I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you’re older, I think, is that you really must make the self. – Mary McCarthy
Girls’ inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering. – Elizabeth Berkley
You have to find out who you are aside from what the media say you are. If you’ve become reliant on them for kind of a sense of self, then you’re really screwed. – Daniel Radcliffe
I have never known a really chic woman whose appearance was not, in large part, an outward reflection of her inner self. – Mainbocher
The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit. – Paramahansa Yogananda
If I was to meet my eight-year-old self, I would say, ‘Don’t listen to what they say about you. Wear your anorak with pride!’ – Peter Capaldi
Certainly I’m still mining my experiences as a journalist. I think it’s no coincidence that all three of my novels basically are about how people act in a time of catastrophe. Do they go to their best self or their worst self? – Geraldine Brooks
The present practice is to impress one’s own discoveries, opinions and principles on the child by constantly directing his actions. The last thing to be realised by the educator is that he really has before him an entirely new soul, a real self whose first and chief right is to think over the things with which he comes in contact. – Ellen Key
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. – George Gurdjieff
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self. – Francis Bacon
Christ removed self as the force in His perfect life. It was, ‘Not my will, but thine be done.’ – Ezra Taft Benson
I think there’s a natural link between the fact that our self is a story that we make up and that we’re drawn to stories. It resonates, in a way. – Mohsin Hamid
My friends tell me that I’ve calmed down, that I seem more centered. I don’t know, I think my inner self was more hollow before, which made me more scattered, and more needy to get laughs. – Chris Kattan
There is no separation between mind and body… Self and other co-arise and fall away all the time. – Deepak Chopra
On ‘Into The Wild’ I spent months risking my life and on ‘Speed Racer’ I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination. – Emile Hirsch
In ‘A Boy’s Own Story’ and ‘Jack Holmes and His Friend,’ my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory. – Edmund White
No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family. – Peace Pilgrim
The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other. – Daniel Kahneman
Robots will someday, or maybe, wake up. They may be really smart. They may be as creative, smart and capable as human beings, and fully conscious, and self discerning with free will. – David Hanson
It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq. – Douglas Hurd
Psychologists and economists love to talk about the notion of two selves: present self and future self. It’s a nice way to explain the tendency to have one preference about the future, but a very different preference when the future becomes the present. – Daniel Goldstein
I think 60 is when many people hit their prime. We elect many of our presidents in their 60s. At that age, people are full of ideas and their best self. I wanted to dig into my potential and bring out my best self. – Diana Nyad
Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it’s like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory. – Dan Chaon
