Quotes About Self

A great deal of our suffering arises because we are conflicted about reputation. Instead of being concerned about the reality of what we are, we're concerned about what other people think of us. We're too outward looking. That's incredible. As far as Buddhism is concerned, that's a sick mind; totally, clinically sick.

Tantra considers it very important to eradicate such symptoms of ego. There is no point in holding garbage-concepts of yourself. You are perfect; you just need to recognize it. According to tantra, you do not need to wait until your next life to experience heaven.

The ego is the mind that misunderstands the nature of the I. We generally feel that the I exists somewhere vaguely within the body. To gain a correct picture of reality, it is necessary to investigate deeply and try to find out exactly where this I resides. When we make a thorough search for our self, looking throughout our entire body and nervous system, we can never find it. Sometimes we may think we have located it, but upon closer examination we can see that we have been deceived.

It's so great to be able to make people laugh, because this is so often how we get our selves back.

I am all the ages I've ever been.

The inner Min starved; she woke in the middle of the night, then lay for hours wondering what was wrong.

Who are you? Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies? Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them? I have. I am fucking crazy. But I am free.

I'm at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God so there's really nothing else that I worry about.

If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings.

Two things I recognize, O Lord, in myself: Nature, which Thou hast made; Sin, which I have added.

The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.

Whoever loves you now—and you must also love yourself—will love the truth of you.

No one blames her." "That never matters," said Alec. "Not when you blame yourself.

she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face.

Every decision you make, makes you. Never let other people choose who you're going to be.

One can give up many things for love, but one should not give up oneself.

We are all what our pasts have made us," Catarina said. "The accumulation of thousands of daily choices. We can change ourselves, but never erase what we've been.

One can give up many things for love, but should not give up oneself

Magnus had learned to be careful about giving his memories with his heart. When people died, it felt like all the pieces of yourself you had given to them went as well. It took so long, building yourself back up until you were whole again, and you were never entirely the same.

It's not Cowardly to make a choice about what you want your life to be. Choosing what's right for you, maybe that's the bravest thing you can do.

It really was getting difficult to be wonderful.

I do not ever want another love

This Comanche cannot change his face." "And I can't change mine.

the more you rely on what you need, the more you become that which you rely on.