Quotes About Self

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

I'm a world champion, I've beaten everyone I've been in with and I want to test myself.

If I make history, I don't need to blab about it. My first concern is not 'making history,' it's myself and becoming world champion. That's all I care about.

Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead.

I don't play tennis to prove a point to anyone. I play for my country and myself. It's not changing what people say or think. It's about what I can do. If I feel I have the ability to achieve something and haven't used my potential to that end, I'll keep trying till I succeed.

I stand before you as a writer without any ground of being out of which to write: really blown about from country to country, culture to culture till I feel - till I am - nothing. As it happens, I like it that way.

You're just constantly outputting, and giving all you know so you don't have time to look inside of yourself and to really reflect. The four years at drama school really gave me that time and space.

One of the things you hear about when studying the nature of fanaticism is that a lot of the time, people don't start as fanatics. They shift and evolve into that state. That's a process, a systematic process of losing your identity and sense of self.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

If you are the person who gets the lion's share of attention in good times, guess what: you get the lion's share of attention in bad times.

I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.

I am Tina Yothers and I'll never be anyone different.

I am constantly amazed by Tina Fey. And I am Tina Fey.

I get really tired of getting painted up all the time. Basically, I'm a bum.

The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self.

I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.

We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.

I don't want my title to define my character. I don't think, as a president, I will change.

The 'Burials' title really speaks to all the different levels that are on the record. It speaks to silence and panic and anxiety and loss of self and isolation and those different levels of hiding.

It's a personal challenge for me, to give the best of myself, to win titles, to score goals for my team, and to help when needed.