Quotes About Self

For a conscious being, to exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating one's self endlessly.

we shall not dwell for the present on the effort to delve down to the depths of our being. If possible at all, it is exceptional: and it is on the surface, at the point where it inserts itself into the close-woven tissue of other exteriorised personalities, that our ego generally finds its point of attachment; its solidity lies in this solidarity.

In realtà, ogni momento della nostra vita è creazione; per un essere cosciente, "esistere" significa cambiare; cambiare nel maturarsi; e maturarsi nel creare se stesso all'infinito.

It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illumination the fog that surround

There is not one self. There are not ten selves. There is no self. ME is only a position in equilibrium. (One among a thousand others, continually possible and always at the ready.) An average of "me's," a movement in the crowd. In the name of many, I sign this book.

I was the fireworks that despises the pyrotechnist, even when it can be proved that it is itself the pyrotechnist.

I have another duty equally sacred… My duty to myself.

Man loves most that which is his own.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

To be acquainted with what is best and oldest in yourself, is to know yourself as you were, before the world was made, before you emerged into time.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize the infinite extent of our relations.

The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can't are both right. Which one are you?

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.

If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right.

Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right

Si crees que puedes o no puedes, igual tienes la razón.