Quotes About Self

Stephen had no great love of the English government in its dealing with Ireland; in fact he had actively conspired against it. But he was deeply attached to individual English men and women, and in any case he did not like anyone to abuse the country but himself.

Self-stigma refers to the state in which a person with mental illness has come to internalize the negative attitudes about mental illness and turns them against him- or herself.

To make yourself, it is also necessary to destroy yourself.

Winning's never about what anyone else does. It's something that happens between you and yourself. You don't look to the left or the right. You just jump in the water and swim with everything you have. You swim for your life, Ma, and when you reach the finish line and look up, whoever you thought you were competing against is gone. Poof.

Everything we do we choose. So what is there to regret? You are the person you chose to be.

Life's all about 'me' anyway

Although this was not a comforting point of view, he did not reject it, because it coincided with one of his basic beliefs: that a man must at all costs keep some part of himself outside and beyond life. If he should ever for an instant cease doubting, accept wholly the truth of what his senses conveyed to him, he would be dislodged from the solid ground to which he clung and swept along with the current, having lost all objective sense, totally involved with existence.

La humanidad es todos salvo uno mismo. Entonces, ¿Qué interés puede tener para nadie?

Ye that are slaves of the self and toil in its service from morn until night, ye that live in constant fear of birth, old age, sickness, and death, receive the good tidings that your cruel master exists not. Self is an error, an illusion, a dream. Open your eyes and awaken. See things as they are and ye will be comforted. He who is awake will no longer be afraid of nightmares. He who has recognized the nature of the rope that seemed to be a serpent will cease to tremble.

Some say that the self endures after death, some say it perishes. Both are wrong and their error is most grievous.

We obtain and, even worse, boast about our identity by the things we consume (television, food) more than truth, goodness, and beauty, the three virtues that transcend time and borders. In America and elsewhere, I am because I consume, when it should be because God is and because I do.

Ignorance and ego, what a lethal combo.

Your commitment to other people must be an extension of your commitment to yourself, not at odds with it.

Keep your identity small.

The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.

A person's bathroom, I believe, is the only three-dimensional expression of their soul.

You're the enemy. You're the one who's going to defeat yourself.

Listen, stranger; this was myself: this was I.

Be yourself! Be individualistic!' he called out after me. 'But for God's sake get your hair cut. You look like an oddball.

she lost herself in a delirious absence from herself which restored her to love and, perhaps, brought her to the edge of death.

I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body.

Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.

You are what you believe yourself to be

If I must be faithful to someone or something, I have, first of all, have to be faithful to myself.