We always imagine some future self that won’t ever get pissed off — that’ll always go to bed on time, always brush our teeth, always enjoy mind-blowing sex with our spouse on Tuesday night. And...

If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you’ll see your rivals scrambling for second place.

Who are you?’I didn’t understand the question.I’m Uri’, he said. ‘What’s your name?’I gave him my name. ‘Stopthief.

What you see, say, think, and believe about yourself affects your feelings, decisions, and actions.

Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.

Sometimes you need to take a break from everyone and spend time alone, to experience, appreciate and love yourself.

The self is hateful.” But “I” is passable. (“Le moi est haïssable”. – Mais le Je est passable.)

We are just a certain quantity of cells, all of us!

Silence embeds thoughts better than speeches. If you are afraid of silence, you are afraid of your thoughts.

To be always what I am – and so changed from what I was.

As Lucretius says: ‘Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.’ But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself? He ever follows himself and weighs upon himself as his own most...

The solution to self-pity is found in the labor of selfless giving to others.

I had no place to go and after that we sort of self-destructed, … We probably shouldn’t have been there to begin with. At the start, my Tundra was driving away from everybody and I...

If you cannot value a commitment made by someone else, your own commitments lose their value too.

A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one’s self, without a companion, and without a single argument.

Sometimes I think that wisdoms slip from my mind like drool from the lips of an idiot…Where’s all this stuff coming from? Is it any good? Any good in, you know, the wisdom sense? Who...

In the night, I am kept awake by the endless chatter of my inner self. I hear it speak softly of old hurts and fondly of past loves, while its demands and anxieties resound throughout...

We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.

If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget. The love, the heartbreak, the joy, the despair, the things I did that were good, the things I did that were...

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one’s lost self.

When you eliminate the Ego’s intense desire to be correct, the clarity of the moment can come through. How simple is that?

Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs.

He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman.

It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his...

Cowardice is when you hide away from your real self, and wear another self in pretense. Be yourself; that is bravery. If yourself is not better for you to be, change yourself and live in...

Possessions and positions may promote our happiness but cannot create it. Happiness is a state created by self through the realization of how the self is important to the creator.

Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you, they really don’t want to be writers. They want to have been writers....

It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use flaunting on that level, the level of the ‘public’, a kind of beatness...

When I suddenly see myself in the depths of the mirror, I take fright. I can scarcely believe that I have limits, that I am outlined and defined. I feel myself to be dispersed in...

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.

I shall strip away layer after layer of grime — the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling — until I come to the very thing itself and know it for...

The truth is he spends thirty minutes of every hour suspecting he has missed some essential clue about himself. And not only himself–he has a recurring fantasy that one night, while he was asleep, the...

Whatever you is, Onion,” he said, “be it full.

Apparently Brooklyn needn’t always push itself to be something else, something conscious and anxious, something pointed toward Manhattan…. Brooklyn might sometimes also be pleased, as here on Flatbush, to be its grubby, enduring self.

i have a body and I am grateful, as I find it to be a very useful instrument for expressing love, strength, flexibility, gracebut, I am not my body…

He doesn’t have anything like wisdom of age or hindsight. He’s a biased historian of self, an emotional revisionist. We all are, for the most part.

without awareness I have no ‘ self ‘ in myself.

Sometimes, we can be our worst enemy. That our mind is capable of twisting and turning things, and taking us to really dark places.

Aside from myself, there was no sign of me.

I think there is something a little too self conscious about enjoying being an outsider.

…we fear monsters because we fear the dark parts of ourselves…

To deal with things knowledge of things is needed. To deal withpeople, you need insight, sympathy. To deal with yourself, you neednothing. Be what you are–conscious being–and don’t stray away fromyourself.

If I can be my crazy, wild self in front of a person, and he still likes me, that’s romantic.

Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them. A lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena. A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it...

It wasn’t necessary to know your own demons in order to find God.

Everybody tries to protect this vulnerable two three four five six seven eight year old inside, and to acquire skills and aptitudes for dealing with the situations that threaten to overwhelm it… Usually, that child...

I am… me. No matter what I say or do, I’m still me. That ‘s what Satozuki told me once. The things I feel, the things I do… Being a vampire, Being a man, being...

Not like the me was some tough somebody, or somebody she had put together for show. But like, like somebody she favored and could count on. A secret somebody you didn’t have to feel sorry...

…All who ever died, live; they are reborn and have no end, nor will there ever be an end. All, save you. For you would not have death. You lost death, you lost life, in...

Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. ‘I am that I am’ sums up the whole truth. The method is summed up in the words ‘Be still’. What does stillness...