Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Self. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Self Quotes And Sayings by 90 Authors including Max Muller,Ding Ling,William Hung,Erwin Schrodinger,Ramana Maharshi for you to enjoy and share.
Self is the lord of self, who else could be the lord?.Lord-- Max Muller
The self is every person's true enemy.
I can't be anybody but myself.-- William Hung
No self is of itself alone
The place where even the slightest trace of the 'I' does not exist, alone is Self.
I look at myself but I'm missing. I know myself: it's not me.
No one is self-made
We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.
But how describe the world seen without a self?
The self persists like a dying star, In sleep, afraid.
No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction, like other abstractions equally elusive: the individual, the mind, the society
Self is the perception of perception. Beyond self there's no perception of perception.
The self requires a story.
If you're not yourself, who will be?
Self is the soul minus God.
I can only be me.
My self is all to me. I don't have any need of you.
When they say "Be yourself," which self do they mean?-- Rob Brezsny
Know your own Self. Honor your own Self. Find and be who you really are, at the deepest level of your own being. Be present in your own presence. Give yourself the gift of your own Self.
The self can be a cup or a cosmos.
Now, here is the point about the self: it is insatiable. It is always, always hankering. It is what you might call rapacious to a fault. The great flaming mouth to the thing is never in this world going to be stuff full.
I am self-centred. I just adore myself.
To understand ourself, we must understand our "selves," or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.
I am your own self and the self of all beings that exist.
The Self is the one thing you can discover, not by travelling miles, but by being very still inside your own being and saying to the Supreme,
Yes, absorb me.
Your self ... is other people, all the people you're tied to, and it's only a thread.
Self is.
Self is body and bodily
perception. Self is thought, memory,
belief. Self creates. Self destroys.
Self learns, discovers, becomes.
Self shapes. Self adapts. Self
invents its own reasons for being.
To shape God, shape Self.
The self can only be realized, and the realization can only happen, out of personal experience.
I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.
The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.
I liked myself better when I wasn't me.
The central idea of this book is that the self is a process, not a thing or an entity. The self isn't something outside experience, hidden either in the brain or in some immaterial realm.
The true self, once discovered, is the source of creativity, intelligence and personal growth. No external solution has such power.
I gave up myself, but myself did not give up me; and so, I am still myself!
How deeply do any of us know our own selves? Ask yourself. We hold a picture of how we wish to be and hope it goes forever unchallenged. Passing through life never pursuing aspects of our natures with which we'd rather not reckon. Dying strangers to ourselves.
The self ... can split off from itself without being less. You are not a mini self, an adjunct to some super-being, never to share fully in its reality ... you are that superself looking out through only one eye, or using just one finger.
The best self is a good being.
I am my own woman.Woman-- Evita Peron
The self is a perpetually recreated neurobiological state.
The self is too small an object for perpetual enthusiasm.
I was my own person, complete in and of myself.
The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward manifesation of the physical world, including fluctuations which end up as thoughts and actions
Saying that someone is full of themselves is silly. Who else can one be full of ... except self?
All people are self-made. Only the successful people admit it.
The storied self knows that self is not enough.
The power of self goes beyond words. Self confidence, self improvement, self esteem, self enhancement, self love ... Get yourself right first!
Inside the self everyone thinks is actually me. But the true me is
Self is what makes mind think, but never needs the mind.
Self is what makes bodies live, but needs no existence for itself.
Self can be realized; not by knowledge but by revelation.
A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.
Selfie-centered person!
The Self does not move. The world moves in it.
A man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house.
I am not myself.
My thoughts are tangled in words that are not my own.
We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.
SELF
BENEATH THE SURFACE,
VEILED ON PURPOSE,
ALL KNOWING AND GRAND,
DIRECTED, GUIDED, BY THE ETERNAL HAND,
SUSTAINED, FULFILLED, FULL OF LIGHT,
REALIZATION ACHIEVED, BY WILLFUL MIGHT.
I love myself for I am a beloved child of the universe and the universe lovingly takes care of me now.
I am my own person. What I'm doing, I'm happy with it. I'm doing what I want to.
What is self? Self is the mind viewing itself. That's all. The mind stops viewing itself and turns towards infinity. There is no self, there's only infinity.
Self is one, personal and impersonal.
But it is only on the personal level that one comes to know the Self.
When you know the Self, you realize there are two types of knowledge.
First is to know how to exist and second is to know the all-pervading spirit.
The self plays among the waves of existence. It surfaces, it comes up for a while, and then it disappears again.
Find your true self. The old question, asked in many ages, "Who am I?" Once you figure out who am I, and you know who am I, then you have that knowledge of self.
Everyone is a self-made man. Only the successful admit it.
Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most ... is yourself
The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.
A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.
I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul
You are the Self, that perfect immutable Self. Nothing else exists. Nothing else ever existed. Nothing else will ever exist. There is only one Self and you are That. Rejoice!
In knowing you I, discovered my self.
I am myself and I am here.
The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.
The self ... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to die; it is a dramatic effect arising diffusely from a scene that is presented.
I'm a Self-made Woman in Every Sense of the Word
The disease we all have and that we have to fight against all our lives is ... the disease of self ...
I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
To forget the self is to remember that we don't exist alone, but in relation to other people, to other creatures, to the planet, and to the universe.
A self that is very robust, that has many, many levels of organization, from simple to complex, and that functions as a sort of witness to what is going on in our organisms.
It was me, only me. Self-contained, self-reliant, and always, unquestionably self-assured.
The self is a dance, constantly in motion.
The self is the class (not the collection) of the experiences (or autopsychological states). The self does not belong to the expression of the basic experience, but is constructed only on a very high level.
What is your Self? Self is nothing but joy. A joyous person is definitely a person who has got his Self expressing through his joy. Such a person is so joy-giving, so humorous, and never degrading anyone.
It all starts with a tiny, stupid idea, then one thing leads to another, and suddenly, you find something amazing: yourself.
Sometimes all you've got is yourself.-- Abdul Manan
The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.
I believe that even though each person has an individual and unique self, the self means nothing outside the context of community or meaningful contact with other people.
If there is anything about your 'self' of which you can be sure, it is that it is anchored in your own body and yours alone. The person you experience as 'you' is here and now and nowhere else.
I am me and my circumstance
The greatest victory is over self.
Who taught you to hate yourself?
i like myself. when i am myself.
Who are you when you're alone? When no one is watching? What's left then?
If you won't believe in yourself, who will?-- Ishi
Great spirit, great-self.
[We assume] that the self is an actual living thing, but it's not. It's a projection which our clever brains create in order to cheat ourselves from the reality of death.
I consider my selfbeing ... that taste of myself, of I and me above and in all things, which is more distinctive than the taste of ale or alum, more distinctive than the smell of walnutleaf or camphor, and is incommunicable by any means to another man.
The self, however, is a living organism, and refuses to be denied without a struggle.
No matter who you are, you have a giant self.
All I've ever needed is myself.
The self is a repeatedly reconstructed biological state.
If I am not myself, who will I be-- Unknown
From the beginning moments of life, the urges for each of us to become a self in the world are there
in the liveliness of our innate growth energies, in the vitality of our stiffening-away muscles, in our looking eyes, our listening ears, our reaching-out hands.