What an idiot I’d been. What a spoilt brat. What a bloody fool.

No Self stands alone. Behind it stretches an immense chain of physical and – as a special class within the whole – mental events, to which it belongs as a reacting member and which it...

There’s a lot of things wrong with this country, but one of the few things still right with it is that a man can steer clear of the organized bullshit if he really wants to....

The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in joy, you don’t live for yourself alone. Live for others too!

The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.

Everybody was worried after the stroke, but he seemed fine and was his normal self.

Like vanishing dew,a passing apparitionor the sudden flashof lightning — already gone –thus should one regard one’s self.

Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are...

We have to serve ourself many years before we gain our own confidence.

Your mind is a treasure house that you should stock well and it’s the one part of you the world can’t interfere with.

You wanted to believe that getting older, growing up, would change everything, transform you into the amazing person you were meant to be. But what if it didn’t? What if you had to stay you...

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are a subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who has suffered from insomnia.

Our true self is being who we are.

I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.

On my fifteenth birthday, I came to realize that the expression spoiled rotten meant exactly that. We kids were the apples of our parents’ eyes, and I, for one, was rotting from inside out.

What we desire, more than a season or weather, is the comfortOf being strangers, at least to ourselves.

Relate to a life situation in the deepest sense: not from the standpoint of the ego that bemoans its fate and rebels against it, but from… the greater inner law that has left behind its...

I don’t know what is better than the work that is given to the actor – to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

It is often by a trivial, even an anecdotal decision, that we direct our activities into a certain channel, and thus determine which of the potential expressions of our individuality become manifest. Usually we know...

We are whiplashed between an arrogant overestimation of ourselves and a servile underestimation of ourselves.

It is the thought that the least efficient way of of finding either happiness or pleasure is to pursue them. Put in terms of happiness, we can see it like this: To be happy you...

Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for...

Positivist man is a curious creature who dwells in the tiny island of light composed of what he finds scientifically “meaningful,” while the whole surrounding area in which ordinary men live from day to day...

Why India would accept self-rule in Kashmir as it has been controlling large part of the disputed region.

As long as a self is driven by an id to a Thou, it is not a matter of love, either. In love the self is not driven by the id, but rather the self...

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

When You Are Just You,People Will Always Bring Themselves.

Self motivation is essential for individual growth.

I am not able,” then I set up a self-fulfilling prophecy. As I think of myself, so I shall be.

Society was the only threat to the sanctity of selfhood: an unpatroned library was an orderly library.

I firmly believe if a person is just bound and determined to self-destruct, what can you or anybody else do? What we can do is to make sure that child doesn’t just sit there and...

Whatever it is I’m born to do, my fear of failing at it has almost become greater than my desire to figure out what it is.

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any given moment, we might improve, or at least disguise or...

Children ten years old wake up and find themselves here, discover themselves to have been here all along; is this sad? They wake like sleepwalkers, in full stride; they wake like people brought back from...

Healing is the journey. The destination is our self. The full recognition of all the different aspects of our self — our joy, our sorrow, our pain, our pleasure….all lead us to the source of...

I think myself so terribly ‘clever’ that the need for God is blatantly irrelevant. And all the while, in the rapidly growing mess that I’m ‘cleverly’ creating, I rather quickly begin to realize that the...

It is not for me to judge another man’s life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.

I protect myself by refusing to know myself.

We labor under so many illusions about ourselves until we’re stripped bare. Being infected, being a vampire, it’s always you. Maybe it’s more you than ever before. You, distilled. You, boiled down like a sauce....

Success doesn’t come from self deprivation, it comes from self management

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies.

College was just so essential for my sense of self and my development.

Those stories tended to be located around the places where things went wrong, and people were cruel to one another, and so on. They reflected what was probably the most urgent truth operating in me...

That’s the key, you know, confidence. I know for a fact that if you genuinely like your body, so can others. It doesn’t really matter if it’s short, tall, fat or thin, it just matters...

My world foreshortened, flattening into a credit card. Seen head on, things seemed merely skewed, but from the side the view was virtually meaningless–a one-dimensional wafer. Everything about me may have been crammed in there,...

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Tonight the Internet seemed filled with versions of me, like a fun house filled with mirrors. Some of them made me look prettier, and some of them made me look uglier, and some of them...

channeling” someone else’s thoughts and feelings.