Quotes about The self

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It is important to realize that we so often define ourselves by what is in opposition to ourselves. — Chris Matakas, #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times
This constant mental diatribe and the frustrations, worries, insecurities and muscular tension that ensues are the self. — Chris Matakas, #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times
That nagging state of constant thought that exists somewhere between the ears and behind the eyes is the self. — Chris Matakas, #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times
We tend to view ourselves as this, lying in contradiction with everything that is not ourselves, that. — Chris Matakas, #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times
Believing or not makes no difference to the Absolute of Things That Be. But it does to you. For you shall live and die a — Fakeer Ishavardas
The more we have outside ourselves the harder it is to get inside ourselves. — Chris Matakas, #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times
If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to wors — Fulton J. Sheen
A life of joy awaits the man who sits alone quietly in a room and determines what he himself believes rather than simply — Chris Matakas, #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times
The self is a self-made Procrustean bedof little comfort — Ulf Wolf
An eminent philosopher among my friends, who can dignify even your ugly furniture by lifting it into the serene light of — George Eliot
Hence it is a superficial view (which presumably has never seen a person in despair, not even one’s own self) when it is — Søren Kierkegaard
We are the mountains we must cross. — Marty Rubin
The beauty of theatre was that it was a moving, changing art form—only those who watch the same performance night in aft — John M. Keller
Conflict is the essence of the self. — J.Krishnamurti
The embodiment of his mystic precepts, he appeared at any given moment to be on the verge of an amazing disintegration, — Thomas Ligotti, Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
Thus he has two standpoints from which he can consider himself...: first, as belonging to the world of sense, under the — Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
Once I knew, then I forgot. It was as if I had fallen asleep in a field only to discover at waking that a grove of trees — Charles Simic, The World Doesn't End