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Quotes About Self

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.
~ Hesiod
No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.
~ James Allen
Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
~ Karel Capek
Identity" had been forever changed by the Internet; formerly it had meant "who you really are" but now it meant "any one of a number of persistent faces that you can present to the digital universe.
~ Neal Stephenson
To shave off the beard (or any body hair) is to symbolically annihilate the (essentially specious) boundary separating Self from Other
~ Neal Stephenson
Hamlet's a dull fuck of a story where a fellow stands around lamenting how useless he is even to his own self, and then there's one pansy swordfight and it's over. The only good part of that is what he nicked from Kit's Dido.
~ Neal Stephenson
Understand that in order for organized religion to succeed, it has to make people believe they need it. In order for people to put faith in something else, they must first lose faith in themselves. So the first task of organized religion is to make you lose faith in yourself. The second task is to make you see that it has the answers you do not. And the third and most important task is to make you accept its answers without question.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Everybody is doing everything for themselves…. When you understand that this is true even about dying, you will never fear dying again.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Yet I cannot be magnificent unless there is something to choose from. Some part of Me must be less than magnificent for Me to choose the part of Me which is magnificent.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Every act is an act of self-definition.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
The more you are, the more you can become, and the more you can become, the more you can yet be.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Betrayal of yourself in order not to betray another is betrayal nonetheless. It is the highest betrayal.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
all of life exists as a tool of your own creation, and all of its events merely present themselves as opportunities for you to decide, and be, Who You Are.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Rightness" or "wrongness" is not an intrinsic condition, it is a subjective judgment in a personal value system. By your subjective judgments do you create your Self—by your personal values do you determine and demonstrate Who You Are.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
HissediÅŸ Ruhun dilidir. Kendi'nin fark?ndal???, Kendinin gerçekten kim OlduÄŸunun Tümüyle hissedilmesiyle gerçekleÅŸir.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
El secreto más profundo es que la vida no es un proceso de descubrimiento, sino un proceso de creación. No te estás descubriendo a ti mismo, sino creándote desde cero. No busques entonces descubrir Quién Eres, sino determinar Quién Quieres Ser.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
That's what we're doing here. I'm going to lead you back to your Self … and thus, lead you back to Me. And this you will one day do for others. You will give people back to themselves—and thus, back to Me. For when you find your Self, you find Me. There I have always been, and there I will always be.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Alt du er, er du fordi du velger å være det.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
The soul speaks to you in feelings. Listen to your feelings. Follow your feelings. Honor your feelings.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Du har makt til å bestemme hvordan du skal føle deg, og hvordan du føler deg akkurat nå.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Do you even know who the enemy is? I think... it's me.
~ Ned Vizzini
I feel it in my pocket. I don't want to lose it. It's one of the only things that's making me me right now. Without my cell phone, who will I be? I won't have any friends because I don't have their numbers memorized. I'll barely have a family since I don't know their cell phone numbers, just their home line. I'll be like an animal.
~ Ned Vizzini
The therapists told you that you needed to find happiness within yourself before you got it from another person...
~ Ned Vizzini
Where are you supposed to put your arms when you dance? It's like the Universal Question.
~ Ned Vizzini