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

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...

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

I ‘OWN’ some part of the evolution…I want to make my SHARE ‘relevant’ ‘meaningful’ and ‘miraculous’!!

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...

Having a self, even a simple self, allows you to look into the world and put a mark over what is more important and less important. It’s a way of classifying the world in terms...

I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.

We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and...

I realized that I needed to be anonymous on the street and somebody else on the stage. I had tried to put my street self on the stage, but what they want is an actor...

My real self, the self I have always been from a child, is a loner and nerd, slightly overweight, with a very heavy fringe. That is who I was as a kid. I don’t think...

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I...

To teach one’s self is to be forced to learn twice.

Salattu itkusi, kaulavaltimosi syke ihoani vasten haluan vaan olla hiljaa tykönäsi ja sinun tähtesi unohtaa sen haavoittuneen, eksyneen linnun, jota en tuntenut, vaikka se asui minussa ja nokki nälissään sydämen puhki.

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.

Until self is discovered and steps of faith taken, destiny cannot be achieved

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

Now, here is the point about the self: it is insatiable. It is always, always hankering. It is what you might call rapacious to a fault. The great flaming mouth to the thing is never...

It’s not like my old self – I’m not in character anymore, I’m me. I’m not hiding behind that anymore.

Underneath my imagination there didn’t seem to be anything solid except for the space where I shoved my pain and sadness. Besides that, there were only twisted steel threads of axiety, woven through my body...

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

The you that you think of as you (and that thinks of you as you, and so on) is not you, it’s just the character that the underlying truth of you is dreaming into existence....

I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that’s what walking through New York on a June evening feels like – you feel like it’s Friday, and you’re 17 years old.

We lose ourselves in things we love. We find ourselves there, too.

Să nu te cerţi cu oamenii mai mult dec t cu tine însuţi.

I killed the Google Alert I used to have on myself two years ago. I don’t need any more information about myself. I get more than enough of that just by being me.

Make this poor self grow less and less, Be Thou my life and aim ; Oh, make me daily, through Thy grace, More worthy of Thy name.

Life is mostly an exercise in being something other than what we used to be while remaining fundamentally — and sometimes maddeningly — who we are.

If it takes you seven years to write each novel, you need a patron. And I would rather have my corporate self as my patron than any arts council or bestower of grants.

Why had it been left for a stranger to reveal him to himself?

How far can you go in life if you don’t love yourself?

And when you try to live there, to live in a place where you’re betraying yourself over and over, not only do you grow to resent the hell out of it, and resent the hell...

you can tell who you are the way people respond to you.

I can be somebody’s and still be my own.

Neither you, nor me, are “just vampires.” Being vampires is just a part of what we are. There is no need to feel bound and chained by it.

Wherever you go, there you are.

Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man: who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by...

My job as a coach isn’t to ‘fix’ people it is to ‘break’ them and empower them to connect to their spirit and trust that they will be re-built into a new improved version given...

Know your real Self, beyond who you think you are.

That is what we are, what we do: nose a net, push push, a net that never exists. The knots in the mesh as strong as our own believing. Our own fears.

The mystical trend of our time, which shows itself particularly in the rampant growth of the so-called Theosophy and Spiritualism, is for me no more than a symptom of weakness and confusion. Since our inner...

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much...

Not at all. It’s why people come. They say it’s about looking smart, or beautiful, or professional, but it’s not. Gray-haired ladies try to recapture their former brunette. Brunettes want to go blond. Other women...

If you forget who you’ve become remember who you are

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...

To know who I am is a species of knowing where I stand. My identity is defined by the commitments and identifications which provide the frame or horizon within which I can try to determine...