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Joseph CampbellOur life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on.

 - Joseph Campbell

Tags:   character  life  self  

Ralph Waldo EmersonThe only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

 - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tags:   person  self  

Carl JungEverything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

 - Carl Jung

Tags:   irritation  others  self  

BuddhaYou yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

 - Gautama Buddha

Tags:   affection  love  self  

BuddhaNo one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

 - Gautama Buddha

Tags:   Buddhism  self  

BuddhaIf your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

 - Gautama Buddha

Tags:   compassion  self  

OshoNobody can say anything about you. Whatsoever people say is about themselves. But you become very shaky, because you are still clinging to a false center. That false center depends on others, so you are always looking to what people are saying about you. And you are always following other people, you are always trying to satisfy them. You are always trying to be respectable, you are always trying to decorate your ego. This is suicidal. Rather than being disturbed by what others say, you should start looking inside yourself…

Whenever you are self-conscious you are simply showing that you are not conscious of the self at all. You don't know who you are. If you had known, then there would have been no problem-- then you are not seeking opinions. Then you are not worried what others say about you-- it is irrelevant!

When you are self-conscious you are in trouble. When you are self-conscious you are really showing symptoms that you don't know who you are. Your very self-consciousness indicates that you have not come home yet.

 - Osho

Tags:   identity  self  self-conscious  

Salman RushdieWhenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or enemy, mother or friend, those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the different facets of our characters like diamond-cutter's tools. Each such loss is a step leading to the grave, where all versions blend and end.

 - Salman Rushdie

Tags:   death  self  

Michel de MontaigneI study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, it is my physic.

 - Michel de Montaigne

Tags:   self  study  

Friedrich NietzscheWhat, if some day or night, a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you:

'This life, as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh ... must return to you -- all in the same succession and sequence -- even this spider and this moonlight between the trees and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned over again and again -- and you with it, speck of dust!'

Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god, and never have I heard anything more divine!' If this thought were to gain possession of you, it would change you as you are, or perhaps crush you. The question in each and every thing, "do you want this once more and innumerable times more?" would lie upon your actions as the greatest weight. Or how well disposed would you have to become to yourself and to life to crave nothing more fervently than this ultimate eternal confirmation and seal?

 - Friedrich Nietzsche

Tags:   eternity  regret  self  

Thomas SzaszPeople often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

 - Thomas Szasz

Tags:   self