4,826 Quotes About Self

...there is no better time to examine and understand one’s selfhood than when it is dissected and hurtling through darkness.

நான் நினைவறிந்த நாள் முதலே என் விழிகள் எட்டும் தொலைவுக்கு அப்பாலுள்ளவற்றை கற்பனையில் கண்டுகொண்டிருந்தவன்

We need dualities or opposites to appreciate, understandand recognize value and distinction in our lives. If we did not have bitter, we could not appreciate sweet....

We always look behind, through, and beyond ourselves, never within.

Though we rush ahead to save our time, we are only what we feel

Make this poor self grow less and less, Be Thou my life and aim ; Oh, make me daily, through Thy grace, More worthy of Thy name.

I am diagonally parked among the vertically parallel people of this horizontal universe.

The interior life is often stupid. Its egoism blinds it and deafens it; its imagination spins out ignorant tales, fascinated. It fancies that the western wind blows on the Self, and leaves fall at the feet of the Self for a reason, and people are watching. A mind risks real ignorance for the sometimes paltry prize of an imagination enriched. The trick of reason is to get the imagination to seize the actual world—if only from time to time.

Even I don’t know myself... In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing different roles and pretending – not so much on stage as in real life...