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Quotes About Self

Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.
~ Sivananda
I don't have expectations with people, but I have very high standards for myself. The only time I get disappointed in life is when I disappoint myself.
~ Chronixx
It's been a long time since I've been me.
~ Fernando Pessoa
We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.
~ Carl Jung
Love is the time and space where "I" give myself the right to be extraordinary.
~ Julia Kristeva
I'm lost. And it's my own fault. It's about time I figured out that I can't ask people to keep me found.
~ Anne Sexton
I wasn't the leader of any gang. I was for Billy all the time.
~ Billy the Kid
Hallucinations are an inner experience in which most of the time you forget you're there.
~ Gaspar Noe
Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
~ Samuel Beckett
I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.
~ Kim Basinger
Memory as an inversion of historical time is the essence of interiority.
~ Emmanuel Levinas
To see a doll of yourself is very weird and very neat at the same time.
~ Thuy Trang
The best gift you can give yourself is the gift of possibility.
~ Paul Newman
What you invest your time in defines who you are.
~ Todd Duncan
Just because a person spends her time making a piece of something does not mean that she becomes that - a piece of something.
~ Leslie T. Chang
I know I am deathless. No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. I laugh at what you call dissolution, and I know the amplitude of time.
~ Walt Whitman
Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?
~ Clarice Lispector
Each and every one of us holds the amazing power to modify our life at any time we decide to do so.
~ J. Michael Bailey
You are who you choose to be.
~ Ted Hughes
I have the impression that every time I'm heartbroken, I leave a bit of myself behind. I am the believer. I go back and do the same mistakes over and over again and sign them proudly.
~ Xavier Dolan
Light is time thinking about itself.
~ Octavio Paz
The light is within. It is already there. Take your time to see it.
~ Swami Satchidananda
Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow and the day after that.
~ Chris Hadfield
None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.
~ Anne Rice