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 yet, Stephen Hawking begs to differ: “We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a...

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

Sometimes the greatest act of love is to walk away, so that the other person can find their true self and direction again.

… telling herself stories about herself in a singsong voice, creating her own mythology.

I myself am an absolute abyss.

she slammed the door andwas gone.I looked at the closed doorand at the doorknoband strangelyI didn’t feelalone.

The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself.

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...

We don’t realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.

Hoje sei muito bem que nada na vida repugna tanto ao homem do que seguir pelo caminho que o conduz a si mesmo.

There are things you should never give up on like your convictions and ambitions but most importantly…you should never give up on you. Keep making those sacrifices, keep running that race, keep advancing beyond your struggles to your eventual goal. You will deeply value your triumphs, if they’re not handed to you. Nothing, absolutely nothing,...

We labor under so many illusions about ourselves until we’re stripped bare. Being infected, being a vampire, it’s always you. Maybe it’s more you than ever before. You, distilled. You, boiled down like a sauce. But it’s you as you always were, deep down inside.

Success doesn’t come from self deprivation, it comes from self management

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies.

College was just so essential for my sense of self and my development.

Those stories tended to be located around the places where things went wrong, and people were cruel to one another, and so on. They reflected what was probably the most urgent truth operating in me at that time: oh, shit, things can go wrong, and if they do, people get hurt, and I might be...

That’s the key, you know, confidence. I know for a fact that if you genuinely like your body, so can others. It doesn’t really matter if it’s short, tall, fat or thin, it just matters that you can find some things to like about it. Even if that means having a good laugh at the...

My world foreshortened, flattening into a credit card. Seen head on, things seemed merely skewed, but from the side the view was virtually meaningless–a one-dimensional wafer. Everything about me may have been crammed in there, but it was only plastic. Indecipherable except to some machine.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Tonight the Internet seemed filled with versions of me, like a fun house filled with mirrors. Some of them made me look prettier, and some of them made me look uglier, and some of them chopped me right in half, but none of them were right.

channeling” someone else’s thoughts and feelings.

I said I would never self publish, but then I realized getting a traditional publisher or agent is a long process,

Please, touch me, I pray.

Don’t hate the media; become the media.

This time around I was so lonely that I was forced to be face to face with myself. Realizing at the end of the day I only have me and I didn’t seem to like my own company. I decided to I had to make myself into someone I can live with.

After a time I found that I could almost listen to the silence, which had a dimension all of its own. I started to attend to its strange and beautiful texture, which of course, it was impossible to express in words. I discovered that I felt at home and alive in the silence, which compelled...

down unlit ,unmarked & forgotten roads of REASON & PURPOSE

If inanimate objects are left to stand in their world, and are not invited out to mingle with our sense of self, they will quietly console and delight us. But to bind possessions up closely with the mind is less than fair to both.

The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?

I never really grew up until I had kids.

There is no growth without risk. There is always something to be gained from any experience. It is up to us to interpret our truth of self.

YOU MATTER- “if you forgive yourself then you can forgive others, if you control yourself then you can control others, if you understand yourself then you can understand others, if you love yourself then you can love others, if you respect yourself then you can respect others. Everything starts with only YOU. You Matter in...

Henry: I usen’t to need anyone, just to myself, stories, there was a great one about an old fellow called Bolton, I never finished it, I never finished any of them, I never finished anything, everything always went on for ever. (Pause.)

You are who you are when nobody’s watching.

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us; we are its victims, are we have no control over it.

You can be a really nasty, selfish little jerk when you’re scared enough. I was scared enough.

For all that is ours, we must make conscious attempts to look after and for all that is not ours, we must make conscious attempts to stay aloof.

When you are aligned with the truth of who you truly are, then you experience bliss.

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

Most people believe it is only by constraint they can get any good out of themselves, and so they live in a state of psychological distortion. It is his own self that each of them is most afraid of resembling. Each of them sets up a pattern and imitates it; he doesn’t even choose the...

SELF-EVIDENT, adj. Evident to one’s self and to nobody else.

The best thing to learn from any government is that it does not get affacted by what other people talk or think about it.

The obstacle in spritual growth is not ignorance of self, it is the illusion of self.

Depression weighs you down like a rock in a river. You don’t stand a chance. You can fight and pray and hope you have the strength to swim, but sometimes, you have to let yourself sink. Because you’ll never know true happiness until someone or something pulls you back out of that river–and you’ll never...

The journey was a surreal dream. This world was about knowing the person you’d always wanted to be and setting your foot down to it, remembering the person you’d thought you were as a child and rejoicing in its living, breathing actuality.

What is this ‘I’? If you analyse it closely you will, I think, find that it is just a little bit more than a collection of single data (experiences and memories), namely the canvas upon which they are collected. And you will, on close introspection, find that what you really mean by ‘I’ is that...

I? This is the very root of all evil.

Self is found in knowledge, devotion and concentration, in integrity, purity, moderation, self-control and intelligence.