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...

Stay unknown until you know what you want to be known for.#StokesNotes

I am forever fettered to myself […] and that’s what I must try to live with.

I stop fighting my inner demons. We’re on the same side now. T-shirt

If everybody spent enough time worrying about their own goddamn selves, no one would have to worry about anyone else.

Like it or not, we are all in business and the products we are selling is our unique selves.

And people turn to internet with the hope that in this virtual world, where real identity need not be disclosed, they will find someone before whom they could be their true self,without any pretensions and...

I’ll walk, but not in old heroic traces,And not in paths of high morality,And not among the half-distinguished faces,The clouded forms of long-past history.I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading:It vexes me to...

Crime begins with God. It will end with man, when he finds God again. Crime is everywhere, in all the fibres and roots of our being. Every minute of the day adds fresh crimes to...

Over the years, I learned to smile or laugh when I was supposed to. I kept my true self hidden; I did not need to unleash my pain on the world around me. Instead, I...

From so much self-revising, I’ve destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, I’m now my thoughts and not I

But, it’s not what they think of you that matters, it’s what you think of yourself. If I’d said something mean to them, I wouldn’t like myself very much.

Love and self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both

We who are born into this age of freedom and independence and the self must undergo this loneliness. It is the price we pay for these times of ours.

Purify your intentions, your inner being, your heart and besincere in your actions,’ he wrote. ‘God looks into your heart, not at your outer form. He looks atwhat lies behind the clothes … He looks...

There’s always the option of deciding for yourself who you are and what you’ll become.

Was I like honey thinking it’s a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle? -Cheryl

When you’re rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even thoseyou love.

The depth of a man is a limit only he can know, should he have the courage to explore into the dark.

This is what we have been doing, we self-destruct in certain innings. I mean (Chris) Tuttle certainly wasn’t on his game, he walked quite a few, but he had a couple bunt situations early on,...

We are meant to do the work of angels for we are often disguised from ourSelves.

Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.

When the self is not engaged in apprehending objects it becomes aware of itself.

I want to unfold.I don’t want to be folded anywhere,because where I am folded,there I am a lie.

You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its...

What we’re trying to do is encourage the industry to take some steps soon, to do some self-regulation, based upon a tough report that was very clear as to the abuses and steps that have...

Rulers are not anointed. They are created by the void of self-mastery.

You want to be loved? Love yourself first and passionately. Forgive yourself readily. Care for every part of you. Only when you love yourself do you have love to give to others.

If only youcould see me as the Devil does: palatable & raw; chasing a chance blue moon

In love, there is no need to choose between self and other, because self is other.

Reputation is like wearing a T-shirt……you don’t just wear it… you also represent it…

We always look behind, through, and beyond ourselves, never within.

Aku bukan Wahib. Aku adalah me-wahib. Aku mencari, dan terus menerus mencari, menuju dan menjadi Wahib. Ya, aku bukan aku. Aku adalah meng-aku, yang terus menerus berproses menjadi aku.

In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for that might be our fault.

The best cure for one’s bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.

Success – is not about defeating others; but about defeating oneself

We are more severe judges of our own acts… We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts.

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.

And yet this self, containsTides, continents and stars―a myriad selves,Is small and solitary as one grass-bladePassed over by the windAmongst a myriad grasses on the prairie.