Quotes About Self

Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

What freedom! Unencumbered by the obstacles that the calculating self tackles daily, the central self can listen in innocence for who we are, listen for the whole of it, inquire into what is here. The

But the central self is open and aware because it need only be the unique voice that it is, an expression that transcends the personality that got it out of childhood alive.

The practice of the way things are is a reality check on the runaway imagination of the calculating self. It's like the world-weary policeman saying, "Just the facts, Ma'am, just the facts." Radiating possibility begins with things as they are and highlights open spaces, the pathways leading out from here.

I understand that trying and achieving are the same thing when you are your own master—and I am.

I am the framework for everything that happens in my life.

Watch out.' 'For what?' said Pollux. 'For when that uniform starts to wear you

Sternly, he nodded up and down when he listened instead of tipping his head to the side. Between these two, where was the real self? It came to her that both Sister Cecilia and then Agnes were as heavily manufactured of gesture and pose as was Father Damien. And within this, what sifting of identity was she? What mote? What nothing?

Clarice Lispector

The self will not be forced under, nor will the baby's needs gracefully retreat. The world tips away when we look into our children's faces.

Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of love.

C'est peut-être ça qu'on cherche à travers les vie, rien que cela, le plus grand chagrin possible pour devenir soi-même avant de mourir.

Maybe what makes life so terribly fatiguing is nothing other than the enormous effort we make for twenty years, forty years, and more, to be reasonable, to avoid being simply, profoundly ourselves, that is, vile, ghastly, absurd. It's the nightmare of having to represent the halt subhuman we were fobbed off with as a small-size universal ideal, a superman from morning to night.

Il n'y a pas de vanité intelligente.

There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.

There's no tyrant like a brain. Below

I thought of myself as missing.

Maybe what makes life so terribly fatiguing is nothing other than the enormous effort we make for twenty years, forty years, and more, to be reasonable, to avoid being simply, profoundly ourselves, that is, vile, ghastly, absurd.

There's never enough time, it's true, not even for thinking of yourself. Well

He is a guy without collective importance. He is just an individual.

You have to make yourself whole—no one else can.

one could never remind one's own daughter, or one's own self, too often of the power she had within.

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.

Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.