Quotes About Self

No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.

Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.

Who I am depends not only on what I believe but on the beliefs embedded in the practices of the various communities to which I belong and in terms of which I define my identity.

There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat

She knew from her own experience what a great labour it was, binding up again all the mess of self, which in your extremity you had unbound.

And then every so often, as if a switch flicked between two versions of myself, I suddenly wasn't all right

If I was free, if I was just me, then what was I?

If I was free, if I was just me, then what was I? What could I do; what could I become

she had felt weightless and carefree, as if she could go back to a bright, hard, selfish time when she had only herself to think about.

only inasmuch as the injury had been secret, she was doing herself justice as best she could.

This grace of light has been given to me during my retreat. Our Lord desires that we should receive Him into our hearts, and no doubt they are empty of creatures. Alas! mine is not empty of self; that is why He bids me come down. And I shall come down even to the very ground, that Jesus may find within my heart a resting-place for His Divine Head

The rational mind finds yielding to fear an irresistible temptation; but by indulging in this temptation, the mind slays itself.

THE STATUS OF WARRIOR IS NOT THE END RESULT OF HAVING UNDERGONE A PARTICULAR TRAINING PROGRAMME, BUT IS RATHER A SILENT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF SELF WHICH COMES FROM KNOWING THAT ONE HAS BECOME IMPECCABLE IN TRAVELLING THE WARRIOR'S PATH. TO BE A WARRIOR IS NOT A GOAL IN ITSELF, BUT IS INSTEAD AN ETERNAL QUEST FOR KNOWLEDGE AND FREEDOM STRETCHING INTO INFINITY.

The world is what you have chosen to believe it is. Likewise you are whatever you have chosen to believe you are.

We are whatever we believe ourselves to be.

The highest form of consciousness is self consciousness

Your only stumbling block is the man in the mirror"

Perhaps many of us do not like it where we are in the Universe right now, but we can all be certain that we got where we are by our own decisions to expand in love or withdraw from it.

One's own self conquered is better than all other people.

who says we can't touch ourselves to keep from getting bored? nothing else is touching thats for sure

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

Not only is the self entwined in society it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

Humanity had to inflict terrible injuries on itself before the self, the identical, purpose-directed, masculine character of human beings was created, and something of this process is repeated in every childhood.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say "I".