Self Quotes

Each time we choose to step down for others that is a form of death to self.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Consciousness is the only home of which we know.

~ Emily Dickinson

If I so much as dare to intimately probe the reflection I see in the mirror, I am filled with the tormenting fear that I might be repulsed. God invites us to boldly probe the reflection in the mirror so that we might be released.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

For life, too, is only an instant,Only the dissolving of ourselvesIn the selves of all othersAs if bestowing a gift –

~ Boris Pasternak

When you are still fragmentated, lacking certainty — what difference does it make what your decisions are?

~ Idries Shah

The more you die to self on daily basis, the more you enjoy life.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Be nice to yourself, for you deserve everything that you want!

~ Anuranjita Kumar

for meobedience to another is the decayof self

~ Charles Bukowski

A man’s spirit is his self. That entity which is his consciousness. To think, to feel, to judge, to act are functions of the ego.

~ Ayn Rand

Keep your ideals with you and seek help from them. These are useless for me. Your shoe do not fit mine. I am done with the exhibitionist of yours. You are professing of something that is even worthless for you. You are so insecure and coward to accept the truth. Dnt make me as miserable as you are. Let me explore myself. Let me unlearn the lie this world has given to me . Let me just undo al the data which is being engraved on my mind. Let me be a child who is just born.

~ Adeel Bin Ahmed

We only betray ourselves. No one is betrayed except by himself. One way to betray yourself is to try to be too many people at once.How many people should a person try to be in your opinion?One at the most. Most people don't even succeed in that.

~ Macdonald Harris

Men have been taught that the ego is the synonym of evil, and selflessness the ideal of virtue. But the creator is the egotist in the absolute sense, and the selfless man is the one who does not think, feel, judge or act. These are functions of the self.

~ Ayn Rand

At some point I hope to have grown sufficiently in both stature and wisdom to understand that I cannot deliver myself from myself, and that God alone can save me from me.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

In Hindu parlance he had 'realised the Self'; that is to say, he had realised by direct experience that nothing existed apart from an indivisible and universal consciousness which was experienced in its unmanifest form as beingness or awareness and in its manifest form as the appearance of the universe.

~ David Godman

I’m a bit-part actor in my own life

~ Johnny Rich

If, to him, love was a celebration of one’s self and of existence—then, to the self-haters and life-haters, the pursuit of destruction was the only form and equivalent of love.

~ Ayn Rand

Love worth giving is love perfected on ourselves.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

He was himself, and he knew what he had been.

~ John Williams

In the rare air of that altitude he forgot he was he. One way or another that was the aim of life. Shamans flew outside the self in ecstasy. Other people found love, or causes.

~ Bryn Hammond

Is God satisfied with you or could it be that God looks at you and fails to see a man, only a bunch of flesh Full of self, and missing out on the purpose for his or her creation? What does God see, think and feel when he looks at you?

~ Sunday Adelaja

We only betray ourselves.

~ Macdonald Harris

When I wake from my nightmaresI’m more afraid of the breath in my lungs than whatever might be chasing me.

~ Miriam Joy

When you realise you are just as ridiculous & just as #special as everyone else, you love them all.

~ Jay Woodman

..it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. It is the unsacrificed self that we must respect in man above all.

~ Ayn Rand

This is me today, but take heed; it is not the same me as yesterday, and it will not be the same me tomorrow.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Your value does not decrease based on someone's inability to see your worth.

~ Anonymous

This is the starting point, Daisy had said. It's the symbol for self. Its essence is water. Your relationship with yourself is primary, like water you must be willing to change. The Rune means to me that I must strive to live the ordinary life in a non-ordinary way. This is what it says in The Book of Runes. Take heart, in the spirit you are always beginning.

~ Denny Taylor

An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face.

~ George Orwell

It occurred to Rosie that she couldn't hide either, even though the truth had been hidden from her. Now she was out from the shadows, out in the open for the first time in her life, standing in the harsh light.

~ Denny Taylor

She was a blank, a wordless being. She was a hole in the universe.

~ Jessica Khoury

We are free to live the life we have imagined, not the life imagined for us.

~ Chris Matakas

See the Divinity in others and you will find it within yourself.

~ Ka Chinery

It is in community where we find our very selves.

~ Chris Matakas

when you expect something from your self and your own self disappoints you.... this is what i call a real disappointment . The worst disappointments comes from in-within.

~ Sameh Elsayed

When an individual appreciates that he alone is responsible for the content and coherence of his person, an influx like eros becomes a concrete personal threat. So in the lyric poets, love is something that assaults or invades the body of the lover to wrest control of it from him, a personal struggle of will and physique between the god and his victim. The poets describe this struggle from within a consciousness – perhaps new in the world – of the body as a unity of limbs, senses and self, amazed at its own vulnerability.

~ Anne Carson

There, sitting cross-legged on the floor, he stared absently at his legs. They began to look strange. They no longer seemed to grow from his trunk at all, but rather, completely unconnected, they sprawled rudely before him. When he got this far, he realized something he had never noticed before—that his legs were unbearably hideous. With hair growing unevenly and blue streaks running rampant, they were terribly strange creatures.

~ Sōseki Natsume

I keep on dreaming, but to find freedom, one must first search inwards.

~ Fennel Hudson

The greatest victory a person can have is the victory over himself.

~ Sunday Adelaja

To talk of humans as 'transcendent' is not to ascribe to them spiritual properties. It is, rather, to recognize that as subjects we have the ability to transform our selves, our natures, our world—an ability denied to any other physical being.

~ Kenan Malik

Time alone helps us to remember who we are.

~ Fennel Hudson