Self Quotes

Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.

~ Robert M. Sapolsky

The fact is that when you admit that you can’t blame anyone or anything else, you begin to blame yourself. The human mind gives up trying to find an executioner, but still it must blame someone. Anger that is not expressed tends to turn inward and, instead, attacks the very one who feels it. You move from anger and guilt into depression.

~ Kate Mcgahan

...you have to ask yourself two questions: Who am I? And how may I become myself?

~ Paul Beatty

I didn't totally fit in. I kind of disintegrated around people and became what they wanted me to be. But paradoxically, I felt an intensity inside me all the time. I didn't know what it was, but it kept building, like water behind a dam. Later, when I was properly depressed and anxious, I saw the illness as an accumulation of all that thwarted intensity. A kind of breaking through. As though, if you find it hard enough to let your self be free, your self breaks in, flooding your mind in an attempt to drown all those failed half-versions of you.

~ Matt Haig

Maybe anosognosia, the inability to see your own disability, is the human condition and I'm the only one who doesn't suffer from it.

~ Karen Joy Fowler

Somehow they fail to see that for someone aggravated by depression, self-help will be useless, indeed, it is precisely the self that needs to be forgotten.

~ Geoffrey Wood

Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self--to the mediating intellect--as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode, although the gloom, the blues which people go through occasionally and associate with the general hassle of everyday existence are of such prevalence that they do give many individuals a hint of the illness in its catastrophic form.

~ William Styron

If I am indeed my own god, I’d better start praying to myself to get myself out of myself.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Prayer is one action where I lay aside my abilities to immerse myself wholly in God’s capabilities. And the liberation found in such an action is less about being engaged with God and more about being freed from myself.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Your real self may be hiding somewhere, look for it within, when you find yourself, you can freely be what you want to be.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Make this poor self grow less and less, Be Thou my life and aim ; Oh, make me daily, through Thy grace, More worthy of Thy name.

~ Johann Kaspar Lavater

Life is a struggle with innerself.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Dare to be different. Dare to accept yourself for who YOU are. Dare to live your life without limits. Dare to follow YOUR dreams. Dare to explore, experience, and make mistakes. Dare to live your life without being afraid. Live, learn, and grow. It’s your life! Make every decision that you make count for something. Always know your value as a person and don’t allow anybody to make you feel anything different. You may have to stand alone at times, but don’t be dismayed. There’s something special about you! Allow yourself to shine and dare to do the unknown.

~ Stephanie Lahart

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.

~ Alain De Botton

Buying a book is not enough... You must absorb the knowledge it contains. Your personalized knowledge is not what's on your shelf, but how much you put into yourself!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I will not find myself, nor will I obtain any precarious morsel of life in giving all of life to myself. If I am ever to find these things, I must first be willing to give these things away at the very moment that I come into possession of them.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.

~ Lev Grossman

This time around I was so lonely that I was forced to be face to face with myself. Realizing at the end of the day I only have me and I didn't seem to like my own company. I decided to I had to make myself into someone I can live with.

~ Kandi Dougherty

I'm as proud of my inconsistencies as I am my consistencies.

~ Myles Horton

When all the teachers are gone, who will be your teacher?The student replied: “Everything!Kobun, paused, then said: “No, you.

~ Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi

The problem with introspection is that it has no end.

~ Philip K. Dick

Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. 'I am that I am' sums up the whole truth. The method is summed up in the words 'Be still'. What does stillness mean? It means destroy yourself. Because any form or shape is the cause for trouble. Give up the notion that 'I am so and so'. All that is required to realize the Self is to be still. What can be easier than that?

~ Ramana Maharshi

He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman.

~ Hermann Hesse

The self, when confined into the usual wakeful state of consciousness, is human, but when enters into the transcendental state of Absolute Oneness, becomes God.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Enlightenment comes when you understand the language of heart - the language of tree, birds and the nature.

~ Amit Ray

Meditation is experiencing the self in million ways.

~ Amit Ray

Meditation is cultivating the potential to transcend your limited self, limited beliefs and limited existence. It is stepping into the exciting territory of limitlessness.

~ Banani Ray

In order to know the Truth, you have to be out of your mind.

~ Vivian Amis

When you eliminate the Ego's intense desire to be correct, the clarity of the moment can come through. How simple is that?

~ Beth Johnson

With the passage of days in this godly isolation [desert], my heart grew calm. It seemed to fill with answers. I did not ask questions any more; I was certain. Everything - where we came from, where we are going, what our purpose is on earth - struck me as extremely sure and simple in this God-trodden isolation. Little by little my blood took on the godly rhythm. Matins, Divine Liturgy, vespers, psalmodies, the sun rising in the morning and setting in the evening, the constellations suspended like chandeliers each night over the monastery: all came and went, came and went in obedience to eternal laws, and drew the blood of man into the same placid rhythm. I saw the world as a tree, a gigantic poplar, and myself as a green leaf clinging to a branch with my slender stalk. When God's wind blew, I hopped and danced, together with the entire tree.

~ Nikos Kazantzakis

People are like lights. Some are colored lights and draw attention to themselves. Others are clear lights. They shine on people in around them.

~ Steve Goodier

holding the eveningtremblingly close to mei weepinto the sun lettingthe burdenof hopelift off my chesti realizethis is what it meansto be free.

~ Sanober Khan

To the one who views from a larger perspective....everything is a blessing.

~ Vivian Amis

I am light. I am not my age, I am not my race; my soul inside is all light. I am light.

~ India Arie

A path toward Truth is darkness; a journey through the woods, at night, blindfolded. Find 'Self' & you can find Light with eyes closed.

~ Ace Antonio Hall

A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don't want to see. If we refuse to face our shadow, it will project itself on someone else so we have no choice but to engage.

~ Terry Tempest Williams

We do not see the world through a window, but through a mirror. Everything we discern is comparatively held to the vision with which we see ourselves.

~ Leeann Taylor

The ability to find sparks may be buried so deep in you that you stop believing there's a God. Until someone comes along, with so much light in her that you can't help but see your own, and when you're together,that light grows even brighter.

~ Jodi Picoult

Faith for Jesus is the opposite of anxiety. If you are anxious, if you are trying to control everything, if you are worried about many things, you don’t have faith, according to Jesus. You do not trust that God is good and on your side. You’re trying to do it all yourself, lift yourself up by your own bootstraps.

~ Richard Rohr

How can you trust only yourself when your eyes can blind you, your ears deceive you, when you speak that which you don’t mean, and do that which you planned against?

~ Kyle Schmalenberg