Quotes About Self

Creative life is always based on the values of the self, not on the values of the system.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it.

To create the life you deserve, you have to go after it. The universe that you inhabit flows from you - you don't flow from it.

No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.

Spiritual life doesn't make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.

Deep down we've never been who we think we once were, and we only remember what never happened.

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us. The worst part is, you can't even tell who is who.

I'm just living my life.

Individuality is very important for a full human life.

Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair.

Become aware of the silent witness that is observing the unfolding of all the external events of your life. This eternal presence is your true Self.

I think if we can be totally nonviolent within our own self, because we are part of the web of life, we will restore cosmic harmony.

The biggest battle in life is with yourself

My parents gave me stability and a belief in myself and in all the possibilities life has to offer. I was told the only limitations I would ever face were those I placed upon myself.

Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.

Our life is our own creation.

My reasons to live Were my reasons to die But at least they were mine Now I've freedom unbound Cut the laces of life

All my life I've been pleasin' everyone but me, waking up in someone else's dream.

... and in thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty.

Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes.

My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?

The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.

myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth