Quotes About Self

Human folly is that people are always trying to extract joy from the outside. You may use the outside as a stimulus or trigger, but the real thing always comes from within.

To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude towards Afrika becomes more positive, your understanding of and attitude towards yourself will also becomes more positive...

How is it possible to write one's autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?

And you'll see black women wearing these green and pink and purple and red and platinum-blonde wigs. They're all more ridiculous than a slapstick comedy. It makes you wonder if the Negro has completely lost his sense of identity, lost touch with himself.

Deformación de un texto de Sartre en Huis clos, la frase original decía: El infierno es el Otro.

Don't believe everything you think.

My body betrays me. It ages, I don't

I am what I am. We are what we are.

What is a person if not the sum of her memories?" —Lela Dax

Whoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.

This you must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole, and what is my nature, and how this is related to that, and what kind of a part it is of what kind of a whole; and that there is no one who hinders you from always doing and saying the things that conform to the nature of which you are a part.

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all – that is myself.

Things of themselves cannot touch the soul at all. They have no entry to the soul, and cannot turn or move it. The soul alone turns and moves itself, making all externals presented to it cohere with the judgements it thinks worthy of itself.

To do harm is to do yourself harm. To do an injustice is to do yourself an injustice—it degrades you.

He that sinneth, sinneth unto himself. He that is unjust, hurts himself, in that he makes himself worse than he was before. Not he only that committeth, but he also that omitteth something, is oftentimes unjust.

Remember, nothing belongs to you but your flesh and blood—and nothing else is under your control.

If you remove your judgement of anything that seems painful, you yourself stand quite immune to pain. 'What self?' Reason. 'But I am not just reason.' Granted. So let reason cause itself no pain, and if some other part of you is in trouble, it can form its own judgement for itself.

Don't cling to possessions and other external things; cling only to the divine spark within you.

Reverence that which is best in the universe; and this is that which makes use of all things and directs all things. And in like manner also reverence that which is best in thyself; and this is of the same kind as that. For in thyself also, that which makes use of everything else, is this, and thy life is directed by this.

No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothing can happen to you that is not required by Nature.

Reverence the sovereign power over things in the Universe; this is what uses all and marshals all. In like manner, too, reverence the sovereign power in yourself; and this is of one kind with that. For in you also this is what uses the rest, and your manner of living is governed by this.

Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety, in the calm of self surrender.

IV. He that sinneth, sinneth unto himself. He that is unjust, hurts himself, in that he makes himself worse than he was before. Not he only that committeth, but he also that omitteth something, is oftentimes unjust.

Let the god that is within you be the champion of the being you are.