114 Self Quotes to share with friends and relatives

The mirror will only lie, when you look at it through a mask. – Anthony Liccione

Your burden is of false self-identificationsâ€”abandon them all. – Nisargadatta Maharaj

How easy it is to be “deep”: all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws. – E.M. Cioran

[E]very donkey who ever peered at himself in the water of the stream he was crossing has enjoyed the sight and been sure he was a handsome horse. – Gustave Flaubert, letter to Louise Colet, 1846 October 7th, translated by Franci

I like too many things and get all confused and hung up running from one falling star to another till I drop. – Jack Kerouac, On the Road #infj

I know not what phantom we take for self…. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

Sometimes you have to breakdown before you can breakthrough. – Marilyn Ferguson (1938–2008)

Take your work seriously, but never yourself. – Margot Fonteyn

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

Your spirit is the true shield. – Morihei Ueshiba

No matter what you do in life, a part of you still sits at a curbside, still hearing the drumbeat of a distant parade, still waiting for it to turn the corner. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys. – Doug Horton

When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

We all know the part of us that needs to be harnessed. It takes someone else to know the part of us that needs to be set free. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep. Nay, and when I walk alone in a beautiful Orchard, if my Thoughts are some part of the Time taken up with strange Occurrences, I some part of the Time call them back again to my Walk, or to the Orchard, to the Sweetness of the Solitude, and to my self. – Michel de Montaigne, “Of Experience,” translated from French by Charles Cotton

Just let awareness have its way with you completely. – Scott Morrison

We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves that we have no great ones. – FranÃ§ois VI de la Rochefoucault, Maxims

My flag is raised high today. For others to see, sure. But more so to find which way my wind is blowing. Almost time to chart a course. – Jeb Dickerson, jebdickerson.com

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man â€” the biography of the man himself cannot be written. – Mark Twain, Autobiography, 1924

The world is not outside you. – Ramana Maharshi