Quotes About Self

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

Boredom lies in our character, not in the world. "If you're bored," I've heard it said, "you're boring." Think about this. When you're bored, you tend to bore others. Conversely, when you're bored, it is because you are boring: you are the one who engages in the act of boring. It's not the world that is boring you, it is you who are boring the world.

Your knowledge belongs to your spirit. Your wealth belongs to your body.

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

A comedian who starts talking to himself becomes his own audience. This is fatal.

I'm crucified between the sky of what I intend to be and the earth of my performance.

That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

I can put on a hat, or put on a coat, Or wear a pair of glasses or sail a boat. I can change all my names and find a place to hide. I can do most anything, but I'm still myself inside. I can go far away, or dream of anything, Or wear a scary costume or act like a king. I can change all my names and find a place to hide. I can do almost anything, but I'm still myself. I'm still myself. I'm still myself inside.

Who you are inside is what helps you make and do everything in life.

The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.

We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence.

Changing your birth name is like divorcing your Self from Your Divine Plan.

He neither knew where he was, nor whither he was going, he could have no plan because he could foresee nothing, everything happening was inevitable and unexpected, he was an act in a whole chain of acts; and, though his movements had to conform to those of others, spontaneously, as part of some infinitely flexible plan, which he could not comprehend very clearly even in regard to its immediate object, he could rely on no one but himself.

Within the mind, especially the mind under great stress... boundaries of space and time are meaningless, and the... interior self lives by other rules and in other dimensions.

Satori (enlightenment) is described as nothing seeing itself as such.

Self, stands in contradistinction to the Hindu doctrine of Atman

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

The one you confront in Yoga is yourself. All that is rigid and stiff in you, all that says 'No.

Sorrow is a sanctuary as long as self is kept outside. [...] let us not foster, embrace, rekindle and indulge our grief. For then our sorrow is a selfish and luxurious fiction, a ground in which the Holy Spirit will not dig.

Bibo, ergo sum. - I drink, therefore I am

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

La belleza y la fealdad son un espejismo, porque los demás terminan viendo nuestro interior.

i am my own muse, i am the subject i know best. the subject i want to know better.