She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.

Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you.

Why, isabel? Why are you doing this to yourself? To your body?’And why are you doing this to me? is the awful, selfish thought that is left unsaid.’Because I can,’ she answers, and I shiver...

I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis.

I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.

The price we paid for the volumes of ourselves that we suffocated in the dark.

He himself said it, and this self was Pythagoras.

…ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know…

All I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect

It takes one to know one” when they become lost I condemnation and judgment of others. The world that we perceive is a reflection of our own states of mind and reveals our own level...

He is convinced that the people who might mean something to him will always misjudge him and pass him by. He is not so much afraid of loneliness as he is of accepting cheap substitutes;...

Frankl asserts that “the potentialities of life are not indifferent possibilities, but must be seen in the light of meaning and values.” Such meaning and values cannot be imposed; each individual must seek out for...

But even them, my pains, I understand ill. That must come from my not being all pain and nothing else. There’s the rub. Then they recede, or I, till they fill me with amaze and...

I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.

Between you and you, let there be no secrets. ~T.F. Hodge

From the Absolute to the Relative-from the Infinite to the Finite-from the Undifferentiated to the Differentiated-from the Unconditioned to the Conditioned and again from the Relative to the Absolute. That is the whole truth of...

After bearing the consequences of a mistake, the person either becomes a better person or completely succumbs to the atrocity.

The students and faculty of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities are motivated survivors and self-achievers. We look forward to providing them with effective tools and supportive services that assist them in maximizing their health...

Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.

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.