Self Quotes
-
The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self.
-
A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
-
The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all
-
The profound self is a universal self.
-
Many people who excel are self-taught.
-
If happiness comes at all: which is by no means prearranged; it comes by the way, while you are seeking for something else. Something outside yourself, beyond yourself: in a brief absorption of self-forgetfulness.
-
It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
-
It's pretty self-explanatory. If we play well, we know what our picture is. If we don't play well, we'll know what our picture is.
-
Revenge is self-defeating. It will eat away you until there is nothing left.
-
...as far as self-discipline goes, it's still ultimately up to me how well I can push myself. Only I can do that. I just have to keep on going, keep on working, keep on improving.
-
A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
-
Find your true self. The old question, asked in many ages, "Who am I?" Once you figure out who am I, and you know who am I, then you have that knowledge of self.
-
What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.
-
What a fool you must be," said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.
-
I'm more interested in the psychic intricacies that they build up and try to run away from, and how they self-construct. A lot of my work is about self-construction. Here, it's those folks who are deeply wounded and bewildered. They're not just victims of trauma; they've been shaken so forcefully that they don't quite know how or where to stand.
-
I want to embrace my full self, as natural as I can be.
-
You don't want to see things as they are because your ego would have to admit that things outside yourself are necessary for the self to be. You still have fun, as most people do, from manipulating things.
-
The best discipline, maybe the only discipline that really works, is self- discipline.
-
Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.
-
The Self awakens only as he contacts the Earth.
-
Our competition in life is solely with our old self.
-
Shadows are where magic comes from. Your dark and dancing self, slipping behind and ahead and around, never quite looking at the sun.
-
I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room I had at last filled with myself to the point of paying no more attention to the room than to that self. The anesthetizing influence of habit having ceased, I would begin to have thoughts, and feelings, and they are such sad things.
-
Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.
