Quotes About Self

When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting that I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in the painting than I am, then I won't see it.

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful: yourself.

The more a human being feels himself a self, tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection, the more drastically he steps out of the center of being.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth what one becomes.

Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects -themselves.

The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.

Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.

Man does not simply exist, but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.

Of all the injuries inflicted by racism on people of colour, the most corrosive is the wound within, the internalized racism that leads some victims, at unspeakable cost to their own sense of self, to embrace the values of their oppressors.

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

The proud hate pride - in others.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so unstintingly of his discovery to the world.

Automatic simply means that you can't repair it yourself.

If I look like this, I need the trip.

To dream too much of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

Reforms should begin at home and stay there.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

No matter how ill we may be, nor how low we may have fallen, we should not change identity with any other person.

Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is.