Quotes About Self

Don't ever smile if you don't want to,' she said.

Was she the bird trying to batter its way free, or was she the cage?

inquisitive chirp, a self that curled up at the edges.

I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.

The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's.

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

Quando tutto è perduto si ritrova noi stessi.

You are the best company for yourself.

Usually our feelings of being exploited and other complaints of that nature are merely the squealing of ego and nothing more.

starting point, the nature of ego.

The skandhas present a complete picture of ego. According to Buddhist psychology, the ego is simply a collection of skandhas or heaps—but actually there is no such thing as ego. It is a brilliant work of art, a product of the intellect, which says, "Let's give all this a name. Let's call it 'I.

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

la naissance ne suffit pas, il faut se créer.

If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.

For if there is ever a moment when we are most vulnerable, it's when we're closest to the idea of the attained desire, and thus farthest from ourselves, which is when we'll tread through any flame.

If I have to choose between you and me - I like me better.

The ninth gift is Reverence. May you appreciate the wonder that you are and the miracle of all creation.

The choices we make, make us. We

To have memory return is to find consciousness pervaded by a variety of identifications, all simultaneously composing and fragmenting a shared public space, until that space itself seems to authorise another, far more abstract and imposing 'I'.

While there may be no "I" in team, there is a "me".

There can be no progress (real, that is, moral) except in the individual and by the individual himself.

And if I could change my peer-driven party-animal self, maybe I could change everything.

I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is a civil war, and in all such contentions, triumphs are defeats.