Life can be awkward at times. It is part of the growing process.

Sometimes, though, you make a pact with yourself. I’ll pretend there’s nothing wrong if you pretend there’s nothing wrong. It’s called denial, and it’s one of the strongest pacts in the world. Just ask all...

And into the close and mirrored catacombs of sleepWe’ll fall, and there in the faded light discover the bones,The dust, the bitter remains of someone who might have been Had we not taken his place.

SINK OR SWIM ALERTFolks with low self-esteem will push you under to save their drowning egosKamil Ali

It’s what’s buried deep inside that frightens me because it’s broken, like a shattered mirror.

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

When I turn my mind’s eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things…

We listen for guidance everywhere except from within.

She threw a lot better. She was back to her old self.

The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.

None of us just pop into the world fully formed, so it’s the little facts that make us.

Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains...

Man is originally characterized by his “search for meaning” rather than his “search for himself.” The more he forgets himself—giving himself to a cause or another person—the more human he is. And the more he...

A man who rightly governs self, may also govern family without the crippling cowardice, crutch of control.

inherited by the world,interconnected by the youth;Mind,Body,Spirit.Believe in it

Make sure that the your remote control always lies with your own self and not in someone else’s hands.

Your relationship to yourself is and always will be directly reflected in all your relationships with others.

I’ve come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are.

You can always tell the heart of man by what he do, and by what he don’t do…

Badness is of the self, the one, the you or me on our oddy knockies, and that self is made by old Bog or God and is his great pride and radosty. But the not-self...

We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.

She discovered that underneath the aspect of the Rumpled Porcupine, a tortured Marxist was at war with an impossible, incurable Romantic – who forgot the candles, who broke the wine glasses, who forgot the ring....

On some levels, our sport is self-policing in that if you make a mistake and get into someone, chances are they’ll settle the score. It may not happen at the next race, or the one...

By identifying with a particular name that belongs to a particular body and mind, the self begins the process of creating a separate identity. Add in a complex jumble of ideas, beliefs, and opinions, along...

Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense...

for whatever we lose (like a you or a me)it’s always ourselves we find in the sea.

Mas cada um de nós é um ser total do mundo, e da mesma forma como o corpo integra toda a trajetória da evolução, remontando ao peixe e mesmo a antes, levamos em nossa alma...

I’d rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.

Can’t get away from your own self.

I needed a break…from myself.

The flight away from self to God is not a “forgetting self” in the sense that man thereby loses himself. Rather, in the experience of the Spirit there is bestowed on man the deepest possible...

You’re a Genius all the time

We may take it that the world is undoubtedly itself [i.e., is indistinct from itself], but, in any attempt to see itself, as an object, it must, equally, undoubtedly act so as to make itself...

‘Metals’ has partly been about me regaining my self respect and I feel like I’m growing the muscles I want to grow again.

I was the chain that bit into my ankle, and I was the ruthless guard that never slept.

What’s it like to figure out you’re gay and then begin the process of coming out? Well, for most of my life, I felt doomed. I could imagine no path that would allow me to...

We sit to make life meaningful. The significance of our life is not experienced in striving to create some perfect thing. We must simply start with accepting ourselves. Sitting brings us back to actually who...

When we let ourselves shine, we eclipse the realms of ordinary. This light, this spiritual life-force, effortlessly radiates within us and to those around us, illuminating the potentiality of our soul’s yearning–which is, in essence–the...

Buddha is someone with a very advanced self-concept. His self-esteem is perfect; he has gone beyond doubt; he knows, and he is confident of his knowledge; he expresses himself with conviction. When the Buddha talks...

There’s more than what the eye can see, the heart can love, and the brain can understand.

To know one’s self is wisdom, but not to know one’s neighbors is genius.

Time is a continuous journey of self-creation.

You only exist because of the agreements you made with yourself and with the other humans around you.

Sorry,” she said, heading for the bow, where a spot of sun looked inviting. ”Oh, also, about that blog? Just so you know, my dads know a lot of gay lawyers. Bitches will take your...

The woman I was yesterday, introduced me to the woman I am today; which makes me very excited about meeting the woman I will become tomorrow.

The “self,” it seems today, is at the core of the nation’s worldview rather than others (the common good), or God.

Stand up for who you are. Reject the status quo!

How wonderful to know that when Jesus Christ speaks to you and to me, he enables you to understand yourself, to die to that self because of the cross, and brings the real you to...

I am afraid of darkness… even though it knows me it loves me.

The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less alone. (Pause.) In a way. (Pause.) I love to get up and move about in it,...