Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Selfhood. 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 Selfhood Quotes And Sayings by 91 Authors including Kilroy J. Oldster,Jesse Kellerman,Virginia Woolf,Debasish Mridha,Julia Alvarez for you to enjoy and share.

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One of the salient facts of a self is that a person is constantly undergoing a series of actions in the immediacy of time that they must later reflect upon and synthesize new experiences, thoughts, feelings, and mental impression along with their latent memories into a collaborative sense of being.
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Science, literature, and common sense tell us that the self is a fickle thing, subject to revision in real time, and that the chasm that exists between any two people exists inside each and every one of us.
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But how describe the world seen without a self?
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To feel worthy, value others.
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Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.
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Without a true self, a person can not go on living. It is like the ground we stand on. Without the ground, we can build nothing.
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Embracing human frailty, fallibility, and heartbreaking aloneness is crucial for any person seeking to attain self-actualization and self-realization.
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The self. What is the self? Everything you are, without others, without friends or strangers or lovers or children or streets to walk or food to eat or mirrors in which to see yourself. But are you anyone without others?
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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.
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Fame of self: Which matters more? Self or wealth: Which is more precious? Gain or loss: Which is more painful?
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I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self.
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Self is found in knowledge, devotion and concentration, in integrity, purity, moderation, self-control and intelligence.
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What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Self-emancipation
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Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
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It is man's foremost duty to awaken the understanding of the inner self and to know his own real inner greatness. Once he knows his true worth, he can know the worth of others.
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Realizing your true self apart from the mind-created ego self is profoundly liberating, and when you do, suddenly the universe appears immensely blissful.
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Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
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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.
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To understand ourself, we must understand our "selves," or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.
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Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction.
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We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.
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We develop a sense of self by coming to see ourselves in the reflections of how others see us - what they reflect back about us, how they view us, what kind of person they think we are and so on.
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Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.
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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.
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The self is a perpetually recreated neurobiological state.
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We talk about self-expression but need to pause and remember that self-expression requires a self to express ...
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The self is the modern substitute for the soul.
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When our identity comes from the self, then we keep our energy to ourselves. We feel energetic, we feel powerful, and we experience youthful vigor.
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The sense of self is one of the obscurations that prevents us from seeing clearly, the idea that there is a self or that we are anyone in particular.
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The idea self is sacred soul.
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Self love is the instrument of our preservation.
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To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired goods and the pursuit of artificially framed styles of life. ( ... ) Not just lifestyles, but self-actualisation is packaged and distributed according to market criteria.
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Self is the soul minus God.
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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.
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Egolessness is contentment.
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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.
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The self, however, is a living organism, and refuses to be denied without a struggle.
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That nagging state of constant thought that exists somewhere between the ears and behind the eyes is the self.
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Going beyond our ordinary concept of self is what always brings us the greatest sense of joy in life. Going beyond our own boundaries brings us an ecstatic awareness of how we are truly created in connection with all that is.
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Self-love is self liberation
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Life is beyond self.
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unconscious self-love
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To trust one's mind and to know that one is worthy of happiness is the essence of self-esteem.
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Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.
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It is not so much that we have a self, it's that we do self-ing.
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Self-love is always the mainspring, more or less concealed, of our actions; it is the wind which swells the sails, without which the ship could not go.
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The self in the twentieth century is a voracious nought which expands like the feeding vacuole of an amoeba seeking to nourish and inform its own nothingness by ingesting new objects in the world but, like a vacuole, only succeeds in emptying them out.
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The self requires a story.
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Self-possession depends on its environment.
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Understanding who you are within comes through self- awareness and self-education
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One of my problems is to find the self.
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The urge to transcend self-conscious selfhood is, as I have said, a principal appetite of the soul.
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The self-life manifests itself in self-indulgences, such as self-love, self-will, self-seeking, self-pride ... It takes self-denial to turn off the television and spend [time] in prayer ... and read the Scriptures ... the only object in life is that Christ may be honored.
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The self is a thought that tells itself that thought is a self.
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Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization.
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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.
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What do you love even more than you love your own ego?
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The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.
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The self can only be realized, and the realization can only happen, out of personal experience.
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Meeting the "self" activates the transformation of human consciousness,
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What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?
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Love is the greatest self.
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A solid sense of self develops from confronting yourself, challenging yourself to do what's right, and earning your own self-respect.
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Happiness without Guilt.
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The self is me, the me is I, and that's all that's left.
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The self is like a pimping blackmailing chauffeur who gets you from here to there on word lines.
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Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.
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The self is a repeatedly reconstructed biological state.
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Sometimes, we do not believe in ourselves until someone else reveals that, deep inside of us, something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, love, or any other experience that reveals our human spirit.
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The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement, and that just thrilled me.
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In keeping with something called self-determination theory, which holds that human beings need three basic things in order to be content: they need to feel competent at what they do; they need to feel authentic in their lives; and they need to feel connected to others.
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A person's self-concept is the core of his personality.
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A crucial element of the real self is its unconditional acceptance of itself.
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From the moment we are born our culture encourages us to believe that outer well-being is the source of inner fulfillment ... Wherever we turn the principle is confirmed, encouraging us to become 'human havings' and 'human doings' rather than human beings.
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Self-giving is the only pathway to a meaningful life in this world and is the habit of heart that leads us into the world to come, but it is the opposite of the egocentric grasping we see increasingly around us.
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Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old.
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Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be.
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The moment you have a self at all, there is a possibility of putting yourself first - wanting
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The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.
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Today, many people not only take the self for granted but struggle mightily to connect it to anything larger. In Lincoln's time, the idea of the self had the power - tinged with uncertainty, even with danger - of something emerging and ascending.
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The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. To realize one's Personal Legend is a person's only real obligation. All things are one.
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Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence.
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the natural condition of the human ego: that it is empty, painful, busy and fragile.
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To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility ...
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The self is a
self-made
Procrustean bed
of little comfort
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Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be.
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Contacting and living from our True Self is the central task of personal growth.
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Self-seeking is the gate by which a soul departs from peace; and total abandonment to the will of God, that by which it returns.
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We first develop the Ego, then encounter the Soul, and finally give birth to a unique sense of Self.
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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.
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Without self-expression, life lacks spontaneity and joy. Without service to others, it lacks meaning and purpose.
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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.
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[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.
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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.
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To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.
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We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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Self-satisfaction is the ultimate thing one can achieve in life.
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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.
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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.