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.

Here in this endless and gleaming wildernessI was removed farther than ever from the world of men –And I never saw so close and so clearlyThe image in the mirror of my own soul.

I am living a simple life with a complicated mind and I have yet to find a state of mind where I feel safe with who I am, where I am, with what I do.

Um um um um um. This business of—this business about marketing yourself, there’s nothing wrong with that. Unless we’re allowed to think that that’s—that that’s it. That that’s the point, that that’s the goal, you...

Love yourself, or no one else will love you better

Always do your best to be yourself. Learn to listen to your inner-voice. This is your true authenticity; this is who you really are. Self-discovery of your inner-self is the path to your destiny…

All relationships change the brain – but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.

As long as you were comfortable with yourself and believed in yourself, then you could just throw out all that nonsense of worrying about your status and “success” and other people’s opinions.

We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is to be alone, and the mind that is alone is...

I keep on dreaming, but to find freedom, one must first search inwards.

There are times when no matter what you do it seems to blow up in your face, whether it’s self-inflicted or inflicted from the outside.