Quotes About Self

The car has become a secular sanctuary for the individual, his shrine to the self, his mobile Walden Pond.

The best way to live in this real world is to free ourselves of demons and tribal gods.

True character arises from a deeper well than religion. It is the internalization of moral principles of a society, augmented by those tenets personally chosen by the individual, strong enough to endure through trials of solitude and adversity. The principles are fitted together into what we call integrity, literally the integrated self, wherein personal decisions feel good and true. Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others.

She was ghastly and quite mad, but when I grew up I figured her worst punishment was to be herself and I didn't have to do anything more.

There are, in fact, no more important communications between one human being and another than those expressed emotionally, and no information more vital for constructing and reconstructing working models of the self and other than information about how each feels towards the other...it is the emotional communication between a patient and his therapist that play the crucial part. John Bowlby

The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.

Here is the situation of Man: the more power he claims for himself, the less power he has.

Who understands fear and trembling? Those who know God. Who doesn't understand fear and trembling? Those who have made themselves God.

Do you know why God loves the world? Because the world is not apart from God and it would be impossible for God to not love himself.

Something else apart from this heady fusion draws us in to Nile Shadows, though, and that's a certain compulsive quality that, as in all great novels, appears to be beyond the author's control. On the one hand Whittemore is the master story teller, weaving his tale of good and evil with its great cast of characters over its great span of time, while on the other he is also telling a much simpler story, a story about himself, one feels, and telling it again and again.

People cut off love for all kinds of reasons but generally it has to do with them, not with somebody else.

All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.

We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies?

All men think all men mortal but themselves.

I also know there are timeless waters, endless seas, and lots of people in this world whose names don't matter to anyone but themselves. I look up at the sky and I see you there.

No one will love you more than you love your pain.

Are you to pay for all you have with all you are?

the extent we function and grow within the context of our own souls (a lifetime project) and abet the emergence of our own selves (by a willingness to face life's challenges and oneself), our spirituality and our tradition will spring naturally from our being.

To think blankness rouses certain terror and in the feeling the sudden sense of self responding down to the smallest unaided particle of its existence as answer to the blankness of sure nonexistence

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.

Courageless people defeat themselves; no one needs to defeat them.

Ego is such a bullet that fires all your relations.

Flirting means you are punishing and hurting yourself with your inner negative feelings and desires.

Jealousy is such a penalty that one sprays upon itself.