64 Quotes About Sense-of-self

They didn't realize that her clumsiness was not the ordinary kind, not poor coordination. It was just because she wasn't sure where the edges of her body ended and the rest of the world began.

I had the strangest feeling -- like I had lost something without ever really having it in the first place -- that I wasn't what I once was, and wasn't at all what I was meant to be. The sensation made me feel hollow down to my bones.

The greatest freedom in this world is a sense of self detached from appearances so that we may sacrifice today’s comforts for tomorrow’s opportunities.

I was the same as you: less a person and more a hole cut away from everything.

Beautiful moments in life need no words for description. Living those moments and feeling the beauty suffices.

When our thoughts are stammering in our mind, and memorial failure dumbs down our passion for life, a deep dive in the brainwaves can be the lever that lifts our sense of self. ("Walking down the memory lane" )

To accept one's past - one's history - is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it.

If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.

Other people cannot see what I see whenever I look into your father's face, for behind your father's face as it is today are all those other faces which were his.