Self Quotes

I wash off the night in the water, my scrapes and aches numbed by the sea. My bones have become boughs, all scarred knees and gnarled kuckles. None of us are the same person we once were, since the human body replaces itself every seven years; there have been at least six different mes.

~ Philip Hoare

When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best decision, to make an incrediable self-image is the best.

~ Deyth Banger

Practice your self what you preach. ~ Titus Maccius Plautus~ When we offer guidance to someone we can hear the pearls of wisdom we're sharing with our self. Where we see room for improvement in someone else, we see room for improvement in our self. The direction we tell others to go may be the direction we most want to go. When we understand and appreciate that we are an expression of the perfection of the universe, we become speechless with unconditional LOVE

~ Angie Karan

When you fall in love, do not fall out of yourself.

~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen

But who is this self that is to be renounced and to have no benefit? It seems that *you* yourself are supposed to be it. And for whose benefit is unselfish self-renunciation recommended to you? Again, for *your* benefit and behoof, only through that unselfishness you are procuring your true benefit. You are to benefit *yourself*, and yet you are not to seek *your* benefit

~ Max Stirner

To discover the exact location of a 'thing' is a simple matter of factual research. To discover the exact location of a person: where to locate the self?

~ Nadine Gordimer

It is human, to want to feel connected with others, to strive for a sense of belonging.Yet the ultimate hack is to belong with yourself.Once you belong within,You belong with all.

~ Reshan Pillai

Sometimes we fail to see what others see and emphasise on what they lack to see. The I of a different eye.

~ Goitsemang Mvula

Here we come upon the old, old craze of the world, which has not yet learned to do without clericalism--that to live and work *for an idea*is man's calling, and according to the faithfulness its fulfilment his *human worth* is measured

~ Max Stirner

Sometimes in your life you will go on a journey. It will be the longest journey you have ever taken. It is the journey to find yourself.

~ Katharine Sharp

The greatest achievement is self awareness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be still my soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I fear the many faces, many personalities in me. Sometimes I fail to understand my self and become deceived by my various selves.

~ Ama H. Vanniarachchy

Some people need significance more than they need another person. Change will only happen in a relationship when you realize it is not the person, but the emotion you desire.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes people don't want to look back because they are afraid of facing the truth. But sometimes, facing the truth we're afraid of is what makes us who we're really supposed to be.

~ Nancy J. Cavanaugh

Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.

~ Fernando Pessoa

Seek the spirituality of your soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Self importance is self pride.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

At times we convince ourselves, we have something to lose but in fact, who you are and your being remains intact.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Self is for service.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Self is for sacrifice and service.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Bless someone today, other than yourself

~ Charmaine J. Forde

The dancing Sun the dancing moon the dancing stars and the dancing galaxies are the direct expression of our divine Self.

~ Amit Ray

Once you can communicate with yourself, you'll be able to communicate outwardly with more clarity. The way in is the way out.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

It is, of course, we who house poems as much as their words, and we ourselves must be the locus of poetry's depth of newness. Still, the permeability seems to travel both ways: a changed self will find new meanings in a good poem, but a good poem also changes the shape of the self.

~ Jane Hirshfield

Much self-condemnation, thus, is a cloak for arrogance. Those who think they overcome pride by condemning themselves could well ponder Spinoza's remark, 'One who despises himself is the nearest to a proud man'. In ancient Athens, when a politician was trying to get the votes of the working class by appearing very humble in a tattered coat with big holes in it, Socrates unmasked his hypocrisy by exclaiming, 'Your vanity shows forth from every whole in your coat'.

~ Rollo May

It’s as close to true freedom as I have come. Not freedom of, but freedom from; freedom from the debris of life that piles up and forces us to dig and dig for our original self, who we were once upon a time, innocent and wonderfully naïve, as authentically pure as a human can be.

~ Dan Groat

I still have a tendency to sit back and wait out the bad things that try and take over my life.

~ Dean Bakopoulos

The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light will not let me be.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

It took something massive to shatter a Mimic endo-skeleton in one hit. That it could kill me in the process was beside the point.

~ Hiroshi Sakurazaka

And if I forget how many times I have been here, and in how many shapes, this forgetting is the necessary interval of darkness between every pulsation of light. I return in every baby born.

~ Alan W. Watts

If you have control over yourself, you have no desire to control others.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

Why should anyone be so grateful for acceptance unless he doubts that he is acceptable, and why should a young, educated and successful couple have such doubts, if not due to the fact that they cannot accept themselves because they are not themselves.

~ Erich Fromm

Indeed, with the experience of self disappears the experience of identity - and when this happens, man could become insane if he did not save himself by acquiring a secondary sense of self; he does that by experiencing himself as being approved of, worthwhile, successful, useful - briefly, as a salable commodity which is he because he is looked upon by others as an entity, not unique but fitting into one of the current patterns.

~ Erich Fromm

If you want to travel on the path of moksha (ultimate liberation), ‘You’ (the Self) do not have to ‘do’ anything. And if you want to wander in the worldly life, ‘You’ have to ‘do’ everything.

~ Dada Bhagwan

A further, albeit more complex, possibility is that our conscious selves might suffer from characteristic uncertainty about our true values, and gather information about them from choices we make (the Jamesian: How do I know what I like until I see what I pick).

~ Tali Sharot

Purify thy sacred soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

As is so often the way, what we have suppressed and overlooked issomething startlingly obvious. The difficulty is that it is so obvious andbasic that one can hardly find the words for it. The Germans call it aHintergedanke, an apprehension lying tacitly in the back of our mindswhich we cannot easily admit, even to ourselves. The sensation of I asa lonely and isolated center of being is so powerful andcommonsensical, and so fundamental to our modes of speech andthought, to our laws and social institutions, that we cannot experienceselfhood except as something superficial in the scheme of the universe. Iseem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time—arare, complicated, and all-too-delicate organism on the fringe ofbiological evolution, where the wave of life bursts into individual,sparkling, and multicolored drops that gleam for a moment only tovanish forever. Under such conditioning it seems impossible and evenabsurd to realize that myself does not reside in the drop alone, but in thewhole surge of energy which ranges from the galaxies to the nuclearfields in my body. At this level of existence I am immeasurably old;my forms are infinite and their comings and goings are simply thepulses or vibrations of a single and eternal flow of energy.

~ Alan W. Watts

The sin of self is a deadly sin.

~ Billy Graham

And I went into the new year loving myself a little less, but a little more where it actually mattered.

~ Dominic Riccitello