Quotes About Self

Thus Luther is responsible for the notion, central to questions of identity, that the inner self is deep and possesses many layers that can be exposed only through private introspection.

The inner self is the basis of human dignity

We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.

Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.

Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society.

Man is the future of man.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

My mind is my kingdom.

do we not love each other enough, or do we love ourselves too much!

Maybe that was how to heal. I told myself stories and learned that I could be made of the ones I chose to tell, not simply the ones that life had laid haphazardly around me.

Los dioses del hombre jamás han tenido otra cara que la del hombre mismo [...] si mi dios no existe ¿quién soy yo?

Eso fue el románico: una gracia que se evitaba a sí misma.

Darkness, grievances and all painful emotions are the realm of the unknown. They are not horrible issues to hide or something wrong that needs to be fixed. When darkness comes into our life, this is a major opportunity to move beyond our bogus self and embrace the mystery of who we truly are.

Do you want to know who you are? But if you don't know who you are, who is it that wants to know who you are? You can hardly know who you are if you don't know who wants to know who you are.

You have more friends within than without… Yet you also have more enemies within than without. As a matter of fact, all your friends and enemies are within! And also those who are neither friends nor enemies. They are all within. Everyone and everything is within. So who's out there? Out there, there is just yourself.

The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.

Sweet fiction, in which bravado and despair beckon from a cold panache, in which the protected essential self suffers flashes of its existence to be immortalized by a writing self that is incapable of performing its actions without mixing our essence with what is false.

Cum acolo unde face ce face, el nu este: Cum atunci când face nu este: De-aici baza înstr?in?rii noastre de sine. - Marx, în 1844

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.

It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.

Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it's a medium for communication with the dead, including our dead selves, the way we used to be, which is why we're drawn to it.

Freedom is from within.

The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.