Self Quotes
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I firmly believe that intuitive or symbolic sight is not a gift but a skill - a skill based in self-esteem.
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Through adversity we find our better self.
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Any material form, or thought, or feeling, past or present, should be regarded as, 'This is not mine, this is not what I am, this is not my self.'
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
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When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that is no longer Self - the great secret!
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Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments in which the roar of the mill-wheel and the crane takes the place of other devotional music, and in which the worship of Mammon and Moloch is conducted with a tender reverence and an exact propriety; the merchant rising to his Mammon matins, with the self-denial of an anchorite, and expiating the frivolities into which he maybe beguiled in the course of the day by late attendance at Mammon vespers.
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Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception.
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I see the meaning of apocalypse as an unveiling of our deeper self.
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What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.
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And as to carrying religion into everything, how can one help it if one's religion is a vital part of one's self, not a cloak put on to go to church in and hang up out of the way against next Sunday?
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The Self awakens only as he contacts the Earth.
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There are four degrees of love: 1) Love of self for self's sake. 2) Love of God for self's sake. 3) Love of God for God's own sake. 4) Love of self for God's sake.
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What can not be spoken to the mother cannot be told to the self.
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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.
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We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.
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I shall gather myself into my self again, I shall take my scattered selves and make them one.
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Trust in your own self more than in all else.
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Choose a self and stand by it.
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Some of them had hardly developed a sense of self—they couldn’t even recognize themselves in a mirror.
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That the object of writing is to write to yourself, to let your self know what you have been trying to avoid.
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I think somebody who is more self-reflective should ask why they personally aren't going on that path. If amateurism is so great, why didn't you stay one? You have to look at the larger economy, a backdrop of unemployment; it's shitty out there.
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The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.
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No self is of itself alone.
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Our sense of Self depends on being able to organize our memories into a coherent whole.
