Quotes About Self

I have been invaded by my own secrets and I must try to find out how to live with them.

Have men always been terrified of their true nature? Is all history a record of their denials of themselves?

Everything has always been here one way or another. So it must know what it's doing. And since I am part of this everything, a good part of me must be all right just the way it is, and the way it's doing it.

Paranoia, I tell myself, is a man with the facts.

I know I feel satisfied with myself, & that is one step, & a great one, to getting comfortable if not happy again.

There are no buts, my son. True there are degrees of honor — but one man can have only one code. Do what you like. It's your choice. Some things a man must decide for himself. Sometimes you have to adapt to circumstances. But for the love of God guard yourself and your conscience — no one else will — and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet!

Afterwards, over drinks, one of the barbarians asked me what I dreamt of. I, of course, was taken aback. They say barbarians don't dream. But I told him... "I dream of tangible nothing," I said. "So you mean nothing as something, then?" the barbarian replied over the rim of his gin-and-tonic. "I mean unity, dissolving into non-self," I said, just to be confusing.

When you choose to have limits, you limit yourself for growth, knowledge and experience." – James D. Wilson

Be you go out and do you while showing the world the present.

Find your ingredients in your life and bake your own cakes

We are our thoughts and memories and personalities.

Stephen, Stephen, Stephen. My name is Stephen.

The mother's unavailability to supply the emotional fuel dampened or thwarted the child's desire to individuate and become his real self,

Personal meaning must be created, not accepted, and the process of creating it requires testing and experimentation. A false self will neither test nor experiment; it is a defense against experimenting.

V življenju se nam neštetokrat zgodijo posebna naklju?ja oziroma so?asnosti - tista hipna sre?anja in dogodki, ki v sebi nosijo potencial, da nam popolnoma spremenijo življenje. Mnogo takih trenutkov zgrešimo, ker se morda preprosto prestrašimo tega, kar bi odkrili o sebi, ?e bi se prepustili tej izkušnji.

None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations. A life of pleasure is, therefore, the most unpleasing life.

I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche...

Fear of our own depths is the enemy.

That of which we are not aware, owns us.

Dogen tells us to "cease practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words and following after speech, and learn the backward step that turns your light inwardly to illuminate yourself.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

It's also hard to trust yourself when you know you're that person that might run out the door.

Age is a peculiar kind of thief. It slips up on you and steps inside your skin and is so quiet and methodical in its work that you never realize it has stolen your youth until you look into the mirror one morning and see a man you don't recognize.

If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger takes up residence inside our skin.