Quotes About Self

The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

The mind, which sometimes presumes to believe that there is no such thing as a miracle, is itself a miracle.

And it is through our love for others that we assist others to elevate themselves. Love, the extension of the self, is the very act of evolution. It is evolution in progress. The evolutionary force, present in all of life, manifests itself in mankind as human love. Among humanity love is the miraculous force that defies the natural law of entropy.

What transpires then in the course of many years of loving, of extending out limits for our cathexes, is a gradual but progressive enlargement of the self, an incorporation within of the world without, and a growth, a stretching and a thinning of out ego boundaries.

Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.

Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead. I want to think on my feet, live on the run.

O meu fim evidente era atar as duas pontas da vida, e restaurar na velhice a adolescência. Pois, senhor, não consegui recompor o que foi nem o que fui. Em tudo, se o rosto é igual, a fisionomia é diferente. Se só me faltassem os outros, vá; um homem consola-se mais ou menos das pessoas que perde; mas falto eu mesmo, e esta lacuna é tudo.

Se mi mancassero solo gli altri, pazienza; più o meno un uomo si consola delle persone che perde; ma il problema è che sono io stesso a mancare, e questa lacuna è tutto.

Crê em ti; mas nem sempre duvides dos outros.

ce ne sont pas mes gestes que j'escris, c'est moi, c'est mon essence.

mulher feita, refeita e perfeita.

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers...To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy...If I try self consciously to become a person, I will never be one. The most real people, those who are able to forget their selfish selves, who have true compassion, are usually the most distinct individuals

Probably the worst thing that has happened to our understanding of reality has been the acceptance of ourselves as consumers.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has obtained liberation from self.

She knew that the freedom was in herself, just as the prison had been.

When we seek our own pleasure as the ultimate good we place ourselves as the center of the universe. A fara or a man or a star has his place in the universe, but nothing created is the center.

The language of logical argument, of proofs,is the language of the limited self we know and can manipulate. But the language of parable and poetry, of storytelling,moves from the imprisoned language of the provable into the free language of what I must, for lack of another word, continue to call faith.

Happiness, he said, warming his hands around a fresh cup of coffee, is a choice. "You have to brew it in yourself. Even from a lump of food, we choose each grain to suit our need. Likewise, in the philosophical manner, we choose to be who we are.

I'll tell you what's brought it on – the behaviour of a man who has acted like a selfish bastard. You've thought of nobody but yourself, Louis, all the time … self, self, self.

What redemption there is in being loved: we are always our best selves when loved by another. Nothing can replace this.

Be who you seem to be.

The real me isn't the person I describe, no the real me is the me revealed by my actions.

We form our impression not globally, by placing ourselves in the broadest possible context, but locally, by comparing ourselves to people in the same boat as ourselves.

all of us, when it comes to constructing our sense of self, borrow bits and pieces, ideas and phrases, rituals and products from the world around us — over-the-counter-ethnicities that shape, in some small but meaningful way, our identities