Quotes About Self

This isn't about him. It's about you. You shouldn't do anything you're not ready for.

It was so easy to disown what you couldn't recognize, to keep yourself apart from things that were foreign and unsettling. The only person you can be sure to control, always, is yourself. Which is a lot to be sure of, but at the same time, not enough.

There's something just obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.

Let the statues crumble. You have always been the place.

Those who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of self.

If I looked in the mirror someday and saw no dark circles under my eyes, I would probably look better. I just wouldn't look like me.

If you want things to be different, you have to start by changing yourself.

That's what existence means: draining one's own self dry without the sense of thirst.

your judgement judges you and defines you

One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.

The power of love grows from inside, whereas the power of the sword is imposed from the outside. Like a tree grows from a seed, the power of love grows from the self; seek your power within and be your own light.

Ego means I am this body mind... Clarity realise I am That Whereas in real Just awareness is... Be Happy and keep smiling...

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

As long as I could keep improving my mind, I figured, I was doing okay.

Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love--or what good is it?

At moments I dislike having a face, a nose, lips, because he has them.

The challenge of modern freedom, or the combination of isolation and freedom which confronts you, is to make yourself up. The danger is that you may emerge from the process as a not-entirely-human creature. (Referenced in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young)

What art thou?' Nothing. That's the answer. Nothing. In the heart of hearts- Nothing! So of course you can't stand that and want to be Something, and you try. But instead of being this Something, the man puts it over on everybody instead.

Everybody pays the heart lip service, of course, but everybody is more familiar with the absence of love than with its presence and gets so used to the feeling of emptiness that it becomes normal. You don't miss the foundation of feeling until you begin to look for your self and can't find a support in the affects for a self.

I am not an ornithologist—I am a bird.

Everybody I ever knew wanted to show in some way how he held the world together. This only comes from feeling the strain of holding yourself together, and it gets exaggerated into the whole world from the hard labor you put into it.

He liked to wear good clothes, but once he had put it on each article appeared to go its own way.

If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.

Now: the first requirement of stability in a human being was that the said human being should really desire to exist. This is what Spinoza says.