I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.
Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped - to reach it.
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
It just didn't feel right to let my child scream and holler and thrash by her little self in the dark in her crib when I knew full well that a little rocking in her glider, maybe a song and a sweet nuzzle of her cheek would send her off to dreamland.
Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.
The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.
I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it.
If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.
The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.
The self is hateful.
Trying to get my music performed live by bar bands was a self defeating experience. It really just distracted me from what I should've been doing all along, writing and recording.
I don't think anyone's sexuality needs to be a public issue other than to give others the confidence to love themselves wholeheartedly and to be their true, authentic self without any shame.
A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.
Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.
I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people react to it, and some people are more sturdy than others... I don't think any one faction can be blamed for a person's self destruction - a certain amount of that has to be innate.
But I really believe that when you give people authentic identity, which is what Facebook does, and you can be your real self and connect with real people online, things will change.
Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
To ignore one's spiritual self is unsettling, to say the least. That's a very profound outlook on it.
My passion, personally, is being my true self while inspiring young people who are struggling with their identities to love themselves for who they are.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.
Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.
It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.
The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city with horns blowing, the people yelling things at each other, and the all-in-all violence and chaos of the city. Put that on stage with music, and that's what this is.
You have to have a strong sense of self in this business - otherwise they're going to spit you out.
Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.
I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends.
