Self Quotes

“for me
obedience to another is the decay
of self”
― Charles Bukowski, Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit

“Self Love is a romance of its own kind. Remember self love does not imply being selfish and just thinking about your own happiness. I believe it is an idea which revolves around acceptance of yourself as you are so that you can accept others as they are. It is a principle of loving your own being so that you are full of love and positivity. It is about coming to peace with your own self and letting go of your past wounds, it is about healing. Self Love is about becoming a butterfly from a caterpillar. It is about personal development, it is about an evolution. Self Love is about seeing yourself through your own eyes.”
― Jasz Gill

“Do not wait for someone else to validate your existence; it is your own responsibility.”
― Jasz Gill

“An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face.”
― George Orwell, Why I Write

“Men have been taught that the ego is the synonym of evil, and selflessness the ideal of virtue. But the creator is the egotist in the absolute sense, and the selfless man is the one who does not think, feel, judge or act. These are functions of the self.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“This is me today, but take heed; it is not the same me as yesterday, and it will not be the same me tomorrow.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“She was a blank, a wordless being. She was a hole in the universe.”
― Jessica Khoury, Vitro

“In Hindu parlance he had 'realised the Self'; that is to say, he had realised by direct experience that nothing existed apart from an indivisible and universal consciousness which was experienced in its unmanifest form as beingness or awareness and in its manifest form as the appearance of the universe.”
― David Godman

“Once we are lost unto ourselves, everything else is lost to us.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“The mighty question arises upon us, what is one's own real self? It certainly is not what we think we are and ought to be.”
― D. H. Lawrence

“There, sitting cross-legged on the floor, he stared absently at his legs. They began to look strange. They no longer seemed to grow from his trunk at all, but rather, completely unconnected, they sprawled rudely before him. When he got this far, he realized something he had never noticed before—that his legs were unbearably hideous. With hair growing unevenly and blue streaks running rampant, they were terribly strange creatures.”
― Sōseki Natsume, And Then

“Pursue your dreams. You will be amazed about what you can achieve it.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“We only betray ourselves. No one is betrayed except by himself. One way to betray yourself is to try to be too many people at once.

"How many people should a person try to be in your opinion?"

One at the most. Most people don't even succeed in that.”
― MacDonald Harris, The Balloonist

“when you expect something from your self and your own self disappoints you.... this is what i call a real disappointment . The worst disappointments comes from in-within.”
― Sameh Elsayed

“Nurturing self-confidence is a daily endeavour.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“..it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. It is the unsacrificed self that we must respect in man above all.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“I’m a bit-part actor in my own life”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“You can deceive yourself with truth too. That's an even more dangerous dream.”
― Erich Maria Remarque

“If, to him, love was a celebration of one’s self and of existence—then, to the self-haters and life-haters, the pursuit of destruction was the only form and equivalent of love.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“The greatest victory a person can have is the victory over himself.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“To talk of humans as 'transcendent' is not to ascribe to them spiritual properties. It is, rather, to recognize that as subjects we have the ability to transform our selves, our natures, our world—an ability denied to any other physical being.”
― Kenan Malik

“Buying a book is not enough... You must absorb the knowledge it contains. Your personalized knowledge is not what's on your shelf, but how much you put into yourself!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“I think it is best to know what you are and make peace with it.”
― Sarah McCarry

“Happiness lies with us only. Desire for experiencing interactive pleasure is because of the association with the ignorance (of the Self). The one who does not have such association, he will ‘realize’ true happiness.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“Prove yourself and others wrong everyday by redefining who you THINK you are, through performing actions you would normally deem impossible or uncharacteristic of you.”
― Miya Yamanouchi

“When you realise you are just as ridiculous & just as #special as everyone else, you love them all.”
― Jay Woodman

“We only betray ourselves.”
― MacDonald Harris, The Balloonist

“I am a soul, and I have a body. We don't learn about people by studying their bodies. We learn about people by finding out how they feel, what they think, what they're passionate about, what their worldview is, and so forth.
...So my conclusion is that there's more to me than my conscious life and my body. In fact, I am a 'self,' or an 'I,' that cannot be seen or touched unless I manifest myself through my behavior or my talk. I have free will because I am a 'self,' or a soul, and I'm not just a brain. ~J.P. Moreland, PHD~”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God

“Just like the cast of a great movie and the career of great athletes few success stories are a one man show. Build your team and grow.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Deal lovingly with others and especially yourself”
― TemitOpe Ibrahim