Quotes About Self

There are, of course, the people who revolve around themselves--but I agree with you, she's not one of that kind. She's totally uninterested in herself. And yet she's got a strong character--there must be something. I thought at first it was her art--but it isn't. I've never met anyone so detached from life. That's dangerous.' 'Dangerous? What do you mean?' 'Well, you see--it must mean an obsession of some kind, and obsessions are always dangerous.

Life is really like a ship–the interior of a ship, that is. It has watertight compartments. You emerge from one, seal and bolt the doors, and find yourself in another. My life from the day we left Southampton to the day we returned to England was one such compartment. Ever since that I have felt the same about travel. You step from one life into another. You are yourself, but a different self. The new self is untrammelled by all the hundreds of spiders' webs and filaments

Where am I myself, the whole man, the true man? Where am I with God's mark upon my brow?

But I," she thought, "am not a whole person. I belong not to myself, but to something outside of me.

One must seek the truth within – not without.

Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realize it.

Fortunately at Miss Marple's age, there was always some ailment that could be discussed with slight exaggerations on the patient's part. Miss Marple hesitated between "her shoulder" and "her knee," but finally decided upon the knee. Miss Marple's knee, as she would have put it to herself, was always with her.

There is always a brave new world," said Poirot, "but only, you know, for very special people. The lucky ones. The ones who carry the making of that world within themselves." ? Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

You sort of underestimate the human being when you say that every least thing that is an abstract experience is spiritual. It isn't. It's just your real self. You can be capable of fantastic abstract experiences, right in this life.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

Everyone has an idea of what you need to do with your life. Only you have the facts of what you really need to do.

Lord save me from this abomination that I have to face in the mirror each and everyday

Don't be his story. Don't be anyone else's story. Be your own story. Protect yourself.

Self-expression through activity (not only inward but also, and especially, outward) is the natural perfection, the flowering of being.

I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.

None of it matters, these steps to look completely different, to be completely different. She's still her. She'll always be her.

Aren't we the ones who say, "My"? We exist from Birth till we Die. Aren't we the ego, 'I'? Let's find out "Who am I?"

The Attractions of the Senses and the Distractions of the Mind create Pollution that has no Solution-overcoming Ignorance with self-realization.

This is My House but this is not Me. What is Mine cannot be Me. Then how can my Body be Me? It is Mine, but it is not Me.

We are not the Bodies that we Wear. We are the ones that Wear the Body.

We are Prisoners of this Body. We are Prisoners of this Mind. Who are we? On Realization, the Truth we will find!

We are Prisoners of this Body.We are Prisoners of this Mind. Who are we? On Realization, the Truth we will find!

We think, "We are This", but in reality, "We are That"... Not the Body that we look like, but the Spirit, in fact!

You are not the EYE that can see. You are not the I that says,It is Me.Find out -Who is this I?