Quotes About Self

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us.

The world's most sensible and the most idiotic person lies within us.. the worst part is we can't say who is who

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us. The worst part is, you can't even tell who is who.

Sure, there's no "I" in "team" but there is a "ME"!

Why do we alienate ourselves so much from our bodies? It's that big piece of machinery attached to your head.

The past does not have the power to undermine your future. Only you can do that.

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It's passing, yet I'm the one who is doing all the moving. I'm not the station, I'm not the stop; I'm the train. I'm the train.

If we run from the truth of our existence we become a lie...

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

In violence we forget who we are, just as we forget who we are when engaged in sheer perception.

A vice is a harm I do to myself in the pursuit of pleasure.

In the looking-glass we see our form, in wine the heart.

Winter is the slow-down Winter is the search for self Winter gives the silence we need to listen Winter goes gray so we can see our own colors...

Herein a power lies, within the reach Of all who study what it fain would teach; Whereby the writer by his pen doth show The inward self of those we outward know...

A signature is the shape of our personality; it's our nameprint, our soulmark in ink.

How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself!...

All we can see is reality filtered with self.

The two most empowering words in the English language are: I choose.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

When you dance to your own rhythm, Life taps its toes to your beat.

Don't try so hard to impress. People fall in love with vulnerabilities more than strengths.