Self Quotes

Just be your authentic self because there's nothing sexier or more beautiful than that.

Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.

I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.

To ignore one's spiritual self is unsettling, to say the least. That's a very profound outlook on it.

The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self.

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

One of my problems is to find the self.

It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.

I just feel lucky to have grown up where I did because I think it gave me a nice base. Hollywood can really mess with your sense of self and I feel like coming from the South keeps me pretty grounded.

I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can express himself, and all his life he has only one self.

The authentic self is the soul made visible.

The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.

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 desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.

My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.

Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.

The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

My bravery however was the effect of assurance for could I have believed the current report, I should have fled as fast as any man, no man can possibly have a greater reluctance to an intimacy with Sir William Howe than my Self.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.

Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.