Quotes About Self

The point is, it didn't even look like my face. It was the face of any twenty-four-year-old guy who might have been sitting across the way on the commuter train. My face, my self, what would they mean to anybody? Just another stiff. So this self of mine passes some other's self on the street – what do weh ave to say to each other? Hey there! Hi ya!That's about it. Nobody raises a hand. No one turns around to take another look.

If you look at it the other way round, that's the only reason why this world is inside of me. Maybe it's a paradox, like an image reflected to infinity in a pair of facing mirrors. I am a part of this world, and this world is a part of me.

No matter how far you go, you can never be anything but yourself.

I can't afford to take responsibilities for others' lives. It's all I can do to bear the weight of my own life and my own loneliness

Although I was lonely, I was not unhappy. I was able to cling to myself. At least now I had a self to cling to.

For the sake of argument, let's say all your choices and all your effort are destined to be a waste. You're still very much yourself and nobody else. And you're forging ahead, as yourself. So relax.

For it is just as sinful from the standpoint of nature and of truth to be above oneself as to be below oneself.

You need to use the thread of logic, as best you can, to skillfully sew onto yourself everything that's worth living for.

It's like I'm spilt in two and playing tag with myself. One half is chasing the other half around this big, fat post. The other me has the right words, but this me can't catch her.

The wakefulness was always there beside me. I could feel its chilling shadow. It was the shadow of myself. Weird, I would think as the drowsiness overtook me, I'm in my own shadow. I would walk and eat and talk to people inside my drowsiness.

My self in the mirror is just a physical reflection.

By our trust in the divine beauty in every person we develop that beauty in ourselves.

Your superhuman power was to be able not to feel. Is it there inside everybody, this self that comes out while you are in captivity? You become the closest approximation of yourself that can tolerate living there.

You have to know that the life you have is completely yours

There is nothing as frustrating as being consumed with rage over someone and knowing that you aren't even on their mind. You want your enemy to be engaged in a struggle until the death with you. Otherwise you are fighting yourself. I mean we are all essentially only in wars against ourselves, but we don't like it to be so painfully obvious.

We are all essentially only in wars against ourselves, but we don't like it to be so painfully obvious.

Should we not be concerned as to whether this fear of error is not just the error itself?

Eternity will not be nor has it been, it is. Spirit is the we that is I or the I that is we.

Just as light is manifestion of itself and its other, that which is dark, and can only know itself by revealing that other, so too with the ego, which is only rrevealed to itself in so far as its other is revealed to it in the shape of something independent of it.

Every consciousness pursues the death of the other.

You see, things being good has nothing to do with how you feel outside, it is all to do with how you are inside.

barometer of success in later life is not that they always win, but how they deal with failure. An ability to pick themselves up when they fall, retaining their optimism and sense of self, is a far greater predictor of future success than class position in Year 3.

Decided to have a cappuccino and chocolate croissants on way to work to cheer self up. Do not care about figure. Is no point as no one loves or cares about me.

I mean, I haven't rushed to the answerphone once to see if anyone's aware of my existence in the world!