Self Quotes

Byron: The luxuries of this place have made me soft.The metal point's gone from my pen, there's nothing left but the feather.Gutman:That may be true.But what can you do about it?Byron:Make a departure.Gutman:From yourself?Byron:From my present self to myself as I used to be!Gutman:That's the furthest departure a man could make!

~ Tennessee Williams

What would you say to yourself if you could actually meet a younger you?

~ Doug Dillon

Be yourself, be yourself.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Only you can change your own world. No one else.

~ Nina Hrusa

We suddenly arrived in this very lost and strange city. Somewhere in the middle of the mountains. We didn't know where we are. We were just heading back to the sea. When we walked trough the forgotten city in silence, something inside us changed. We lost a bit of ourselves too and gained space for something new.

~ Nina Hrusa

No knowledge about self is self-slavery!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I have a headache. If only I had a crown to put on!

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Not a believer in the mosque am I,Nor a disbeliever with his rites am I.I am not the pure amongst the impure,I am neither Moses nor Pharaoh.Bulleh, I know not who I am.Not in the holy books am I,Nor do I dwell in bhang or wine,Nor do I live in a drunken haze,Nor in sleep or waking known.Bulleh, I know not who I am.Not in happiness or in sorrow am I found.I am neither pure nor mired in filthy ground.Not of water nor of land,Nor am I in air or fire to be found.Bulleh, I know not who I am.Not an Arab nor Lahori,Not a Hindi or Nagouri,Nor a Muslim or Peshawari,Not a Buddhist or a Christian.Bulleh, I know not who I am.Secrets of religion have I not unravelled,I am not of Eve and Adam.Neither still nor moving on,I have not chosen my own name!Bulleh, I know not who I am.From first to last, I searched myself.None other did I succeed in knowing.Not some great thinker am I.Who is standing in my shoes, alone?Bulleh, I know not who I am.

~ Bulleh Shah

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

~ Thomas Paine

The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.

~ Marguerite Yourcenar

It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.

~ Joseph Conrad

My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.

~ Muhammad Ali

To 'know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment.

~ L. Frank Baum

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge-that is everywhere, that is Atman, that is in me and you and in every creature, and I am beginning to believe that this knowledge has no worse enemy than the man of knowledge, than learning.

~ Hermann Hesse

The less you know, the more you will be knownThe less you want, the more you will haveThe less you are, the more you will be

~ Vivian Amis

Then the edge asserts itself. You are not a god. You are not that enlarged self. Indeed, you are not even a whole self, as you now see. Your new knowledge of possibilities is also a knowledge of what is lacking in the actual.

~ Anne Carson

That which comes forth, is present and cautions at all times is called ‘Gnan’ (Eternal knowledge). That indeed is the Soul [Our True Self]. The Soul is not separate from the Knowledge.

~ Dada Bhagwan

There are two aspects to this world; even though it is fickle, it is within principle. Through the medium of the five senses and intellectual knowledge, it appears fickle and through ‘Gnan’ (Real Knowledge) it appears to be within principle.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Where there is lack of ‘Gnan’ (Knowledge and experience of the Self; real Knowledge) there is worldly existence and where there is ‘Gnan’ (Real Knowledge), there is no worldly existence.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Gnan’ [True Knowledge, Knowledge of one’s own self], is freedom itself. It keeps one in Moksha [liberated state] and prevents [karmic] bondage.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Know thy self, and the world will be thy oyster!

~ Abhijit Naskar

i know more than i know and must learn it from myself

~ Marilynne Robinson

Once you die, that’s it – game over. Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self.

~ Abhijit Naskar

In the current era, to take adjustments in worldly interactions is knowledge (Gnan). One is to adjust to ‘disadjustments'.

~ Dada Bhagwan

One who knows what he or she knows as well as what he or she does not know is a genius.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Wisdom begins in knowing the self.

~ Abhijit Naskar

He had seen the whole Universe stretching to infinity around him—everything. And with it had come the clear and extraordinary knowledge that he was the most important thing in it. Having a conceited ego is one thing. Actually being told by a machine is another.

~ Douglas Adams

Know the One - the Self, and you'll know the All.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.

~ Amit Kalantri

God has been pushed aside by the non-Self complex. Vibrations have arisen from vibrations. ‘We’ now give you the Knowledge of how to stop the vibrations.

~ Dada Bhagwan

What is the body complex (pudgal)? It is influx and outflow (puran-galan); it is credit and debit. And if you attain knowledge of the Soul, the Self, then you will attain Moksha (liberation).

~ Dada Bhagwan

Circumstances can change through worldly knowledge (ignorance of the self, the Soul) and also through (true) knowledge (realization of the self). With ignorance, circumstances will bring entanglements and with (true) knowledge, circumstances will bring solutions. (True) Knowledge itself changes circumstances. Is God likely to come down and do so?

~ Dada Bhagwan

In scriptures, there is knowledge about the different methods; the knowledge about the goal [to attain Pure Soul] is not there. ‘Gnani’ has the knowledge about the goal [to attain Pure Soul]. Knowledge about the goal, which is the Soul, is obtained as a result of the ‘Gnani’s’ grace.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Knowledge of all living beings of the entire world is in only one Soul. But the knowledge that sees the ego and everything, as objects to be known (gneya); only that knowledge is called as the ‘Knowledge’. However, that is partial Knowledge but only from that moment it is regarded as real applied focused awareness. Where there is Knowledge, the focused applied awareness may be partial or complete.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Complete focused applied awareness of the Soul (shuddha upayog) is considered absolute Knowledge (keval gnan).

~ Dada Bhagwan

Infinite knowledge, infinite vision, infinite energy of the Soul is in the same state even today. The Soul has never been a sinner. The Soul is absolutely pure.

~ Dada Bhagwan

For the most part, people strenuously resist any redefinition of morality, because it shakes them to the very core of their being to think that in pursuing virtue they may have been feeding vice, or in fighting vice they may have in fact been fighting virtue.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Only Give up,When Your Hearts Gives up.(Don't Give up, till your Last Breath)

~ Fahad Rashiq

Marriage is the union of two 'I's to form a 'V'. Both 'I's have to tilt equally to make a good 'V'. 'I's standing tall can never make a 'V'.

~ Ashok Kallarakkal