Self Quotes - Page 9

In still moments by the sea life seems large-drawn and simple. It is there we can see into ourselves.

A good sweat with the blood pounding through my body makes me feel alive revitalized. I gain a sense of mastery and assurance. I feel good about myself. Then I can feel good about others.

When a man does not dwell in self, then things will of themselves reveal their forms to him. His movement is like that of water, his stillness like that of a mirror, his responses like those of an echo.

The deeper I go into myself the more I realize that I am my own enemy.

We lavish more attention onto our past, after its done, than in the making of it. as a result; "What is done" and "Could have been" becomes ruthless killers lurking in the darkness of our consciousness.

She was tired of everyone deciding her life for her. She was ready to figure out who she really was--not what anyone else told her to be.

Goethe said there would be little left of him if you were to discard what he owed to others.

The gods help those who help themselves.

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

Who are you?'I didn't understand the question.I'm Uri', he said. 'What's your name?'I gave him my name. 'Stopthief.

I'm quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird

Caroline had felt more comfortable thinking of beauty as something separate from her, like a scarf or a coat you could check before going in to a show. She wondered now, however, if she had treated more things as a part of herself rather than an accessory, perhaps everything would have turned out differently.

In Edmund Gosse, Agnes Smedley, Geoffrey Wolff, we have a set of memoirists whose work records a steadily changing idea of the emergent self. But for each of them a flash of insight illuminating that idea grew out of the struggle to clarify one's own formative experience; and in each case the strength and beauty of the writing lie in the power of concentration with which this insight is pursued, and made to become the the writer's organizing principle. That principle at work is what makes a memoir literature rather than testament.

The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it and if the world scoff let it scoff-if it sneer let it sneer.

Man (human life form) is a 'second-hand' quality of the absolute supreme Self (Parmatma, Lord). Man is close to the Lord [absolute supreme Self].

Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures ... they are the weakest however strong who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

All those that don’t allow us to do things for the Soul (our True Self), they are our opposers (kashays); we shouldn’t listen to them.

always say something! is either to yourself or to the world around!

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope without friends without books even without music as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

What will you do with your self? Many men and women are still in darkness, trying to figure out the meaning and purpose of life. But no matter what you try to do with your self— whether you deny it, obliterate it, annihilate it, accept it or express it—believe me, it is still alive and kicking.

Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment heredity and movements and changes in the world about him then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. ... Everyone has it within his power to say this I am today that I shall be tomorrow.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

Even if this is only nonsense and dreams, I feel the need to perpetuate it all. Especially at this moment, when this pain is taking over my mind and my self. Pretty soon none of this will make any difference.

Let us not forget that among [women's] rights is the right to speak freely.

The important thing is not what they think of me it is what I think of them.

The power to define the other seals one's definition of oneself.

There is no samkit (vision with right belief that I am Pure Soul) where there are kashays [anger, pride, deceit and greed], and where there are no kashays, there is samkit (self realization).

Keep one goal only and that is ‘to know thy Self [Soul]’. Do not be insistent about ‘I want to do this and do that’. Whatever happens, at whatever time, is correct.

In order to make the egoism non-existent [zero], the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] establishes the awareness of the Pure Soul within.

It's good when a man deceives your expectations, when he doesn't correspond to the preconceived notion of him. To belong to a type is the end of a man, his condemnation. If he doesn't fall into any category, if he's not representative, half of what's demanded of him is there. He's free of himself, he has achieved a grain of immortality.

Enlightenment is nothing but to experience your own mind. The experience of the self too is experiencing the intrinsic nature of the mind.

I won't explain why. If you're interesting, you'll find out who I am. One clue, I'm a ghost.

Isn't it strange that what we call "self" doesn't really constitute of our "own". It consists of parts and bits of so many people around us! People who helped us, people who laughed with us, people who wiped our tears, people who walked with us, people whom we looked up to as idols, people who silently followed us, people who hated us, people who challenged us! We are a net integral of all these, isn't it?

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture those experiences. Like vivid, rainbow metallic skin cells on the wings of a fragile butterfly, it is how you touch and reveal those inner parts of yourself, without damaging the psyche, that determines whether the beauty is experienced and expressed and shared with others or, in fact, becomes the death of the self and Soul and psyche. I hope that I capture something in my work that is about the elusive, the magical and powerful and the transformative. The writing in itself is transformative for me.

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble but [we do know] it is our sacred duty.

Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you never speak of them and don't ask about them.

Every man paddles his own canoe.

i was told i was conceited today.... but being conceited would imply that i see my self as being absolutely perfect.... but come on lets be real ........ EVERYONE KNOWS IM PERFECT.

You can live a lifetime and at the end of it know more about other people than you know about yourself.

There is nothing fulfilling than being in your own company ~

This above all: to thine own self be true.

I've triedto become someone else for a while,only to discover that he, too, was me.

I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are.

Can't get away from your own self.

The cure for grief is motion.

Doffing the ego'ssafe glory, he findshis naked reality.

Fair play with others is primarily not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us.

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken made verbal and shared even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

To pursue yourself is an interesting and absorbing thing to do. Once you have caught the scent of a hidden being your own hidden being you won't readily be deflected from the tracking down of it.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

It is human, to want to feel connected with others, to strive for a sense of belonging.Yet the ultimate hack is to belong with yourself.Once you belong within,You belong with all.

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are a subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who has suffered from insomnia.

I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis.

Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.

When is one considered to be in the awareness of ‘one’s own Self’? It is when all the desires become mild (when desires lessens).

To deal with things knowledge of things is needed. To deal withpeople, you need insight, sympathy. To deal with yourself, you neednothing. Be what you are--conscious being--and don't stray away fromyourself.

The difference between impossible and possible is a willing heart.

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.