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Quotes About Self

A fool is wise in his eyes.
~ King Solomon
It is wisest to be impartial. If you have health, but are attached to it, you will always be afraid of losing it. And if you fear that loss, but become ill, you will suffer. Why not remain forever joyful in the Self?
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
~ Epictetus
I never wished that I was a superstar. Hell, I never even wished that I was an actress.
~ Diane Lane
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
~ James Thurber
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
~ Jean Cocteau
Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
~ Hippocrates
Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.
~ Prem Rawat
Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.
~ Hugh Jackman
Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.
~ Sandra Cisneros
There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.
~ Hermann Hesse
I guess maybe there is two sides of me - the nice guy and then the beast within.
~ Keith Thurman
Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
I'm not searching for the meaning of life, but I'm looking for a meaning within my life.
~ David Lowery
You create history within yourself. You create history within your own family. You create your own legacy. Because I create history without even trying to and that's when the best parts of history are created.
~ Bianca Belair
I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within.
~ Christy Turlington
Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.
~ Phyllis Bottome
Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.
~ Andrew Weil
We can never flee the misery that is within us.
~ Arthur Golden
It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you.
~ Russell Brand
In the life of our organism, we are continually dealing with a development of force followed by a state of equilibrium. Of course, the human being has no conscious knowledge of what is really going on within him, but what takes place is so infinitely wise that the cleverness of the human ego is nothing by comparison.
~ Rudolf Steiner
Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.
~ Thomas Hardy
He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.
~ John Milton
If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?
~ Dogen