Quotes About Self

I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds.

I don't want to ever change my mindset and expect less of myself as a defender.

I'm very much in a mindset that I take myself out of anything that I'm not involved in.

Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves.

I know personally that being a conservative minority is a test of character. Identity, after all, is an integral and cherished part of the self.

I think - for a period of time, I did think art was there to serve me, but it took me a minute to reset.

People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one's perception of reality, a barrier which Buddhism calls the attachment to the false view of self. Attachment to the false view of self means belief in the presence of unchanging entities which exist on their own.

When we are able to look deeply and let go of permanence, happiness, self, and purity, we arrive at insight. With this insight, instead of idealizing the object of our sensual desire, we can distinguish his or her true nature. We see that in essence he or she is impermanent, without a self, and impure—just like us.

You don't have to run anywhere to become someone else

If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.

According to our narrow view of a truly existing self, life is just my body, my house, my spouse, my children, and my riches. But if we can extend beyond every limit we have created for ourselves, we will see that our life exists in everything, and that the deterioration of phenomena cannot touch that life, just as the arising and disappearing of the waves cannot influence the being of the water.

Attachment to the false view of the self means belief in the presence of unchanging entities that exist on their own.

But don't believe that you see all that's contained in the depths of someone's eyes. If you have the impression that you know your beloved inside and outside, and that's why you're bored or restless, you're wrong. Are you sure that you know yourself?

But the word faith is better translated as "confidence" and "trust," because it is about something inside you and not directed toward something external.

La práctica de la plena consciencia consiste en volver a conectar profundamente, aquí y ahora, con nosotros mismos y con la vida. Esto

The practice of being mindful of your breathing, your walking, your breakfast-making helps you go home to yourself in the here and now, to be mindful of what is going on in your body, your feelings and your perceptions[.]

This body is not me; I am not caught in this body. I am life without boundaries. My nature is the nature of no birth and no death.

Every person is a unique and autonomous person and actually, considered independently, the greatest artwork of all time...

Again and again we try to escape ourselves, but we fail in our efforts, constantly run our heads into the wall because we don't want to recognize that we can't escape ourselves, except in death.

I'd always cared extremely little for public opinion because I was always obsessed with my own opinion and hence had no time at all for the public's.

Whereas we're not even capable of living, not even capable of existing, for we don't exist, we get existed.

Ciascuno di noi è completamente isolato in se stesso, anche se tra noi il legame è strettissimo. La vita intera non è altro che un tentativo ininterrotto di ritrovarci.

Montañas, resistencias, creadores de decenios destructores... tu expectativa de suicidio que continuamente hace caso omiso de ti.

Sav život provedemo u tome da sebe pojmimo i to nam ne uspijeva, pa kako onda povjerovati da možemo pojmiti nešto što najzad nismo mi.