Quotes About Self

A man is sometimes lost in a dust of his own raising.

But I would reinvent myself if I could. As a sexy leading man! We all would like that, but I don't know how to.

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good.

Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain.

The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through delusive thinking they fail to perceive this.

Man is free; but not unless he believes he is[.]

A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.

Women fear endangering men's approval so much, we don't even wait for them to say no. Or else we protect them, even if it means saying no to ourselves.

A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be.

When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.

I know he [Julian Assange] is a man of fierce determination, and now living under the strain of house arrest in the Ecuadorean embassy as a "political exile," as he calls himself.

Remember, as each man and woman is a microcosm reflecting the larger natural world, so healing of the self is also a healing for the world. As above, so below.

Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.

A man's venom poisons himself more than his victims.

Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.

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

Too great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does the same.

The greatest inheritance that a man hath is the liberty of his person, for all others are accessory to it.

Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.