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Self Quotes



"Unless the Self is known, the power of the Self (swa satta) cannot arise."



"I' is Absolute, it has been possessed by the ghosts of 'my'!"



"One achieves the Self-state (swa-artha) while searching for the highest truth (param-artha). The search for the highest truth is solely for the purpose of attaining the Self, and once the Self is attained there is no need to search for the highest truth."


"Healthy self-esteem rests upon a strong foundation of core values and an inclination to act and speak in alignment with those values."


"The only person you should compete with is you."



"One should take care of one's own [True] Self and do supervision of everything else."


"I have a funny side. I have a soft and sympathetic side. I have a serious side, and a seriously romantic side. I have lots of sides; it's the main course I haven't quite figured out."


"Stop chasing another busy self to become. Your real self is idle waiting to be lived... Go, take up your real self!"


"Self-discipline, self-realization and self-reliance."


"We all must determine what types of anatomical castanets vest in our central core. For aught we know, we still tend to think of ourselves as a complete and fixed product. In reality, analogous to an unfinished paper, working from the inside out, we are retooling ourselves every day whether we recognize the minor or major tinkering taking place or not. In a neurological sense, the brain is constantly working to build and rebuild itself. In a psychological sense, every day the human mind is altering who we are. We constantly take in new information that modifies and enhances our understanding of the world and our place in the environment. Every day we are using the sense of self and our accumulated knowledge to adapt to our world and modify our thinking and behavior."



"The self is the only thing you can ever truly know."


"It's time that I stop referring to myself, thinking about myself, planning for myself, according to the gridlines and the timelines and the guidelines of people. I will expand in this universe, I will not stay on the lines nor within the lines written by this world."


"Honestly, the point is I no more expect you to acknowledge or respect my feelings, there ends your story! HAPPY ME!"


"You are worth the investment so spend the time, money and resources on you. You matter. When you're strong, healthy and happy, those you love most will also benefit."


"Affirmation: What most fulfils & energizes me - mind, body, spirit - is what manifests in my life."


"Who are you? What are you? Why are you?"


"Once I thought it delightful and astonishing to find a present so big that it only went halfway into the stocking. Now I am delighted and astonished every morning to find a present so big that it takes two stockings to hold it, and then leaves a great deal outside; it is the large and preposterous present of myself."


"You have to validate yourself first, and then you will receive the much-deserved healing validation from the rest of the world."


"Always be true to yourself, you matter the most."


"Having dignity doesn't require you to fall out of love with someone. You can love someone your entire life and not been in their life. It simply means you won't allow their actions or inactions to guide your future. The moment you feel derailed from your life purpose, in limbo or have to sell your worth, you have crossed over from love to desperation."


"Your EGO feeds on the volume of the mental clutter, the greater the intensity the more crystallized is your EGO. Man dominates and exherts his mental superiority over others. Be Aware! Stop Mental Clutter, Kill EGO, Be YOU!"


"Appreciate yourself for who you're not for what you're."


"Funny how in a material world full of pundits and economists obsessed with assets and liabilities -personally, economically and globally - few speak about the greatest of all these YOU."


"Don't behave like your heart and mind are strangers to you; they are yours, don't depend on others to understand them, you got to understand them."


"No one can set your level of worthiness except you."


"Look well into thyself there is a source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search there."


"When you are looking at a person, you are not seeing him; you are seeing yourself through his reflective mirror."


"Embrace the magnificence that is inside you."


"Never seek permission to be yourself."


"Time spent in assessing one's self, is the time spent best."
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