Self Quotes - Page 11

I am in a spot where I can neither be what I always am nor turn into what I could be.

Attachment-abhorrence is an ‘effect’ and ignorance (of the self) is the ‘cause’!

Neither you, nor me, are "just vampires." Being vampires is just a part of what we are. There is no need to feel bound and chained by it.

And like my comrades, I too have tasted the bittersweet assurance that I would be okay with myself. And like so many others out there, I have given that dream away to the wind and its power over the trees.

I was the chain that bit into my ankle, and I was the ruthless guard that never slept.

Question who is the doer. Is it the mind or the Self?

My past is everything I failed to be.

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

Be true to your sacred self.

A journey through nature is always a road to leads to self-discovery.

Because we feel ourselves to be separate from the world in which we live, we have also grown to feel quite alone in this world. Our sense of loneliness and isolation not only makes us feel depressed and miserable, but it also causes us to be anxious and afraid of the world and everyone in it. Because of this inherent fear, we put up all kinds of barriers to protect us from the world—barriers that we have created to keep us safe, but that really end up making us feel more alone, more miserable, and more afraid, as they prevent us from being our natural selves.

If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another before you do anything you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.

I myself am an absolute abyss.

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

Meanwhile, the self can stand in the way of the Not-Self, interfering with the free flow of spiritual grace, this maintaining the self in a state of blindness, and also with the flow of animal grace, which leads to the impairment of natural functions and, in the long run, of the slower processes called structure. For each individual human being, the main practical problems are these: How can I prevent my ego from eclipsing the inner light, synteresis, scintilla animae, and so perpetuating the state of unregenerate illusion and blindness? And these practical problems remain unchallenged, even if we abandon the notion of an entelechy or physiological intelligencer, of an atman or pneuma and think, instead, in terms [of] systems...

Your father used to say "Never give away your work. People don't value what they don't have to pay for."

To character and success two things contradictory as they may seem must go together-humble dependence and manly independence humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

She was a blank, a wordless being. She was a hole in the universe.

When you understand what you’re truly worth, who is going to be able to make you feel worthless? No one.

We must not be anything other than what we are.

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight. It is seeing things in a straight line without any bend or break or aberration of sight seeing them as they are without any warping of vision. Flawless mental sight! That is genius.

If you put a woman in a man's position she will be more efficient but no more kind.

I see myself through others eyes and I am made anew.

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

If it’s about me, I can be assured that there will be a bunch of empty chairs in the auditorium of my life; save the one I’m sitting in.

The flight away from self to God is not a "forgetting self" in the sense that man thereby loses himself. Rather, in the experience of the Spirit there is bestowed on man the deepest possible experience of himself: for the Holy Spirit is a Spirit of revelation which illuminate the human spirit, in which it is immanent, by telling man what he is.

Freedom means choosing your burden.

Is it that my habit of placing myself in the souls of other people makes me see myself as others see or would see me if they noticed my presence there? It is. And once I've perceived what they would feel about me if they knew me, it is as if they were feeling and expressing it at that very moment. It is a torture to me to live with other people. Then there are those who live inside me. Even when removed from life, I'm forced to live with them. Alone, I am hemmed in by multitudes. I have nowhere to flee to, unless I were to flee myself.

Whatever you is, Onion," he said, "be it full.

Women who are confident of their abilities are more likely to succeed than those who lack confidence even though the latter may be much more competent and talented and industrious.

You mustn't force images on things.Only gods were what you should expect perfection from.You mustn't demand an ideal from anyone.That is weakness. It is an evil that must be hated. It is negligence that must be punished. It spoils not only yourself, but those around you.You are allowed to be disappointed with only yourself. You should hurt only yourself. Hate yourself for not following your ideal.The only one you must not forgive is yourself.

Make good use of bad rubbish.

You're a Genius all the time

I was tired of being me.

Self-reverence self-knowledge self-control. These three alone lead to sovereign power.

To enter your true self,check your ego at the door.

I am simple complex generous selfish unattractive beautiful lazy and driven.

I never really grew up until I had kids.

Writing is all at once an exploration of what is, and what is not. Of the known, and the unknown. A journey into the depths of self, and all of humankind.

A rich life is lived from a giving heart not a selfish mind.

This is me today, but take heed; it is not the same me as yesterday, and it will not be the same me tomorrow.

I'd just killed some of the best riders in the world - and I was clean. I'd taken nothing - no EPO, no cortisone, no testosterone, no painkillers, no caffeine. I had justified to myself that I was a great rider without drugs - yet perversely given myself the green light to dope again. I'd proved what I could do clean - how much more could I do if I was doped?

There is a realm in which miracles are possible and do take place. The door to this realm is the belief in all possibilities and YOU are the key.

Suppose you turn your attention inward in search of this 'I'. You may encounter nothing more than an ever changing stream of consciousness, a flow of thoughts and feelings in which there is no real self to be discovered.

I said just let me try one more time and she said, "THAT'S ENOUGH, ISABEL," again, and she could just say it over and over and it would never get through my thick skull because I'm always wanting and wanting because nothing is ever enough you are never enough I am never enough I am never enough I AM NEVER ENOUGH.

Know your real Self, beyond who you think you are.

The worst battle you'll have to fight is between what you know and how you feel.

The deeper interior you have the more you have in your library.

Hold tight to what is most yourself,Don't squander it, don't let your lifeBe governed by what disturbs you.

To hear complaints is wearisome to the wretched and the happy alike.

The best bet is to bet on yourself.

Self-respect is the root of discipline: the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

The divinity of thy soul is spark of divine-self.

Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

There is no shame in having been the woman I was. She made me the woman I am.

You are the product of your own brainstorm.

From self alone expect applause.

The world exists because your mind exists. If your mind didn’t exist, there would be no world. As you look at these words, you see them in what appears to be a reality outside of you. What you are really seeing is the image that your mind is creating from the electrical signals being sent to your brain. While they may appear to be outside of you, this is an illusion, they exist within your own mind, and are being projected to appear as if they are outside of you. This apparent reality that is projected by our minds, is maya, and to believe that maya is the ultimate reality is a result of ignorance, or avidya in Sanskrit.