Quotes about self

To be able to see one’s own faults this is known as Enlightened vision (Samkit Self-realization right belief).

[E]ach of our voices has something unique to say. Not only should I not mold my life to the demands of external conformity I can't even find the model by which to live outside myself. I can only find it within.

Your first thought is what you've been conditioned to think what you think next defines who you are.

Of course love is blind it keeps me blind to myself.

Listen to your instincts you will make the best-choices.

Success - is not about defeating others but about defeating oneself

We were revisionists what we revised was ourselves.

My mediocrity is no secret My battles with it are

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...

Your past isn’t there to decide who you are it’s there to guide you to a better version of yourself.

Do not wait for someone else to validate your existence it is your own responsibility.

To forget the whole world is easy to make the whole world forget you is hard.

Let there be no scales to weigh your un-known treasureAnd seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line.For self is a sea boundless and measureless.

If only youcould see me as the Devil does: palatable & raw chasing a chance blue moon

Feelings are something you have not something you are.

Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor within the former raged against him.

Pure Soul and circumstances there are only these two but the disturbance of egoism does not allow it to be at peace.

The ‘knowledge’ (gnan) that was resulting into ‘the things to be known’ (gneya) when that ‘knowledge’ results in the ‘Knower’ (gnata) this is known as Self-Realization [Atma Gnan].

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

If I can be my crazy, wild self in front of a person, and he still likes me, that's romantic.

Anger can be a useful emotion; it's built into our genetic code to help with self preservation. But it can also be destructive, even when it is justified.

Loneliness is the poverty of self solitude is the richness of self.

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

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.

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

Loving oneself isn't hard, when you understand who and what 'yourself' is. It has nothing to do with the shape of your face, the size of your eyes, the length of your hair or the quality of your clothes. It's so beyond all of those things and it's what gives life to everything about you. Your own self is such a treasure.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

There was a way in which my grandmother's true self was not these guests' business no one's true self was the business of more than a very small number of family members or close friends.

Don't hate the media become the media.

Self-destruction is an art cursed are the exponents.

In the sacredness of pureness a spark of divinity manifest.

Where the Self [Soul] is forgotten that place is not ours.

When the tendencies (vruti) that were wandering around since time immemorial come within & enter into the Self’s (Soul’s) abode it is known as freedom from all wanderings (nivruti).

The person whose attention is in the ‘pure Soul’ is known as a renowned person. No one in the past had been celebrated as a famous person they were called renowned persons. To be famous is the result of an ‘above normal’ state.

Gnani Purush’ [the enlightened one] has become ‘Soul’ (Atma Self) while staying with the body.

How much straight forward you are that much bliss of the Self (Samadhi) will prevail within you.

There are two types of spiritual practices. One spiritual practice is done to attain the final goal (experience of pure Soul) and the other type of spiritual practice is done for the sake of doing the spiritual practice. The practice that is performed with the intent of attaining the final goal is the last final type of spiritual practice.

Worldly life is not an impediment your obstinacies and your ignorance of the self are only the impediments.

The Enlightened one (Gnani Purush) never wastes his time in counting money focus of the awareness of the self (upayog) is wasted in doing this. One's focused awareness (upayog) is where he has ‘interest’!

Happiness that comes and never leaves it is called the bliss of the Soul.

All matters being spiritual man or woman can only find peace when peace is realized from within.

Where there is (consideration for) merit karma and demerit karma true religion is indeed not present there. There is no merit or demerit karma in true religion. True religion is where merit and demerit karma are considered worthy of abandonment and that which is worthy of acceptance is one’s Self-form.

Whatever one does without the right belief (samkit - Self-realization) will lead to karmic bondage. Even when he gives to charity or shows kindness it is all karma bondage.

Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.

In our society, the ideal self is bold, gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight. We like to think that we value individuality, but mostly we admire the type of individual who's comfortable 'putting himself out there.'

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

Autoimmunity is probably the next frontier. The majority of cases of autoimmune disease result from a complex genetic problem that has environmental influences. It is a colossal task for the immune system to maintain tolerance to self and yet be ready to react to everything in the world around us.

Who am I? The great inquiry indeed.

We all have an innate feeling of being separate from the world, peering out at life from behind our own little self. But how can we truly be separate from the same world that created us? You can no more disconnect from the universe and it's inhabitants than a wave can extricate itself from the ocean.

Narrative writing represents a personal attempt to quantify and understand the psychological singularities behind the author’s personality traits as delineated by winnowed list of formative life experiences.

Understanding of oneself is the first act in establishing a transformative philosophy for living a vivid and a reflective existence. Knowing thy self is essential to designing and instigating a meaningful life that is self-directed instead of exclusively controlled by innate traits and external determinates.

Racism is not simply about one man's irrational hatred of another but his self-hatred, doubting his own moral goodness and purpose.

Never force yourself on another. If you do this, then this is you trampling on your own dignity without the external help.

Today is a good day to tackle a fear and make yourself proud.

Love yourself and the beauty of your uniqueness.

Great spirit, Great soul.

For some, life may be a playground to undermine the brainwaves of others or simply a vainglorious game with an armory of theatrics, illustrating only bleak self-deception, haughty narcissism and dim deficiency in empathy. ("Another empty room")

Enjoy being you. Have fun. And be different.

As we go through life, we essentially grow a personality. Our personality branches out in many directions to assist us organize our thoughts, feelings, values, ideas, and coping mechanisms. Our exhibited behavior – the way we organize and deal with life – becomes an external representation of our central self.

Love in the service of self is greed in disguise.

Rather than writing about my experiences with other people, 'Ugly Cherries' is the first song I've ever written about myself. It's a confrontation: an attempt to unpack my own queerness with humor and self care.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

I'm just trying to work out a way to be a singer and to create cool content. I'm willing to do that as an entertainer. But I'm not willing to give up my actual self.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

It's all about communication and a dialogue between individuals - get rid of the labels, get rid of the shame, get rid of the stigmas and just be your most authentic self.

The authentic self is the soul made visible.

Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.

There is no such thing as disappointment for those who continue to cherish the selflessness of which is born the noblest inner self. There is no such thing as failure for those who invest in the potentialities of the Ideal of the Soul.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.

You do not truly know yourself until you have learned to appreciate others.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too and that maketh him very wary.

A sick man that gets talking about himself a woman that gets talking about her baby and an author that begins reading out of his own book never know when to stop.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered it is something moulded.

Egotism: the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

Every one is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage he won't encounter many rivals.

If you can't bite don't show your teeth.

Know him know me.

Man who man would be must rule the empire of himself.

No man does anything from a single motive.

Nobody can honestly think of himself as a strong character because however successful he may be in overcoming them he is necessarily aware of the doubts and temptations that accompany every important choice.

We carry with us the wonders we seek without us.

What the collective age wants allows and approves is the perpetual holiday from the self.

When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain?

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.

With every physical pain my moral fibre unravels a little.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of self.

One may understand the cosmos but never the ego the self is more distant than any star.