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.

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.

Maybe it’s not about the journey but rather the way you imagine the journey when you read a book.

Don’t try to tell me what I am because I know what I am not

We can see Spirit made visible when people are kind to one another, especially when it’s a really busy person, like you, taking care of a needy, annoying, neurotic person, like you.

One should always make constant efforts to seek such a Guru, who can lead him to the path of self-realization.

When life gets rough, never think you have failed… allow your self a quality of emotion and introspection. It is called turning inwards. When you observe and examine your mental and emotional state, from your...

To be ‘one’ in one’s own hands is to be ‘one.’ To be ‘one’ in the hands of God is to be ‘one’ that is far too vast to be counted.

Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak… surrender to them. Don’t ask first whether it’s permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some...

The deeper I go into myself the more I realize that I am my own enemy.

Self-hatred is self-imprisonment. Self-forgiveness is self-liberation. You have the right to suppress yourself, oppress yourself and depress yourself. You have the right to impress yourself too. Feel happy!

One of the great Sufis said: ‘A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one.

Cast off everything/everyone else has known for you./Move gratefully, from these old skins./And this time, if you toughen,/decide/for whom?

When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That’s when I feel beautiful.

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.

Maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people,” I say. “Maybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time.

My anger feels hot and bilious but I keep it bottled until it doubles back and I’m mad at myself.

In life, when one gets to the point of a deeper sense of understanding about himself and his purpose, he least explains himself much to people who fail to understand him and his purpose. That...

We do not see the world through a window, but through a mirror. Everything we discern is comparatively held to the vision with which we see ourselves.

Education is the key for self liberation.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.

What will you do with your self? Many men and women are still in darkness, trying to figure out the meaning and purpose of life. But no matter what you try to do with your...

Lines for WinterTell yourself as it gets cold and gray falls from the air that you will go on walking, hearing the same tune no matter where you find yourself— inside the dome of dark...

Let not the rash marble riskgarrulous breaches of oblivion’s omnipotence,in many words recallingname, renown, events, birthplace.All those glass jewels are best left in the dark.Let not the marble say what men do not.The essentials of...

We are inscrutable even to ourselves, I suppose.

You’re a poem?’ I repeated.She chewed her lower lip. ‘If you want. I am a poem, or I am a pattern, or a race of people whose whose world was swallowed by the sea.”Isn’t it...

Faith for Jesus is the opposite of anxiety. If you are anxious, if you are trying to control everything, if you are worried about many things, you don’t have faith, according to Jesus. You do...

What is it we are questing for? It is the fulfillment of that which is potential in each of us. Questing for it is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into...

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

There were times when it seemed the different parts of him where not all under the same management.

The more severely he struggles to hold on to the primal face-to-face relation with God, the more tenuous this becomes, until in the end the relation to God Himself threatens to become a relation to...

The proposal to have self-rule in either side of Kashmir may forever remain a point for discussion in the back channel diplomacy between India and Pakistan.

This was all of it, no doubt, the strange passing feeling that had come to me in the boat. Age. Vanity. The impossibility of accepting the new versions of oneself that life kept offering. The...

Byron: The luxuries of this place have made me soft.The metal point’s gone from my pen, there’s nothing left but the feather.Gutman:That may be true.But what can you do about it?Byron:Make a departure.Gutman:From yourself?Byron:From my...

The self may be extinguished, but there are many selves and the Will creates them.

Never delete but save the numbers of your enemies.. so that it helps you avoid them better.

We throw away real people searching for the “perfect” person the same way that we throw ourselves away searching for our “perfect” self.

There is only one you. Stop trying to devalue yourself by trying to be a copy of someone else.

I don’t judge people. It blurs out the center of my attention,my focus, myself.

I have to admit it humbly, mon cher compatriote, I was always bursting with vanity. I, I, I is the refrain of my whole life, which could be heard in everything I said. I could...

Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing...

Hope comes not from the people around you, but from yourself.

He wondered if anyone really ever changed, or if stuff just piled on and on, covering up, but never erasing all the different parts. How deep would you have to dig to find who you...