#self

The reason why I do not know anything about myself, the reason why Siddhartha has remained alien and unknown to myself is due to one thing, to one single thing--I was afraid of myself, I was fleeing from myself. I was seeking Atman, I was seeking Brahman, I was determined to dismember myself and tear away its layers of husk in order to find in its unknown innermost recess the kernel at the heart of those layers, the Atman, life, the divine principle, the ultimate. But in so doing, I was losing myself. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#life

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#self-reliance #self-trust #life

Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart. ↗

— Michael Ende

#human #human heart #itself #life #resides

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#job #than #work #you #your

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself. ↗

— John Fowles

#anyone #except #important #important questions #life

One of my rules is never to look sideways at what other people are doing but instead, do what I feel is right. ↗

— Annie Bryant

#children-s-books #children-s-literature #humanity #life-advice #self-assurance

The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#fate #fear #ignorance #life #order

But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been. ↗

— John H. Reagan

#compel #domination #folly #free #i

We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us. Even after we outgrow some of these others—our parents, for instance—and they disappear from our lives, the conversation with them continues within us as long as we live. ↗

— Charles Taylor

#dialogue #life #parents #self #self-identity

يلزمك أن تُقدر قيمة حياتك ، وتستشعر هدف وجودك على سطح هذه الحياة ، كي تكون رقما صعبا فيها ↗

— كريم الشاذلي

#self-esteem #life