Self Quotes

You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.

~ Ed Harris

She filled herself entirely with the molten dark.

~ Gertrud Kolmar

Who you are is too vast to be captured by the reflection of a mirror, classified by the state of your attitude, or categorized by the opinions of others. Therefore, if any of these are defining you, you have yet to be defined.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

...the other's self, that enormous hulking thing each possessed, that a self of course is not inconsequential. p124

~ Jane Hamilton

Look for love in the most likely places, the places you love to visit and like to stay on for some more time. Just be your natural self- the real you- and believe me love will come waltzing in to the tune of your favourite song.

~ Latika Teotia

The one who loves you has the right to tick you off, to correct you when you go wrong and admonish you when you repeat.

~ Latika Teotia

Is there any escaping the junkshop of the self?

~ Ali Smith

If you are free to be yourself, You would love to be yourself.

~ Mahrukh

Make an attempt to know yourself out of your comfort zone, you will see how how amazing you are.

~ Mahrukh

Love yourself for who you are, you worth it.

~ Mahrukh

Elliott was disarmingly bright, according to everyone who knew him, an avid reader of Dostoevsky, Kafka, Beckett, Stendhal, Freud, the Buddha, all of whom destabilized notions of identity. I think he knew how little we know about who we are. The idea comes through in lyrics. “I don’t know who I am,” he says simply; at times he wishes he were no one. He’s a stickman shooting blanks at emptiness, living with “one dimension dead.” He’s an invisible man with a see-through mind. He’s a junkyard full of false starts. He’s a ghost-writer, feeling hollow.

~ William Todd Schultz

The Illusory SelfI am composed of body and soul, I seem to have mind, reason, sense, yet I find none of them my own. For where was my body prior to my birth, and whither will it go when I have departed? Where are the various states produced by the life stages of an illusory self? Where is the newborn babe, the child, the boy, the pubescent, the stripling, the bearded youth, the lad, the full-grown man? Whence came the soul, whither will it go, how long will it be our mate? Can we tell its essential nature? When did we acquire it? Prior to our birth? But we were not then in existence. What of it after death? But then we who are embodied, compounds endowed with quality, shall be no more, but shall hasten to our rebirth, to be with the unbodied, without composition and without quality. But now, inasmuch as we are alive, we are the dominated rather than the rulers, known rather than knowing. The soul knows us, though unknown by us, and imposes commands we are obliged to obey as wervants their mistress. And when it will, it will transact its divorce in court and depart, leaving our home desolate of life. If we press it to remain, it will dissolve our relationship. So subtle is its nature that it furnishes no handle to the body.

~ Philo Of Alexandria

One of the things about Ike that makes him so indisputably a hero is that he doesn't leave his own contradictions to the effete disputations of armchair scholars. He grapples with them himself, in his own lifetime.

~ Mark Leyner

The self can watch itself becoming lazy, or non-watchful; this is an asset that can make both for humor and profound well-being.

~ Eli Siegel

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do. Just be bold, be brave enough to be your true self. In short, be yourself, but always your better self.

~ Usman Aman

For the broken hearts,I promise it gets better.I promise that the minutes and hours will go by faster and that the ache in your chest will stop.I promise that the day you can forgive and realize that you don't have to feel this way will come.I promise you that right now, no matter what age you are, it will hurt. But pain is temporary.I promise that months or even years from now you'll look back and realize how silly you're acting. Although it doesn't feel silly.I promise that your relationship with them may or may not bloom into at least a friendship.I promise it'll stop hurting. Give it time, give yourself time to be an individual again. Find the confidence to do things on your own. Reconnect with the friends you pushed away. Form a better self. Be selfish. Stop thinking about their opinion.xoxoxo, M

~ Emily Trunko

My dear friends, from the devil's standpoint there is not the slightest difference between being puffed up with pride in yourself or spending the whole of your time condemning yourself. Either way the devil is very well-pleased. Any concentration upon self in any shape or form is of the devil.

~ Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Seek thy sacred self.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Our fundamental tactic of self-protection, self-control, and self-definition is not spinning webs or building dams, but telling stories, and more particularly connecting and controlling the story we tell others - and ourselves - about who we are.

~ Daniel C. Dennett

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.

~ Marissa Meyer

There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I am such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.

~ L.m. Montgomery

What it is,” she sighed, “to have to choose between self and security.

~ Tsitsi Dangarembga

There is a widespread philosophical tendency towards the view which tells us that Man is the measure of all things, that truth is man-made, that space and time and the world of universals are properties of the mind, and that, if there be anything not created by the mind, it is unknowable and of no account for us. This view, if our previous discussions were correct, is untrue; but in addition to being untrue, it has the effect of robbing philosophic contemplation of all that gives it value, since it fetters contemplation to Self. What it calls knowledge is not a union with the not-Self, but a set of prejudices, habits, and desires, making an impenetrable veil between us and the world beyond. The man who finds pleasure in such a theory of knowledge is like a man who never leaves the domestic circle for fear his word might not be law.

~ Bertrand Russell

Why should I take my clothes off (...) when there are, already, so many other woman doing it for me?

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

We all get to discover who we really are at some point, and when we do, it can be quite unsettling.

~ Ted Dekker

These ideas fit the experience of these Japanese women who often talked about searching for or trying to develop self (jibun). Cultivating or polishing self by doing tea ceremony or being a good mother, for example, had a good connotation for the Japanese because it meant that you were trying to go beyond your narrow self and connect self with the larger world beyond social norms. But developing self in the new way these women used it meant to develop self according to just what you want to do or in a way that enhances your own possibilities in the world. Would others see choosing a life for self as selfish? These women had to maintain some ambiguity because they were wandering into dangerous territory when they wanted to travel just to enjoy themselves, or keep working and not marry. In a society that honored the cultivation of a larger self, would they themselves someday suffer for having chosen the self-centered way?

~ Nancy Ross Rosenberger

The thing that I’m most likely to collapse under is not the weight of the stresses that stand around me, but the ego that sits within me.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sometimes one must become something one fears or loathes in order for the greater self to survive.

~ Alex Lamb

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.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

Time alone can help us to look inward, to fish for things that others can’t see.

~ Fennel Hudson

There is a phase of melancholy—a phase that has sloughed all urgency—that seems to me always a revelation of that ancient, familiar thing, my true self. If there is anything in a person with which one may be in love, surely it can only ever be the self that such melancholy reveals. There are potent and austere traditions that teach us a true self that has no qualities, no atmosphere, and which thus could never be revealed by melancholia; some of these traditions maintain, in a tone that suggests resistance is folly, that there is no self at all. But such traditions are not native to my soul, and within my life they are new, though they are older than me in history. For me, the self revealed by melancholy is older and thus truer.

~ Quentin S. Crisp

Khuda tujhe kisi toofaan se aashna karde,Ke tere behr ki maujon men iztiraab naheenMay God grant you a storm! The voyage of your life is on too placid an ocean…

~ Muhammad Iqbal

Khird-Mandon Se Kya Puchon Ke Meri Ibtida Kya HaiKe Main Iss Fikar Mein Rehta Hun, Meri Intiha Kya HaiWhat should I ask the sages about my origin:I am always wanting to know my goal.

~ Muhammad Iqbal

Experience has taught me that there are some situations in which it's better to keep quiet. That is, I tried to keep quiet. Life gives me good advice, but sometimes I refuse to take it.

~ Etgar Keret

I love widely and deeply, the Naive sense of Primitivism I manage to project in my Art. It always gives me a sense that it is not developed or derived from anything else, and it is unaffected by objective reasoning. Very similar to my nomadic life.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

It’s time to accept that I am average, and to stop making this acceptance of my averageness into a bereavement.

~ Sara Baume

Me, when it comes to religion, I have no God. When I'm cool, I don't need anyone, and when I'm feeling shitty and this big empty hole opens up inside me, I just know there's never been a god that could fill it and there never will be.

~ Etgar Keret

Now, four years out of high school, I'm in an environment where people appreciate personality over appearance, and that makes me happy.

~ Connor Franta

Religion is the Self revealing secrets of the Self to the Self.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Your first thought is what you've been conditioned to think, what you think next defines who you are.

~ Anonymous