Quotes About Self

How do you know you haven't been asleep your whole life? How do you know you're not asleep right now?

If I am not for myself, Who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, What am I? And if not now, when? — Hillel, Sayings of the Fathers

you see, Dan, when you resist what happens, your mind begins to race ; the thoughts that assail you are actually created by you

In so doing, it's important to place responsibility where it truly belongs by acknowledging that: You aren't responsible for what your parents did to you, they are. You are responsible for what you do with your life now, your parents aren't.

The strongest beings are those who sing themselves into existence.

I read this, as you do, with hope for my sanity and hope for salvation, not of my soul, but salvation of self in the renewed certainty or reunion--real reunion, physical reunion--with the one whom I remember and love above all others. And this is the best reason to read.

Crozier hurts to the cavity in the center of his self where he is sure his soul had resided until it floated away on a sea of whiskey over the decades.

Call me Mort, Sol.

said the bald little androgyny.

We all retreat into ourselves in some way.

One of my favorite things was from the Tattireeya Upanishads. It goes—'I am this world, and I eat this world. Who knows this, knows.

I can tell you that the writing of a book, no matter how deeply, profoundly personal-if it is literature, if you have attended to the formidable task of illumination the human heart in conflict with itself-will do the opposite of expose you. It will connect you. With others. With the world around you. With yourself.

Sometimes I think I have organized the inner crowd. For a brief, breathtaking moment, I feel completely whole. I understand that I am composed of many selves that make up a single chorus. To listen to the music this chorus makes, to recognize it as music, as something noble, varied, patterned, sublime--that is the work of a lifetime.

Do you know the three great spiritual questions? he asked...Who am I?...Why am I here?...And how shall I live?

Is who we are the same as who we believe ourselves to be?

I believe he doesn't regret it. But still, has being with me stopped him from being him?

But when the self—not a fictional character—is the landscape of the story, we can't afford to be blind to our own themes and the strands weaving through them. And so we must make a map, even as the ground shifts beneath us. This is, of course, not only a literary problem. —

I want a stable man in my life. One who will be there, but will give me enough room to be free, to breathe, to live. And one I can love, but not sacrifice my soul for.

All my life I had known there was a secret. What I hadn't known: the secret was me.

He isn't trying to transform himself into something different; he's trying to transform someone different back into himself.

The Wissenschaftslehre is Fichte's means for coming to terms with, and if possible, mitigating, the painful existential division within our own selves.

It's not the highs along the way that matter. It's who you become.

practical skills that are based on its five elements: self-awareness, motivation, self-regulation, empathy, and adeptness in relationships.

Si quieres cambiar el mundo, primero intenta mejorar, hacer un cambio dentro de ti. Así contribuirás a cambiar a tu familia y a partir de ahí el cambio se expandirá - Dalai Lama.