Quotes About Self

the you you are with others is not you. To be lonesome is to be who you most fully are.

And she [Ada] thought momentarily that she ought to worry about losing her beauty, about having become brown and stringy and rough. And then she thought that you went on living one day after another, and in time you were somebody else, your previous self only like a close relative, a sister or brother, with whom you shared a past. But a different person, a separate life.

That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.

our inner selves can't help but come along

History reveals a person's deeds—their outward character but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life rounded by a dream—unpenetrated, unguessed.

It seemed a poor swap to find that the only way one might keep from fearing death was to act numb and set apart as if dead already, with nothing much left of yourself but a hut of bones

You'll find that as you grow old, you stop bothering to hide the self you've been all along.

You are a living mockery of your own ideals. If not, you have set your ideals too low.

We developed differently, of course, but we all had the same problem." The yawning hole in the center of our badly designed lives. "How can you love yourself if you can't love somebody else?

I am me and I have been Juliette and both of us have dreamed this dream repeatedly. And what makes this dream so unfortunate is that it is a true thing that happened to someone else ... who is both of us.

MONDAY DAWNS BRIGHT AND HOT AND EARLY, AND I FIND MY SELF waking to the happy knowledge that I can go back to work, and nobody will order me home.

my middle names aren't Oliver and Francis.

I am the proud owner of a gaping hole in my soul.

D?gen Zenji said, "To look for the Buddha dharma outside of yourself is like putting a devil on top of yourself." Master Rinzai said, "Place no head above your own." That is, to look outside of ourselves for true peace and satisfaction is hopeless.

Awareness is our true self; it's what we are.

LIFE'S MAJOR PURSUIT IS NOT KNOWING SELF . . . BUT KNOWING GOD. . . . UNLESS GOD IS THE MAJOR PURSUIT OF OUR LIVES, ALL OTHER PURSUITS ARE DEAD-END STREETS, INCLUDING TRYING TO KNOW OURSELVES.

Too often when embarking on a journey, we focus on what needs to get done without looking at who we need to become in order to get there.

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us. The worst part is, you can't even tell who is who.

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within you. The worst part is you can't even tell who is who.

Sometimes the biggest enemy you have is down deep in your own soul.

every woman's mind is her kingdom. Rule it wisely, lassie.

the property that grounded the self in Romanticism was sincerity, and in modernism was authenticity, then in postmod ernism it is visibility.10

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.