There can only be two basic loves… the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God.

On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

He was a victim of his own integrity, which forced him to do his best, even when he would have preferred to do nothing at all.

Ask anyone and they’ll most likely say their family is crazy, and if they don’t say their family is crazy, their friends are crazy. That’s because everyone is crazy after taking the mask off. People...

In that little pocket-size world of his, he was the absolute master.

The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.

I got a boob job on my butt, and be honest here, does this bra make my ass look fat?

Acted drama requires surrender of one’s self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.

You have to find out who you are aside from what the media say you are. If you’ve become reliant on them for kind of a sense of self, then you’re really screwed.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street,Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.

But replacing hunger for divine connection with Double Stuf Oreos is like giving a glass of sand to a person dying of thirst. It creates more thirst, more panic.

Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel’s prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o’er the starlit sea.

I can pour myself into Bon Iver. It’s a thing about self- and mental discovery, and those are all important things. But it’s not 148-shows-over-a-year-and-a-half important, though. It’s a machine, and it’s money, and you...

When you submit yourself to God and obey Him, you allow Him to do what He desires in your life. You make it possible for Him to lead you wherever He wants to use you.

When you’re traveling you need to take care of yourself to get by, you have to keep an eye on yourself and your place in the world. It means concentrating on yourself, thinking about yourself...

By gazing inward the true reflection of the self is revealed.

you actually do not hate you, you just hate the circumstances at the time

You are never alone as long as you are in the company of your precious self.

Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us.

It is wisest to be impartial. If you have health, but are attached to it, you will always be afraid of losing it. And if you fear that loss, but become ill, you will suffer....

When you become the image of your own imagination, it’s the most powerful thing you could ever do.

Service is not something you do. It is something you are.

Actually, this is a self-supporting project.

There is no separate path other than knowing one’s self.

When a man does not dwell in self, then things will of themselves reveal their forms to him. His movement is like that of water, his stillness like that of a mirror, his responses like...

It is more substantial to represent a purpose, rather than just a title.

You do not need permission to be you. Just be your authentic, brilliant, one-soul-only self. You are a marvel. Act like it!

It’s only recently that we’ve discovered that the artist’s inner self is somehow more important than the public world. I’m happier to create exterior pieces for the world rather than to express something I deeply...

Sexy at the millennium means having a solid sense of self but never taking yourself too seriously.

Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.

And I’m made up of everyone I’ve ever met who’s changed the way I think. So who is “me”?

It’s good when a man deceives your expectations, when he doesn’t correspond to the preconceived notion of him. To belong to a type is the end of a man, his condemnation. If he doesn’t fall...

The people around you are mirrors, I think. You see yourself reflected in their eyes. If the mirror is true, and smooth, you see your true self. That’s how you learn who you are.

Anytime I was denying my inner self, I knew absolutely nothing.

It’s okay. We’re all messed up in our own special way.

Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness of others. If I am estranged from myself, I am likewise...

[E]ach of our voices has something unique to say. Not only should I not mold my life to the demands of external conformity; I can’t even find the model by which to live outside myself....

One must find the source within one’s own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking — a detour, an error.

Bir insan, yargılanmayı göze almadan kendisi olmayı nasıl başarabilir ki?

Look, you can’t think of a person like it’s one thing, one ‘I’ that decides everything. The brain is a collective, a huge number of all these thinking modules. It doesn’t make a decision, it...

Love After LoveThe time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat....

All hatred is self-hatred, just as all healing is self-healing.

There’s the part that I just want what I want, and I don’t want to be bothered by anything else, and sort of the short-term more compulsive self. And then that’s the longer-term, aspirational self...

Think of the self that God has given as an acorn. It is a marvelous little thing, a perfect shape, perfectly designed for its purpose, perfectly functional. Think of the grand glory of an oak...

Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

I shall strip away layer after layer of grime — the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling — until I come to the very thing itself and know it for...

The truth is he spends thirty minutes of every hour suspecting he has missed some essential clue about himself. And not only himself–he has a recurring fantasy that one night, while he was asleep, the...

Whatever you is, Onion,” he said, “be it full.