1,328 quotes found
“Sometimes we know who we want to be and what we want to do long... long before we know how to get there.”
“We labor under so many illusions about ourselves until we're stripped bare. Being infected, being a vampire, it's always you. Maybe it's more you than ever before. You, distilled. You, boiled down ...”
“It's vital to remember who you really are. It's very important. It isn't a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong.”
“In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain why, but I don't know.”
“How can I accept a limited definable self when I feel, in me, all possibilities?... I never feel the four walls around the substance of the self, the core. I feel only space. Illimitable space.”
“Now comes the hour to choose between being acceptable to others or being acceptable to one's own self, for we must kill our true selves off in order to survive.”
“True emptiness is not empty, but contains all things. The mysterious and pregnant void creates and reflects all possibilities. From it arises our individuality, which can be discovered and develope...”
“I myself am an absolute abyss.”
“Whatever the hell I am, I am Me.”
“Truly, nothing in the world has so occupied my thoughts as this I, this riddle, the fact I am alive, that I am separated and isolated from all others, that I am Siddhartha! And about nothing in the...”
“Our thinking will automatically improve when we remember the words of Paul: 'know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and the spirit of God dwelleth in you?”
“Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.”
“I often think of the image only I can see now, and of which Ive never spoken. Its always there, in the same silence, amazing. Its the only image of myself I like, the only one in which I recognize ...”
“Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.”
“I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis.”
“I'm quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird”
“I suppose it is possible to be all of these things. To sort of fall out of who you are into another, as well as to journey back to some essential sense of self. We only see what we see.He was whate...”
“The philosophical I is not the man, not the human body or the human soul of which psychology treats, but the metaphysical subject, the limit - not a part of the world.”
“When I loved myself enough, I would sometimes wake in the night to music playing within me.”
“As long as you were comfortable with yourself and believed in yourself, then you could just throw out all that nonsense of worrying about your status and "success" and other people's opinions.”
