Quotes About Self

You can't run away from yourself !!

Apri gli occhi, guardati dentro. Sei soddisfatto della vita che stai vivendo?

None but ourselves can free our minds.

You cannot control the chaos. You can control you.

What is your passion? What have you achieved? What have you done uncommonly well? How are you wired? Where do you belong? What are the "shoulds" that have trailed you during the first half? These and other questions like them will direct you toward the self your heart longs for; they will help you discover the task for which you were especially made.

Always ask yourself the question "Is this going to help get me to my goal or not?

Inside me there's a thin person struggling to get out, but I can usually sedate him with four or five cupcakes.

One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Se debe tener confianza en uno mismo y esa confianza debe estar basada en la realidad" (Bobby Fischer)

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.

As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.

But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.

Förbättra dig. Det enda du kan göra för att göra världen bättre är att förbättra dig själv.

Detta krig som jag har utkämpat mot kroppen, denna medfödda motsättning mellan själ och kropp. [...] Kriget är över nu, jag vann och jag gratulerar mig till segern även om den kom väl sent.

and he was off to his forest trails, his side roads, because when he was on his bicycle he could breathe like nowhere else, and the rhythmic breathing and the solitude brought him back to himself, allowed him to get a grip, no more obsessively weighing himself, no more feeling for his pulse, and one evening he came home scented with anise, he'd had a few shots of Prost?jov rye in some pub, and that evening he slept like a baby..

was whispered unto his spirit that spiritual merchandise hath its beginning in the contempt of the world, and that the warfare of Christ is to be begun by victory over self.

it was whispered unto his spirit that spiritual merchandise hath its beginning in the contempt of the world, and that the warfare of Christ is to be begun by victory over self.

Many scriptures suggest this longing arises from an unconscious, deeper part of self that wants to be remembered.

Important, too, is the pride we feel in the well-exercised body. "The fuller sense of self we have," Young once told an interviewer, "the more responsibility we take for it.

Swimming's benefit, he argues, has as much to do with intellectual enhancements as it does the achievements of the body. The ideal modern swimmer focuses on the whole experience rather than the perception of exercise as a "tune-up." Important, too, is the pride we feel in the well-exercised body. "The fuller sense of self we have," Young once told an interviewer, "the more responsibility we take for it.

I can't change the world but I can change the world in me.

It was a line on our second album, October, that led from one record to the other. In 1981, a young man, I'd sung, "I can't change the world but I can change the world in me." Now, in my fifties, I found myself writing something different: "I can change the world, but I can't change the world in me.