Self Quotes

The shortest short-term investment is to serve ourselves.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If I don’t know who I am apart from everyone else, I probably need to spend some time apart from everyone else.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We are always immeasurably bigger than the little person we’ve too often doomed ourselves to be.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

people's hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what's at the bottom. All you can do is guess from what comes floating to the surface every once in a while

~ Haruki Murakami

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, only you.

~ Carol Grace

Meanwhile, the self can stand in the way of the Not-Self, interfering with the free flow of spiritual grace, this maintaining the self in a state of blindness, and also with the flow of animal grace, which leads to the impairment of natural functions and, in the long run, of the slower processes called structure. For each individual human being, the main practical problems are these: How can I prevent my ego from eclipsing the inner light, synteresis, scintilla animae, and so perpetuating the state of unregenerate illusion and blindness? And these practical problems remain unchallenged, even if we abandon the notion of an entelechy or physiological intelligencer, of an atman or pneuma and think, instead, in terms [of] systems...

~ Aldous Huxley

Enlightenment is nothing but to experience your own mind. The experience of the self too is experiencing the intrinsic nature of the mind.

~ Roshan Sharma

We all must pay the price to be our genuine selves.

~ Ethel Russell

Everybody knows deep down that life is as much about the things that do not happen as the things that do and that's not something that ought to be glossed over or denied because without frustration there would hardly be any need to daydream. And daydreams return me to my original sense of things and I luxuriate in these fervid primary visions until I am entirely my unalloyed self again. So even though it sometimes feels as if one could just about die from disappointment I must concede that in fact in a rather perverse way it is precisely those things I did not get that are keeping me alive.

~ Claire-Louise Bennett

To save myself I must face myself, which may be the hardest of all things to face.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Now is the time to commit to your SELF that there will be no playing small. You have gifts to give unto the world - and a difference to make.

~ Kami Guildner

Conquer self before you desire to defeat others.

~ Aditya Ajmera

Stop looking outside or at others for that which you seek of yourself.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

The best thinking says 'the self' is a fiction (I have a piece about that), yet it's a fiction that we all believe, our most intimate experience. Maybe it's nothing more than our tendency to repeat. Maybe we repeat because when we do, we recognize the behavior and the familiarity is comforting. So the self is just the consolation of our tendencies.

~ Richard Greenberg

I do not know which of us has written this page.

~ Jorge Luis Borges

Yes, the same God who created all the universes created you as a one-of-a-kind. He knows you and loves you and commands you to love yourself.

~ Toni Sorenson

I do not wish to talk about myself because I hold very deeply the belief that what is important is the work, not the person.

~ Remedios Varo

I'd rather be authentic than true.

~ Kevin Mcpherson Eckhoff

What gets scary is when your self-worth is tied up in what strangers think of you.

~ Emma Watson

The most difficult journey any of us ever take in our adulthood is the return to our parents’ house. A home visit makes us recall all of the childhood events that formed us. Returning home reacquaints us with family members and our former self.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Despise your heart. I wanted to. I didn't want to grieve anymore, to feel loss or guilt, or worry. I wanted to be hard, calculating. I wanted to be fearless.

~ Leigh Bardugo

I burn a hole through everything I stare, and it happens when I stand in front of the mirror too.

~ Akshay Vasu

But there was in the air that kind of distortion that bent you a little; it caused your usual self to grow slippery, to wander off and shop, to get blurry, bleed, bevel with possibility.

~ Lorrie Moore

Always remember it's never about the other, the whole effort is to find your true self 'through' the other. In fact whenever your focus shifts from YOU to the other, there is bondage which will result in pain and anguish. The other is just a medium through which you can reach your interiority. Never be obsessed for them, for that would lead to a self invited hell.

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it.

~ G.k. Chesterton

I felt stifled. Everything I looked at reminded me of myself.

~ Ian Mcewan

The first and most enemy that we have are ourselves.

~ Abdulsalam Unshur

Don't let your emotions get the best of you and blind you from the truth.

~ Seohyun

İf you identify yourself (your Self) with your feeling, perception, mental image of your body, consciousness (subjective awareness), in short, what is going inside your brain, it would mean that your self doesn’t exist, because it cannot control none of them. All of them are automatically controlled by your brain but not by your self. None of them are permanent, all are mutable. You cannot determine what to feel or how to perceive, your brain automatically does it for you, you cannot stop the change of your body image because of aging and you cannot control which part of information should be on conscious, which should be on unconscious level of your mind, considering that more than 90% of all information is hidden from your conscious mind and you are simply not aware what is going inside your brain. That is why it is said that you are merely a bio-social robot without any self being capable of taking control of anything in your life. Your self can control almost nothing.

~ Elmar Hussein

Control your anger, be calm.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We are alive in all our layers of self and selflessness - individuals becoming one.

~ Jay Woodman

It’s a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.

~ Emma Watson

They thought they were so different, Flame and Ice. Enemies always do. The Soviets and the West, they were the same. They looked at each other and saw monsters; they looked at themselves and saw men. But Jordan stood on the outside and knew them each for both monsters and men, the good and the bad bleeding together. They were only villains and heroes in their own stories.

~ Cassandra Rose Clarke

The leading research in the adverse human health effects of electromagnetic radiation is not being done by well funded governments or corporations, it is coming from a few self funded independent researchers.

~ Steven Magee

I always talk about love but I’ve seen a life where I can live without it, where I can eat with my hands, make the whole bed, leave the light on for myself.

~ Caitlyn Siehl

At thirty a man steps out of the darkness and wasteland of preparation into active life it is the time to show oneself, the time of fulfillment.

~ Thomas Mann

Go with your bad self.

~ Stephen King

Someone said it better than that; be true unto yourself. Self, right? No-one else. If everyone was true unto his or her self there might even be a chance of something better for us all.

~ Bryan Islip

One has to get rid of the self. Once the self is thrown away, nothing is lacking. You start overflowing and blossoms start falling on you.

~ Osho

When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image. I think this protagonist, this self, often recognizes that it is a fictional construct, but it also recognizes that thinking of itself as such might cause it to disintegrate.

~ Mohsin Hamid