Quotes About Self

The mind is where the ego rules. The soul resides in the heart.

Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair.

My happiness has to come from within myself or it is too fragile a thing to be of any use to me and too much of a burden to benefit any of my loved ones.

But there were certain moments in life that forever defined one as a person - in one's own estimation, anyway. And one's own self esteem, when all was said and done, was of far more importance than the fickle esteem of one's peers.

Everyone should know what it is like to be called by name. By the name of the unique person one is at heart.

Sou todas as pessoas que já fui - esclareceu - e todas as experiências que vivi. Não tenho de fazer opções. Não tenho de renegar uma identidade para poder reclamar outra. Sou quem sou. In Uma noite de amor

One should love from a position of wholeness. One should have a firm and rich sense of self no matter what. For there is always pain—it cannot be avoided in this life, more's the pity. But pain should not destroy the person who feels it.

As he had once said to someone in England, though he did not care to remember whom, he had liked the sight of the sea because it represented his escape from England. And he had escaped. But she had said that perhaps it was from himself he wished to escape and that it could not be done. For wherever he went, he must inevitably take himself along too.

But if you do get to know me, please let me know what you discover. I have no idea who I am.

yourself in doubt or in danger—

My dear Watson, said he, I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers. When I say, therefore, that Mycroft has better powers of observation than I, you may take it that I am speaking the exact and literal truth.

Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplor in arca.

We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the following spring. Yet I never imagined such a thing could occur within our very selves.

No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.

It's not what you wear or how you look, it's what you feel like that makes you what you are

My love was alive, not because I was loved, but because I myself loved!

The eight sin, deadlier than all- self transcendence through misplaced devotion-is not included in the list.

Tardé muchos años en descubrir que el inquieto viajero solo tenía una meta: huir de sí mismo

Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence.

You want to live? You better figure out your life.

The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can't get out of within.

Keller: You've got a business here, what the hell is this? Chris: The business! The business doesn't inspire me. Keller: Must you be inspired? Chris: Yes. I like it an hour a day. If I have to grub for money all day long at least at evening I want it beautiful. I want a family, I want some kids, I want to build something I can give myself to. Annie is in the middle of that.

HALE, to Parris, trying to contain himself: Is every defense an attack upon the court? Can no one—?

Authenticity reduces stress and produces faith in oneself and in the potential to grow and learn.