Comparison makes you less interesting to yourself doesn't it. Your magic contracts your body putting forth no frill under another's gaze.

When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.

You know who I am. You know my naked power.

Seguir siendo humano es romper un impedimento. Quiérelo si eres capaz. Quiérelo si te atreves.

I wonder if there might not be another idea of human order than repression, another notion of human virtue than self-control, another kind of human self than one based on dissociation of inside and outside. Or indeed, another human essence than self.

I like to think that, the more I stand out of the way, the more Sappho shows through. This is an amiable fantasy (transparency of self) within which most translators labor. If light appears, 'not ruining the eyes (as Sappho says) but strengthening, nourishing and watering,' - Aelius Aristides Orations we undo a bit of cloth.

not to believe, that is, in the story of his own life. Bold move.

Depression is one of the unknown modes of being. There are no words for a world without a self, seen with impersonal clarity. All language can register is the slow return to oblivion we call health when imagination automatically recolors the landscape and habit blurs perception and language takes up its routine flourishes.

Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for a space, a garden where we can till, sow, reap, and rest, and by doing so come to a deeper sense of self and our place in the universe. Silence is not an absence but a presence.

His hair needed a comb, and there was a gleam of something under his nose, but he was so very much himself.

Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for a space, a garden where we can till, sow, reap, and rest, and by doing so come to a deeper sense of self and our place in the universe. Silence is not an absence but a presence. Not an emptiness but repletion A filling up.

be you and not someone else

My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckle; the rest is subject to change without notice.

First of all, people are always pretending to be what they are," said his father. "That's basically a philosophical question. Part of being something is pretending to be it.

perhaps great sins start as simple weakness, and the consistent placing of self before others.

Love is brave and generous and above all it springs from honor. In order to love someone else, you must first be true to yourself. Love is not two people wanting or needing what the other can give. --Hester Latterly

A journey through all the nooks and crannies of the human experience, spiritual inquiry is the effort to connect with a larger reality, to master the self and its endless puzzles and boundaries. It's the never-ending asking, What is this? What's the point?

And we are magic talking to itself, noisy and alone. I am queen of all my sins forgotten. Am I still lost? Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself

Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself, Counting this row and that row of moccasins Waiting on the silent shelf.

And if I tried to give you something else, something outside myself, you would not know that the worst of anyone can be, finally, an accident of hope

The real me lives in words, not in what words mean.

How you choose to lose yourself matters. Trust me, it's all in the 'how'. It matters a lot.

The little girl skipped by under the wrinkled oak leaves and held fast to a replica of herself.