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A newcomer to a city should first look for a suitable room for resting at night. After securing the room and keeping the luggage there, he or she may go out for sightseeing. Otherwise it'll be a lot of suffering to find a place to rest in the darkness of the night. Similarly, upon securing the eternal resting place in Self, one can freely roam around doing his or her daily works.
— Abhijit Naskar
Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can’t hear it.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
You mustn't force images on things.Only gods were what you should expect perfection from.You mustn't demand an ideal from anyone.That is weakness. It is an evil that must be hated. It is negligence that must be punished. It spoils not only yourself, but those around you.You are allowed to be disappointed with only yourself. You should hurt only yourself. Hate yourself for not following your ideal.The only one you must not forgive is yourself.
— Wataru Watari
Who was the real me? I can only repeat: I was a man of many faces.At meetings I was earnest, enthusiastic, and committed; among friends, unconstrained and given to teasing; with Marketa, cynical and fitfully witty; and alone (and thinking of Marketa), unsure of myself and as agitated as a schoolboy.Was the last face the real one?No. They were all real: I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn’t know who I was or wanted to be. (I was frightened by the differences between one face and the next; none of them seemed to fit me properly, and I groped my way clumsily among them.)
— Milan Kundera, The Joke
one of the central themes associated with developing a sense of authenticity involves inventing plausible narratives of self. For instance, Charles Taylor (1992) argues that the modern desire for authenticity is often prompted by a feeling that our life is shattered and it is difficult, if not impossible, to piece our life together in a meaningful way. He suggests that reclaiming authenticity would entail the provision of a space where we can once again craft coherent narratives that bind our life together.
— André Spicer, Guilty lives: The authenticity trap at work
I thought of the pieces of me I'd left behind, a piece here, a piece there, scattered like bread crumbs. How much of me was left?
— Jennifer Niven, American Blonde
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, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
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, Pond
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, Firedancer: Your Spiral Journey to a Life of Passion and Purpose
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, Rules for Others to Live By: Comments and Self-Contradictions
I do not know which of us has written this page.
— Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths:  Selected Stories and Other Writings
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, Aligned By Christ
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, their biography
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, Dead Toad Scrolls
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, Ruin and Rising
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 Cement Garden
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, Cover the Silence
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, Joseph and His Brothers
Go with your bad self.
— Stephen King, Finders Keepers
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, Like an Angel Sings
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, And The Flowers Showered Discourses On Zen
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
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
Be yourself, And take control of your own destiny. There is nothing more disgraceful in life, Than living someone else’s life.
— Mouloud Benzadi
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, The Ego and Its Own
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, The Pickup
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, The Ego and Its Own
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, Just Like Me
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, The Education of the Stoic
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, Beautify your Breath - Beautify your Life
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, The Art of Communicating
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, Man's Search for Himself
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, An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy
I still have a tendency to sit back and wait out the bad things that try and take over my life.
— Dean Bakopoulos, Please Don't Come Back from the Moon
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, All You Need Is Kill 1
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, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
If you have control over yourself, you have no desire to control others.
— Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
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, The Sane Society
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, Neuroscience of Preference and Choice: Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms
Purify thy sacred soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
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, Billy Graham in Quotes
And I went into the new year loving myself a little less, but a little more where it actually mattered.
— Dominic Riccitello
... nothing that happened could ever hurt the most important part of her, nothing that happened outside herself could ever make her less than what God had meant for her to be.
— Klavan
The things she said seemed to have very little relation to the last thing she had said a minute before. She was the sort of person, Tommy thought, who might know a great deal more than she chose to reveal.
— Agatha Christie, By the Pricking of My Thumbs
An individual, a thing apart from its environment, and apart from all things in that environment; an individual was a type of thing for which symbols were inadequate, and so names were invented . I am invented. I am not a round warm blue room. I am someone in that room; I am—
— Samuel R. Delany, Babel-17
Dance with your sacred rhythm.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
To enter your true self,check your ego at the door.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
You are a sacred-being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Darkness is a knife that peels away the rind of what you think you know about yourself. The shades of your pretenses, the tones of your illusions, the layers of deception that glaze your life into the colors that tint your world–all mean nothing in the darkness. No one can see them, not even you.Darkness hides everything except who you really are
— Matthew Woodring Stover
If you keep finding yourself in the same situations, the Universe is prompting you to confront self! YOU are the common denominator.
— Sanjo Jendayi
You are precious and special possession of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
it feels nice to know about things and about oneself.
— Aporva Kala, Alchemist of the East
You'll never understand me as long as you're looking at me through society's lenses.
— Robert Tew
Egotism fears its own self.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
Be good to yourself.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Normality does not exist. There is no such a thing as normal. The social norms that guide most people are not always normal for everyone. Behaviours and actions that are abnormal for most people may be considered normal for others, so therefore normality does not exist. Stay true to yourself; never be ashamed of doing what feels right to you at any giving moment, decide what feels right to you and do it. Don’t be normal, be yourself.
— Ray Mancini, Zen, Meditation & the Art of Shooting: Performance Edge - Sports Edition
X-sacred.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Who am I, when all I’ve ever believed myself to be, is fading before my very eyes?Am I still me, or just a shadow of what I used to be?Was I just an illusion that lived only in my head?Did I paint myself as something more than I really am?And with all these changes in my life… What will be left of the woman who dreamed her dreams?When all the colors that she wrapped herself with… are slowly being stripped away…Copyright © Eeva Lancaster
— Eeva Lancaster
It was something he had always done - moved apart, so he could be alone and think things or a little.
— Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
Some of the pain released, and love filled the cleared space, uniting, magnetizing more self-love to it.
— Colleen Chen, Dysmorphic Kingdom
Don't expect anything except yourself.
— Goitsemang Mvula
There's more than one way to be a person. Actually, there are more than two or three ways. You'd think that was obvious, but I find that often it is not. The world is essentially a collection of teams. Life is a process of deciding which ones we're going to join.
— Meghan Daum
Righteousness gives strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Solitude is the spirituality of the soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The biggest and loveliest miracle of today is you yourself!
— Sima Mittal
The problem with holiness is that once we look into the face of it we are no longer capable of taking that which is odious and filthy and somehow pretending that it’s translucent and clean. In other words, we have to do one of the most revolting things possible; we have to face ourselves.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
The belief that personality is mysterious and irreducible has no scientific warrant, and is accepted chiefly because it is flattering to our human self esteem.
— Bertrand Russell
I find myself in the moment of solitude.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Great faith, Great spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Grace-divine gives power for spirit of light to exist as a sacred-self.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Never give up on yourself.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Your life is a divine self.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Listen to your instincts
—  you will make the best-choices.
Beware of your thoughts, for they are not YOU!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
To live more for God and others one must die more to self and sin.
— Orrin Woodward
For the only slavery is desire, and he who learns to let go, to climb the wind-swept hills of self-becoming, naked of all possessions and desire, will drink the mountain air of freedom, and find the peace that lies not in the satisfaction but in the controlling of desire.
— Christmas Humphreys
Keep experimenting, your divine self!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Only by externalization, by entering into social relationships, can we develop the interiority of our own person.
— Jurgen Habermas
Hold tight to what is most yourself,Don't squander it, don't let your lifeBe governed by what disturbs you.
— Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri, Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets
Charity: begins at home and remains there. When it goes out, it's because it wants to brag about itself
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
The Devil loves it when we point fingers at Rome/ other Denominations and forget our very church. ''SELF''. while i scrutinize the Pope and his deeds. Let me trim my lamp. let me wash my robe. let me sweep my house being fully ready for my Lord's coming
— Mary Tornyenyor
aphorism 90: I am incorrigible. I would have every object of the universe mechanically predictable but myself.
— Matt Berry, A Human Strategy: Toward a Genuine Spirituality, Second Edition
Do you really know yourself so well or are you making it up?' she asks. Some things I concoct, some I glean from my senses, most I thirst for.
— Erri De Luca, Tre cavalli
On a morning like this, fear is a blue sky emptied of birds.
— Fran Wilde, Updraft
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, Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living
For life, too, is only an instant,Only the dissolving of ourselvesIn the selves of all othersAs if bestowing a gift –
— Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
When you are still fragmentated, lacking certainty — what difference does it make what your decisions are?
— Idries Shah, The Sufis
The more you die to self on daily basis, the more you enjoy life.
— Sunday Adelaja
Life demands death to self
— Sunday Adelaja
Be nice to yourself, for you deserve everything that you want!
— Anuranjita Kumar, Can I have it all?
for meobedience to another is the decayof self
— Charles Bukowski, Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit
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, The Fountainhead
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, The Balloonist
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, The Fountainhead
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, A View from the Front Porch: Encounters with Life and Jesus
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, The Human Script
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, Atlas Shrugged
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, Amgalant Two: Tribal Brawls
A demand on self to add value is a kind of pressure that causes increase
— Sunday Adelaja
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, The Balloonist
When I wake from my nightmaresI’m more afraid of the breath in my lungs than whatever might be chasing me.
— Miriam Joy, Broken Body Fragile Heart
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, The Fountainhead
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, Making Wishes
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, Rosie's Umbrella
An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face.
— George Orwell, Why I Write
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, Rosie's Umbrella
She was a blank, a wordless being. She was a hole in the universe.
— Jessica Khoury, Vitro
We are free to live the life we have imagined, not the life imagined for us.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
See the Divinity in others and you will find it within yourself.
— Ka Chinery, Perceptions from the Photon Frequency: The Ascended Version
It is in community where we find our very selves.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
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, Eros the Bittersweet
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, And Then
I keep on dreaming, but to find freedom, one must first search inwards.
— Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 2
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, A Waterside Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 2
We strive toward the middle, and we run from ourselves.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
I think it is best to know what you are and make peace with it.
— Sarah McCarry
We know ourselves very little. We are not at the center of ourselves, but instead like the Earth in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way in the universe; far out on a distant edge, hearing a little of what is transpiring.
— David Eaglemann
Often when she liked a picture she found that she was liking some part of herself, some part of her that was in accord with the picture
— Jeanette Winterson
The mighty question arises upon us, what is one's own real self? It certainly is not what we think we are and ought to be.
— D.H. Lawrence
Why, isabel? Why are you doing this to yourself? To your 
— Louise O'Neill, Only Ever Yours
If love becomes too painful, then it's time to let that love go and save yourself. You have to keep this in mind because you'll be able to find another love but not another self.
— Robert Tew
I find myself saying briefly and prosaically that it is much more important to be oneself than anything else. Do not dream of influencing other people, I would say, if I knew how to make it sound exalted. Think of things in themselves.
— Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Death changes nothing but the masks that cover our faces.
— Kahlil Gibran, The Garden of The Prophet
If you awaken from this illusion and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death (or shall I say death implies life?), you can feel yourself – not as a stranger in the world, not as something here unprobational, not as something that has arrived here by fluke - but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental.
— Alan W. Watts
Sometimes you need to take a break from everyone and spend time alone, to experience, appreciate and love yourself.
— Robert Tew
You must know everything that God has forbidden you so as to be able to avoid it, for the one who does not recognize evil falls into it.
— ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAlawī al-Ḥaddād
Master Yourself and you master your environment! Such is the nature of wisdom.
— D. Nicole Williams, Change Your Posture! Change Your LIFE!: The Passion Fruit of Purposed Pursuit
I see myself through others eyes and I am made anew.
— Molly Moore
Now, what if Others were encapsulated in Things, in a way that Being towards Things were not ontologically severable, in Heidegger's terms, from Being towards Others? What if the mode of Dasein of Others were to dwell in Things, and so forth? In the same light, then, what if the Thing were a Dublette of the Self, and not what is called the Other? Or more radically still, what if the Self were in some fundamental way becoming a Xerox copy, a duplicate, of the Thing in its assumed essence?
— Avital Ronell
When You Are Just You,People Will Always Bring Themselves.
— Yaganesh Derasari
We are inscrutable even to ourselves, I suppose.
— Jennifer duBois, A Partial History of Lost Causes
I had to learn how to love myself and trust me it’s not the type of thing that happens over night.
— Crystal L. Swain, Bird Dance
Maybe that was one of the problems with these men who lived forever, they'd built up an immunity or resistance to affection. Perhaps because when everyone they knew and loved continued to die, they realized the value of distance, of not losing one's self completely to love.
— Caroline Hanson, Love Is Mortal
The key to failure is, lack of self discipline.
— Sivaprakash Sidhu Sivaprakash G Sivaprakash Gopal, sivaprakash sidhu, sivaprakash
Often, we tend to wrap ourselves around him so tight that we neglect our mission, our purpose, our calling, sometimes our children and even our God
— N. Sophronia Crosby, Five Loves: Stories of Misguided Love, Lust and Betrayal
When I stopped loving, I lost purpose; When I stopped loving myself, I lost myself.
— Pavitraa Parthasarathy
Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still.
— Gretel Ehrlich, The Solace of Open Spaces
No Self stands alone. Behind it stretches an immense chain of physical and - as a special class within the whole - mental events, to which it belongs as a reacting member and which it carries on. Through the condition at any moment of its somatic, especially its cerebral system, and through education, and tradition, by word, by writing, by monument, by manners, by a way of life, by a newly shaped environment... by so much that a thousand words would not exhaust it, by all that, I say, the Self is not so much linked with what happened to its ancestors, it is not so much the product, and merely the product, of all that, but rather, in the strictest sense of the word, the SAME THING as all that: the strict, direct continuation of it, just as the Self aged fifty is the continuation of the Self aged forty.
— Erwin Schrödinger, My View of the World
As the sun, revealer of all objects to the seer, is not harmed by the sinful eye, nor by the impurities of the objects it gazes on, so the one Self, dwelling in all, is not touched by the evils of the world. (The Upanishads: Breath of the Eternal, pg. 35)
— Prabhavananda, The Upanishads: Translations from the Sanskrit
You are never alone as long as you are in the company of your precious self.
— Miya Yamanouchi
As fire, though one, takes the shape of every object which it consumes, so the Self, though one, takes the shape of every object in which it dwells. (The Upanishads: Breath of the Eternal, pg. 35)
— Prabhavananda, The Upanishads: Translations from the Sanskrit
By identifying with a particular name that belongs to a particular body and mind, the self begins the process of creating a separate identity. Add in a complex jumble of ideas, beliefs, and opinions, along with some selective and often painful memories with which to create a past to identify with, as well as the raw emotional energy to hold it all together, and before you know it, you've got a very convincing - though divided - self.
— Adyashanti
Read good books to improve yourself.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
As psychologist Bruce Hood writes in his book The Self Illusion, you have an origin story and a sense that you’ve traveled from youth to now along a linear path, with ups and downs that ultimately made you who you are today. Babies don’t have that. That sense is built around events that you can recall and place in time. Babies and small children have what Hood calls “unconscious knowledge,” which is to say they simply recognize patterns and make associations with stimuli. Without episodic memories, there is no narrative; and without any narrative, there is no self. Somewhere between ages two and three, according to Hood, that sense of self begins to come online, and that awakening corresponds with the ability to tell a story about yourself based on memories. He points to a study by Alison Gopnik and Janet Astington in 1988 in which researchers presented to three-year-olds a box of candy, but the children were then surprised to find pencils inside instead of sweets. When they asked each child what the next kid would think was in the box when he or she went through the same experiment, the answer was usually pencils. The children didn’t yet know that other people have minds, so they assumed everyone knew what they knew. Once you gain the ability to assume others have their own thoughts, the concept of other minds is so powerful that you project it into everything: plants, glitchy computers, boats with names, anything that makes more sense to you when you can assume, even jokingly, it has a sort of self. That sense of agency is so powerful that people throughout time have assumed a consciousness at the helm of the sun, the moon, the winds, and the seas. Out of that sense of self and other selves come the narratives that have kept whole societies together. The great mythologies of the ancients and moderns are stories made up to make sense of things on a grand scale. So strong is the narrative bias that people live and die for such stories and devote whole lives to them (as well as take lives for them).
— David McRaney, You Are Now Less Dumb: How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself
Success - is not about defeating others
—  but about defeating oneself
True, lasting peace comes not through stamping out the ignorance of others, but through cultivating acceptance with ourselves.
— Johnathan Jena
Reputation is like wearing a T-shirt......you don't just wear it... you also represent it...
— Vasquez Pia
Was I like honey thinking it's a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle? -Cheryl
— Miranda July, The First Bad Man
The obstacle in spritual growth is not ignorance of self, it is the illusion of self.
— Aditya Ajmera
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth
— Oscar Wilde
We were revisionists
—  what we revised was ourselves.
I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runway sun, I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love. If you want me again look for me under your boot soles. You will hardly know who I am or what I mean. Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you
— Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
I am not my opinion of myself, I am not anything I can describe to me. I am only a part of a large system that cannot describe itself fully; therefore, I relax and I am in the point source of consciousness, of delight, of mobility, in the inner spaces. My tasks do not include describing me nor having an opinion about the system in which I live, biological or social or dyadic. I hereby drop that "responsibility".I am much more than I can conceive or judge me to be. Any negative or positive opinions I have of me are false fronts, headlines, limited and unnecessary programmes written on a thin paper blowing about and floating around in the vastness of inner spaces.
— John C. Lilly, The Center of the Cyclone: Looking into Inner Space
I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.
— C.G. Jung
When something is truly meant for YOU, you won't have to force it, rush it, or manipulate it.
— Stephanie Lahart
When a man does not dwell in self, then things will of themselves reveal their forms to him. His movement is like that of water, his stillness like that of a mirror, his responses like those of an echo.
— Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
The man who has forgotten self may be said to have entered Heaven.
— Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
It follows that I must accept myself for what I am before I can deliberately change it.
— Christmas Humphreys, The Buddhist Way Of Life
We may take it that the world is undoubtedly itself [i.e., is indistinct from itself], but, in any attempt to see itself, as an object, it must, equally, undoubtedly act so as to make itself distinct from and therefore false to itself.In this sense, in respect to its own information, the universe must expand to escape the telescopes through which we, who are it, are trying to capture it, which is us.
— G. Spencer Brown, Laws Of Form
I wondered how far I should turn out faithful to that ideal conception of one's own personality every man sets up for himself secretly.
— Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer
Secrets. Funny how, when you're about to be given something precious, something you've wanted for a long time, you suddenly feel nervous over taking it.Everyone wants more than anything to be allowed into someone else's most secret self. Everyone wants to allow someone into their most secret self. Everyone feels so alone inside that their deepest wish is for someone to know their secret being, because then they are alone no longer. Don't we all long for this? Yet when it's offered it's frightening, because you might not live up to the desires of the one who bestows the gift. And frightening because you know that accepting such a gift means you'll want-perhaps be expected- to offer a similar gift in return. Which means giving your *self* away. And what's more frightening than that?” ― Aidan Chambers, This is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn
— Aidan Chambers
Sam believes now that people repeatedly collide with each other swiftly, brutally – not to produce children but to shatter their sense of self, and be thrust into a creative space beyond reason, where anything can happen. Only through the destruction of psychological borders is freedom possible.
— Barry  Webster, The Lava in My Bones
To be an end in myself is to bring an end to myself.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Appreciate the people & good fortune within everyday life, this, is the quality of life, experienced.
— Bob Armstrong
I refuse to GROW UP............................Grow up to be what the World expects me to be..
— Abha Maryada Banerjee, Nucleus: Power Women: Lead from the Core
Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
— Hermann Hesse, Wandering
What we desire, more than a season or weather, is the comfortOf being strangers, at least to ourselves.
— Mark Strand, Blizzard of One
Persons Are Turned against Themselves Evil also turns a person against herself so that self is used against self. The case of the woman who received a dismissal letter from her pastor comes to mind again. The psychological decompensation she suffered was successfully used by her husband to intercede with a psychiatrist of his choosing to commit her to the mental unit of a hospital for an extended involuntary stay, which further worsened her condition. Additional examples abound. Some patients report cults using induced hypnotic states to encourage a subject's dissociated hands and arms to do something hurtful to someone else. In such cases, the subject is encouraged to watch the hand that is hers but not hers (because it is dissociated from her). The end result is often extreme guilt. self-loathing, and distrust of one's self and motives.An incestuous parent may use a child's own natural bodily responses to repeated sexual stimulation to make the point that the child really "wants and enjoys“ what is being forced upon her.
— J. Jeffrey Means, Trauma and Evil: Healing the Wounded Soul
You are the decision you make. The things you do. The people you love and who love you. They're the things that really make you who you are.
— Katie Dale, Someone Else's Life
At the end of this day there remains what remained yesterday and what will remain tomorrow: the insatiable, unquantifiable longing to be both the same and other.
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet