4,826 Quotes About Self

Perhaps this general degradation was the result of too much crowding, too little privacy, too much noise. You couldn't be decent if you weren't intelligent; you couldn't be intelligent if you couldn't think—and who could think in all this racket? Add the stench to the confusion of cramped quarters, and who could be self-respecting?

The thing that I’m most likely to collapse under is not the weight of the stresses that stand around me, but the ego that sits within me.

If you will read and listen, you will admit a multiplicity of voices and points of view, consider them with some humility, allow them gracious entrance however strident or discordant some of them may sound, then you will grow and change, and each of these voices will become a constituent part of who you become, an atom of growing being. It is literature and only literature than can do this.

Be yourself.

পণ্ডিত বলছেন-বুড়ো চন্দ্রটা, নিষ্ঠুর চতুর হাসি তার,মৃত্যুদূতের মতো গুঁড়ি মেরে আসছে সেপৃথিবীর পাঁজরের কাছে।একদিন দেবে চরম টান তার সাগরে পর্বতে;মর্তলোকে মহাকালের নূতন খাতায়পাতা জুড়ে নামবে একটা শূন্য,গিলে ফেলবে দিনরাতের জমাখরচ;মানুষের কীর্তি হারাবে অমরতার ভান,তার ইতিহাসে লেপে দেবেঅনন্ত রাত্রির কালি।

My sense of self hinges upon the belief that what I do matters. That belief has compelled me to venture far from home life, and to immerse myself in the lives of strangers in the hope that my work will have an impact and connect people in some intangible way, that I can contribute some greater good.

...the other's self, that enormous hulking thing each possessed, that a self of course is not inconsequential. p124

The self can watch itself becoming lazy, or non-watchful; this is an asset that can make both for humor and profound well-being.

What I am is what the LORD GOD has made of me.