Quotes About Self

All of the significant battles are waged within the self.

You see, some people are always longing for the one place that feels right. Then there are those of us who carry our home with us wherever we go. I'm always home.

We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.

What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.

I think when a time comes, a change comes, and you have to recognize the change but also believe in yourself.

I wasn't in a position to defend myself. Sometimes it's a brutal profession. The first thing I thought of at the time was revenge. I have a more levelheaded take on the issue today.

When you are no more, only then for the first time will you be.

A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.

Over a long period of time, living as if you were someone else is no fun.

The liberty to live for self alone becomes in time a weary bondage.

There has never been anything but the Self. There is no world, there is no time, there is no place, there is no condition. There is nothing and there can be nothing else.

In advanced meditation you become light. You transcend self, ego, time, space, and dimensionality.

I would suggest to you that at this moment you are the only self that you have ever had; you've never had a childhood; there wasn't a five-minute-ago time.

When the time comes for a change, you will find it occurring without having created it yourself. You may think that you are the doer and that you are creating the change. That's nonsense.

The personality structure at the time of death dissolves. You will never be exactly the you you are again.

And the voice grows stronger and stronger, and it's my voice this time and it's asking a question: How does she know?

I haven't have fun for a long time," Kaia said with a pout. "Me, either. Except with myself, but I don't suppose that counts." "It does the way I do it.

Politicians have a tremendous amount of ego to be able to do it. It's very hard when the product your selling to an entire country is yourself and you're just selling the hell out of it all the time.

People say, 'Oh, you've sacrificed so much, now's the time to do something for yourself.' I mean, please - that is so wrong. I don't think I've sacrificed one f-king thing.

I still have a hard time just calling myself a musician. If I'm talking to somebody and they ask me what I do, I say I play music.

Each time that you don't know you are choosing, then of those choices you are not the chooser.

This uneasiness comes over me from time to time, and I feel as if I've somehow been pieced together from two different puzzles.

I'm me, and at the same time not me. That's what it felt like. A very still, quiet feeling.

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.