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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

You may abuse your energy when you do not know what it is meant to help you carry. An undiscovered self is an easy way to rob the world of leadership impacts.

You are the only person that you’ll have for the rest of your life. Cherish yourself. Treat yourself with kindness. Love yourself. Be your own caretaker.

This accidentalmeeting of possibilitiescalls itself I.I ask: what am I doing here?And, at once, this Ibecomes unreal.

Love yourself enough to open your eyes, and open your eyes enough to love yourself.

what is being forced upon her.

I’m persnickety,” I confessed. “Not, incidentally, to the point of being snarly. But still. Delightful and persnickety are not a common blend.” “Do you want to know why I never married?” “The question wasn’t at...

I suppose it had something to do with it being a secret, just how much it had meant to me. Maybe all of us at Hailsham had little secrets like that–little private nooks created out...

If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger takes up residence inside our skin.

Introduce yourself to your self. That’s what life is all about.

Dajka confirmed to Craig Phillips that he had been untruthful to both inquiries. He admitted to self injecting in French’s room,

Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.

Death changes nothing but the masks that cover our faces.

We will not wake up ten years from now and find we have passively taken on the character of God.

The whole value of solitude depends upon one’s self; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make...

If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even...

It doesn’t matter where you’ve been, only where you are going.

If you look at who goes to the polls now to vote, that’s self-selected too.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.

They said that you would never make it, but you did. They said that you would quit, but you persevered and fought through every obstacle that came your way. They said that you didn’t have...

you ask me a question I’ll give you an answer…but don’t look at me when I say something you don’t want to hear.

If love becomes too painful, then it’s time to let that love go and save yourself. You have to keep this in mind because you’ll be able to find another love but not another self.

When I went on anyway, my body began to grow cold, and I thought I was dead. Face pale, my dead self sat down on a bench and began to turn toward my real self,...

No good can come from beating ourselves up for falling down—for feeling unhappy when we want to feel just the opposite.

When you say ‘I want to be an inspiring leader,’ the operative phrase is ‘I want.’ This is inherently me-centered and self serving whether or not you recognise it. What you are really saying is...

What Althusser does… is to rethink the concept of ideology in terms of Lacan’s ‘imaginary’. For the relation of an individual subject to society as a whole in Althusser’s theory is rather like the relation...

hide your feelings, hide you thoughts, hide your self from the world but dont hide you from you cause only you know where you stand & the world’s knows nothing

First of all, although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own personal salvation for himself in fear and trembling. We can help one another to find the meaning...

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...