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.

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.

He describes himself as a mild depressive, and he goes through just terrible suffering, much of it self-generated. And yet he’s also an extremely buoyant person who finds a great deal in life to entertain...

As I, my real self, grew older, I entered more and more into the substance of my dreams. One may dream, and even in the midst of the dream be aware that he is dreaming,...

I felt like I was suffering from the ‘impostor syndrome, … I had these niggling self doubts. But now I know I can really play. These women were extremely tough pros with blood lust at...

Once I was free; there was no cage that could bind me, and I had yet to create my box of numbness within my mind to be my silent protector.

My past is everything I failed to be.

There are days when that dark face is something I can think of as a friend – a primal energy that carries me forward when nothing else will – but more often than not I...

You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.

Personality is a strategy devised by a child. Our true, original self lies under our personality, in the transpersonal ground of our being, at our core.

Body love is more than acceptance of self or the acceptance of the body. Body love is about self-worth in general. It’s more than our physical appearance.

I’m as proud of my inconsistencies as I am my consistencies.

God loves you and everything about you, so why beat up on your precious self?

I don’t decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.

Suffering builds character and impels you to penetrate life’s secrets. It’s the path of great artists, great religious leaders, great social reformers. The problem is not suffering per se, but rather our identification with our...

Sometimes the heart breaks… Sometimes you break… Sometimes you break your heart by breaking yourself for someone who wouldn’t do the same…

Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one’s own skilled action.

Self-correction makes me check the ruler of my life against the yardstick of my inner voice. I acknowledge when I don’t measure up. Self-correction is an ongoing process. If done often enough, I can stop...

How can I know for sure if it’s my son speaking and not you?””You never can, my lord. Just as no man can ever be sure that he alone is a thinking and feeling creature...

One has to develop attachment to Self.

To forget the whole world is easy; to make the whole world forget you is hard.

Very good, Jason Grace,” Notus said. “You are a son of Jupiter, yet you have chosen your own path- as all the greatest demigods have done before you. You cannot control your parentage, but you...

When you understand what you’re truly worth, who is going to be able to make you feel worthless? No one.

Since I am never alone with myself. Since I am always watching the character playing my part in the scene, there is no possibility of spontaneity.

Don’t mind what people say about youthe most important thing is what you believe you are.

The square root of I is I.

To be enlightened is to know oneself and not run away.

YOU ARE NOT HERE TO LISTEN TO YOURSELF,YOU ARE HERE TO LISTEN TO YOUR SOUL.

She thought back to what he had said. /I could make you very happy./ It was something men said then, when they were trying to persuade you, and that was what they meant. It seemed...

There is a God part in you. The consciousness. The pure Self. Learn to listen the voice of that Power.

I always believed that If I’m not carrying at least a slight poetically painful crack in my heart I’ve been cheated by nature.

What we talk about less often, because it is harder to explain, is the way a perfume can give breath and body to the phantom selves that waft about us as we go through our...

There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in this way, and not in imitation of anyone else’s life. But this notion gives...

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...

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.

I simply love being me. You have no power to control my feelings because I own my own heart

Your title is what you are; your visions are who you are. When you know who you are, then you will know where you can be useful most.

The moment you open yourself completely to the love that awaits your conscious embrace, you are no longer there to receive it.

Inside our mind there is hidden place that contains the mind within the mind. There, you will find another version of yourself that may be your true self. We do not find that self by...

Over and over we lose this sense of feeling we are wholly in our skins by means already named as well as through extended duress. Those who toil too long without respite are also at...

Life should only be a competition between your new and old self, with the motive of creating a better you in the future.

Time alone helps us to remember who we are.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.