Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It’s a form of self hate. So, with reckless abandon, we strive to be like...

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to...

Because we are made in God’s image, in fleeing from a relationship with a loving God, we are also running from being our most authentic selves.

Every angel is terrifying.Through the darkness, they move silently…I will go down into death with you.I must go where I must goTo see what I must seeIn that place where no one knows…… This is...

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

old photographs are very deceiving, they give us the illusion that we are alive in them, and it’s not true, the person we are looking at no longer exists, and if that person could see...

[Coach Joe Gibbs didn’t share the quarterback’s critical self-assessment.] He’s playing very, very good, … He’s got a feel for things, he made some phenomenal throws, he scrambled out of the pocket. There’s no one...

I was tired of being me.

Jesus was not SELFLESS. He did not live as if ONLY other people counted. He knew his value and worth. He had friends. He asked people to help him. At the same time Jesus was...

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

You don’t care what anyone thinks about you,’ he said.‘That’s crazy,’ she said. ‘I care what everyone thinks about me.’‘I can’t tell,’ he said. ‘You just seem like yourself, no matter what’s happening around you....

In terms of days and moments lived, you’ll never again be as young as you are right now, so spend this day, the youth of your future, in a way that deflects regret. Invest in...

When I stopped loving, I lost purpose; When I stopped loving myself, I lost myself.

That was with me for years–feeling I wasn’t myself. And I do think I wasn’t my real self then. Of course, I’m not sure there is such a thing as a real self. You could...

Be that self which one truly is.

Well, you can say there is a self driving car. I’m seeing the automation of vehicles. Really, computer-assisted driving. I think that is really interesting to us because we are taking all of the sensors...

Sometimes I get mail for people who lived in my home before I did, and sometimes my own body seems like a home through which successive people have passed like tenants, leaving behind memories, habits,...

Teach a person to think and they’ll devise a way to eat for a lifetime

Feelings are something you have; not something you are.

A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don’t want to see....

When you try to talk about yourself, you dont know who you are, or what your like, or what your like to other people. And the moment you do it’s a formula for yourself, and...

One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?

Note To Self!I will stay calm and relaxed no matter what confronts me today, tomorrow and everyday forth!

Strangers are never seen through a window. When our eyes are cast upon another, we are in fact gazing into the depths of a mirror. If you truly desire to understand how you feel about...

Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they’ll say you’re crazy and you’re blasphemous, and they’ll either put you in...

I don’t think there’s any question, … that we need Jermaine to be his old self.

Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow-to let the Self die. No longer to be Self, to experience the peace of an emptied heart, to...

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more...

I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.

Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence.

Self-control is a divided battle in one body. The “self” produces desires that “you” must battle with and kick off. Two wrestlers in one body. Just imagine. It’s difficult, though rewarding!

In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference. We commonly do not remember that it is, after all,...

Comparison is an act of violence against the self.

A real friend is one who helps us to think our best thoughts, do our noblest deeds, and be our finest selves.

I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all?

We don’t want to end up with a situation where we both have a very stringent self-regulatory regime, [but then] we have to answer to their data privacy regime as well. The devil is in...

Often when she liked a picture she found that she was liking some part of herself, some part of her that was in accord with the picture

Time stretches and calms, but still we reach, for we belonged then. We want to know. Sometimes that knowledge is painful, or inconvenient, or even damning. But it is essential. It exposes us for what...

The biographer who writes the life of his subject’s self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

See the Divinity in others and you will find it within yourself.

Suppose you turn your attention inward in search of this ‘I’. You may encounter nothing more than an ever changing stream of consciousness, a flow of thoughts and feelings in which there is no real...

Often, we tend to wrap ourselves around him so tight that we neglect our mission, our purpose, our calling, sometimes our children and even our God

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

Maybe anosognosia, the inability to see your own disability, is the human condition and I’m the only one who doesn’t suffer from it.

…we each harbor a shadow self with shadowy motives and murky desires…

The self is the class (not the collection) of the experiences (or autopsychological states). The self does not belong to the expression of the basic experience, but is constructed only on a very high level.

How many people came and stayed a certain time,Uttered light or dark speech that became part of youLike light behind windblown fog and sandFiltered and influenced by it, until no partRemains that is surely you.

Sometimes we know who we want to be and what we want to do long… long before we know how to get there.

We must all allow ourselves the fantasy of projection from time to time, a chance to clothe ourselves in the imaginary gowns and tails of what has never been and never will be. This gives...