Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self. – Guru Nanak
We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are. – Harold Bloom
My real self, the self I have always been from a child, is a loner and nerd, slightly overweight, with a very heavy fringe. That is who I was as a kid. I don’t think I will ever be anything other than that. – Hayley Atwell
If you skew the endocrine system, you lose the pathways to self. When endocrine patterns change, it alters the way you think and feel. One shift in the pattern tends to trip another. – Hilary Mantel
Acted drama requires surrender of one’s self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops. – George Pierce Baker
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies. – Henry Adams
I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self. – George Grosz
I definitely have a shareholders’ perspective. I’m not doing that altruistically. I’m doing that because it’s in my own self interest to do it. I think that’s good for my other shareholders because they go along with me: If I do well for myself, then they do well for themselves. – Harold Simmons
As I got older, I became so self conscious about my birthmark that I was very hesitant about going to a pool party, because I didn’t want my makeup to rub off. – Hannah Storm
When a young non-white male is stopped and searched at the whim of a police officer, his idea of personal space, privacy and self esteem are shattered, to say nothing of his Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment protections. The damage goes deep quickly and stays. Stop & frisk, as well as a tactic, is also an incitement. – Henry Rollins
I think I’m much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that’s something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me. – Hugo Weaving
On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger. – Hu Shih
It is very hard to separate one’s self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding. – Halle Berry
There’s a confidence and sense of self that comes with age that I didn’t anticipate. – Jillian Michaels
For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, it’s perfect. You don’t have to come with anything. What you bring to something is the art. That’s where it’s found. It’s found within you. – Jeff Koons
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution. – Igor Stravinsky
The original ‘Artist’s Way’ focused on the nurturing of the self. The ‘Artist’s Way for Parents’ focuses both on nurturing the self and nurturing the children in our care. – Julia Cameron
If you take my own life, the longer you stay in a country, you almost lose your former self and become this third-party person who is caught in between two worlds. – Greg Poehler
The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true inner selves and the outside world is pervasive but highly questionable. The boundaries of the self might well be more porous than we ordinarily think. – Julian Baggini
What I need in order to stay creative and centered is a certain amount of distance from the maddening crowd. You cease to be your best self if you’re running too fast. – James Redfield
Our inclination is to show our Lord only what we feel comfortable with. But the more we dare to reveal our whole trembling self to him, the more we will be able to sense that his love, which is perfect love, casts out all our fears. – Henri Nouwen
Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that’s what we all do, cradle to grave. The self is a story we tell. – James Gleick
You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that’s what walking through New York on a June evening feels like – you feel like it’s Friday, and you’re 17 years old. – John Darnielle
Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored. – John Berger