Self Quotes

When is one considered a vitarag (free of attachment)? It is when he has no fear of anything in this world.

~ Dada Bhagwan

What fear do you have? You, yourself are the absolute Self! If absolute-Self becomes fearful, then the whole universe will have fear! ‘We’ are on the other side of the prakruti [relative self’s world].

~ Dada Bhagwan

Self-preservation is to hunker down in the suffocating confines of this infinitesimally tiny existence that I define as ‘me,’ instead of letting ‘me’ run through the infinitely massive expanse of everything that is not me. And if the beast of self-preservation does not permit such freedoms, I will preserve myself to my own death.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

After reading Burgum, [Patricia Highsmith] wrote in her cahier that, like Kafka, she felt she was a pessimist, unable to formulate a system in which an individual could believe in God, government or self. Again like Kafka, she looked into the great abyss which separated the spiritual and the material and saw the terrifying emptiness, the hollowness, at the heart of every man, a sense of alienation she felt compelled to explore in her fiction. As her next hero, she would take an architect, 'a young man whose authority is art and therefore himself,' who when he murders, 'feels no guilt or even fear when he thinks of legal retribution'. The more she read of Kafka the more she felt afraid as she came to realise, 'I am so similar to him.

~ Andrew Wilson

Being one’s true and honest self can often be dangerous; and poetry should always be a place where, if only between the pages, that danger and energy and fear and excitement and love can fizz and spark without ever threatening to burn something down.

~ Andrew Mcmillan

However far I’ve come, it’s probably somewhere less than halfway of where I could be if I simply believed in myself.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

When you believe the truth about yourself, the truth that people are created to solve problems and overcome the limitations of their nature you make a name for yourself

~ Sunday Adelaja

Be your own Guru.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Self-discovery is life recovery.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Sometimes to change a situation you are in requires you to take a giant leap. But, you won't be able to fly unless you are willing to transform.

~ Suzy Kassem

If you are not interested in yourself, then nobody is. But there is no reason to be self-obsessed.

~ Amit K Ghosh

But even a vessel pulsates, beats and pumps in ecstasy and in rage!I wonder are the way we are because we are trying to protect ourselves from the “monsters” not realizing this fear that we are harboring inside us is turning us into goblins and ghouls ourselves? Not even a heart caged inside of ribs can be protected. Who can really be to blame for your broken heart?In-turn we find our own vices , our own ways to cope, ways that we petrify our bodies our lives in such a fashion so we can stop and notice the stars sparkling in the sky everything and everyone that embodies love YOUR LOVE… and every spec dancing in our own light, specs we failed to see because of our own faults.

~ Quietstormpoet

Don't try to reach perfection. Just try to reach an inner and outer realization of self.

~ Imania Margria

What you do with ease is your passion. It is a realm of flow like a continuous flowing stream .

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In order to be a success, you must think like success. Get up and move! You got to make things happen.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Seek spirituality of thy soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The greatest self are self-improvement, self-development and self-discovery.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To no one, he knew, not even to Willem. But he'd had years to learn how to keep his thoughts to himself; unlike his friends, he had learned not to share evidence of his oddities as a way to distinguish himself from others, although he was happy and proud that they shared theirs with him

~ Hanya Yanagihara

If people don't appreciate your REAL self it's hard to be with them, but you only find TRUE friends by SHOWING that self & TRUSTING.

~ Jay Woodman

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

~ Stephen Fry

When you try to talk about yourself, you dont know who you are, or what your like, or what your like to other people. And the moment you do it's a formula for yourself, and then you're imitating yourself, and then nobody likes you and they dont know why.

~ Carol Channing

On the late afternoon streets, everyone hurries along, going about their own business.Who is the person walking in front of you on the rain-drenched sidewalk?He is covered with an umbrella, and all you can see is a dark coat and the shoes striking the puddles.And yet this person is the hero of his own life story.He is the love of someone’s life.And what he can do may change the

~ Vera Nazarian

People do not know what good deeds are. It is udaya karma,unfolding effects of past karma; that makes them do the deeds. The prakruti, the relative self, forces them to do them. What is your own thing [effort] in that? Doing good deeds; that too is mandatory (farajiyat)!

~ Dada Bhagwan

I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending or this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The longer I do my job the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.

~ John Green

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.

~ Fernando Pessoa

Most people spend their whole lives waging war—against people they don't even know. And against themselves, whom they know least of all. from BETWEEN TWO DESERTS

~ Germaine Shames

Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!

~ Fernando Pessoa

We must all allow ourselves the fantasy of projection from time to time, a chance to clothe ourselves in the imaginary gowns and tails of what has never been and never will be. This gives some polish to our tarnished lives, and sometimes we may choose one dream over another, and in the choosing find some respite from ordinary sadness. After all, we, none of us, can ever untangle the knot of fictions that make up that wobbly thing we call a self.

~ Siri Hustvedt

You are greater than you can possibly imagine, if you would only free yourself up to imagine.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I don't have dreams and inspiration. I just want to enjoy myself.

~ Jayson Zabate

The greatest self is the grace to live for your dreams.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The star rises from the east. Watch out! Your star will guide you.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

~ Toni Morrison

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

~ Jim Morrison

In that tremendous flash of freedom, on my way to do The Thing for the first time, sanctioned by Almighty Harry, I receded, faded back into the scenery of my own dark self, whole the other me crouched and growled. I would do It at last, do what I had been created to do. And I did.

~ Jeff Lindsay

But you can live in the most democratic country on earth, and if you're lazy, obtuse or servile within yourself, you're not free.

~ Ignazio Silone

Each of us needs something of an island in his life—if not an actual island, at least some place, or space in time, in which to be himself, free to cultivate his difference from others.

~ John C. Keats

The challenge of modern freedom, or the combination of isolation and freedom which confronts you, is to make yourself up. The danger is that you may emerge from the process as a not-entirely-human creature.

~ Saul Bellow

To embrace an attitude of humility is to free myself from myself. And that is likely the great liberation of all.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough