Quotes About Self

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be

Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.

It is said to be the age of the first person singular

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.

The man is only a half himself, the other half is his expression

Iako putujemo svetom da na?emo lepotu, moramo je nositi sa sobom ili je ne?emo na?i.

The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself

Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.

In proportion to the energy of his thought and will, he takes up the world into himself.

Glück ist ein Parfüm, das du nicht auf andere sprühen kannst, ohne selbst ein paar Tropfen abzubekommen.

Nature then becomes to him the measure of his attainments. So much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of his own mind does he not yet possess. And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

É impossível para um homem ser enganado por outra pessoa, a não ser por si mesmo". Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882).

Ne te quaesiveris extra.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

Nada es tan sagrado como la integridad de tu propia mente. Absuélvete a ti mismo, y tendrás la aprobación del mundo.

What is the right use of books? For inspiration. Books exist for your benefit, not you for theirs. Your most precious possession is your own soul. Better to never see a book than to have it pull you out of your orbit, so that your life now revolves around that book instead of around your own soul.

Y se expresaron con sus propias palabras, no con las palabras de los demás hombres

The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.

There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.

Inspiration is God making contact with itself.

What we're seeing out there is the projection of where we're at--the projection of the clingings of our minds.

It's very hard to grow because it's difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we've invested so heavily.