Quotes About Self

They believed the core of Christ's teachings was to never stop looking for God in the world—and oneself.

The warmth and peace she had experienced before had nothing to do with gifts or blessings. It was this human touch. The warmth of family, the peace of self and certainty. That was blessing enough for anyone.

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

By the early twentieth century, autobiography was fast establishing itself as a major form of imaginative writing

be cool. God created you that way

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.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.

We are so costumed to disguise ourselves to others that, in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.

Whe can't escape who we are

III. We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves. —FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great,' he said. 'To escape the cognitive mode of experience, to transcend the accident to one's moment of being. There are other advantages, more difficult to speak of, things which ancient sources only hint at and which I myself only understood after the fact.

I am a Californian by birth and also, I have recently discovered, by nature. The last is something I admit only now, after the fact.

Could it be because it reminds us that we are alive, of our mortality, of our individual souls – which, after all, we are too afraid to surrender but yet make us feel more miserable than any other thing? But isn't it also pain that often makes us most aware of self? Our own selves make us most unhappy, and that's why we're so anxious to lose them, don't you think?

Todos los grandes cuadros son en realidad autorretratos.

every great painting is really a self-portrait

Our own selves make us most unhappy, and that's why we're so anxious to lose them, don't you think? Remember

It's often pain tha makes us more aware of self

It is my experience, stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you. What you want, to live and be happy in the world, is a women who has her own life and let's you have yours.

Why does that obstinate little voice in our heads torment us so?' he said, looking round the table. 'Could it be because it reminds us that we are alive, of our mortality, of our individual souls - which, after all, we are too afraid to surrender but yet make us feel more miserable than any other thing? But isn't it also pain that often makes us most aware of self?

If we're not at peace, we are in an ego state.

A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is THE man.

On nous définit encore, même les gens les plus évolués, en fonctions de nos relations avec les hommes.

No one does anything to me, I do it to myself.

I sense myself, I think of myself; and as I do this I dissolve, go away, am left with nothing, nothing, nothing - unless I am the wind that blows through the immense spaces that lie between electron and electron, proton and its attendants, spaces that cannot be filled with 'nothing', since nothing is 'nothing'... (84)