Quotes About Self

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

He who harbors hatred and bitterness injures himself far more than the one towards whom he manifests these evil propensities.

Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.

I have a black look I do not like. It is a mask I try on. I migrate toward it and its frog sits on my lips and defecates.

Over the years he seemed to have shrunk, trying to make himself invisible to Ivy, or maybe to God.

I hate the thought that I'm just some kind of Russian nesting doll with the big outside and inevitably, rattling around under all the layers, a crude little peg with a face is the truth of me.

But some words to men and women, boys and girls alike: The quality of the work must merit the readers' time and money. Do it for yourself, but make yourself a member of your own audience. There is no other way to evaluate your own progress.

What happened to your hand? It got hit by a mirror. How'd that happen? I lost my temper at myself.

Ego is a brain function and as such mortal.

On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.

Does it matter who we are, or what we keep or lose?

Self Government by extravagance and incompetence brings its own end.

What I am not," he says, most truthfully, "that for me is God

To rise again - to be the same person that you were - you must have your memory perfectly fresh and present; for it is memory that makes your identity. If your memory be lost, how will you be the same man? Why do mankind flatter themselves that they alone are gifted with a spiritual and immortal principle? Perhaps from their inordinate vanity. I am persuaded that if a peacock could speak he would boast of his soul, and would affirm that it inhabited his magnificent tail.

Vanity increases with age.

Everything, in so far as it is in itself, endeavors to persist in its own being; and the endeavor wherewith a thing seeks to persist in its own being is nothing else than the actual essence of that thing";

Know in thyself and All one self-same soul; banish the dream that sunders part from whole.

I was aware and increasingly suspicious of the separation between the things i felt and the voice that interpreted those feelings. We really are, as people sometimes glibly say, a mystery to ourselves. we really are

for now though our investigation into how future enters and then changes us must return to the idea of the self as a storyteller. In doing so we will realize just how porous the boundary is really is between the stories that surround us and the story that is us.

We please others best-and best satisfy ourselves-only when we have done our own job fully and thus fulfilled our own potential.

If you have form'd a Circle to go into, / Go into it yourself & see how you would do.

He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God. He who sees the Ratio only sees himself only.

He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God. He who sees the Ratio only sees himself only. Therefore God becomes as we are, that we may be as he is

I have no name: I am but two days old.