Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light..
Love is not about others; love is a practice of self-mastery..
The more a human being feels himself a self, tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection, the more drastically he steps out ….
The question I try and ask myself when I consider whether or not to train more is what is my body craving and what is my body ready to absorb? Someti….
A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack.
To trap one's self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside..
My real self is probably more creative and more frightening than any sort of drink or drug-induced state..
I get self-conscious, but you have to just embrace it and go with it..
Embracing and rejecting tradition, bound and liberated by faith, torn between obscurantism and reason, self-assured and self-critical, they were a ka….
We're killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and excuses..
Scientists are human-they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process..
Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theolo….
Much of your pain is self-chosen..
No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you'….
Most of the time, writing is a lot of fun, and not a small amount of self-medication..
There’s only one basic principle of self-defense- you must apply the most effective weapon, as soon as possible, to the most vulnerable target..
No god save self, that is the way to live..
I'm much more of a risk taker. I'm more fearless now than when I was 18. I was much more self-aware and I cared too much about what people thought of….
To laugh is to risk appearing a fool, to weep is to risk appearing too sentimental, to reach out for another is to risk involvement, and to expose fe….
Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) e….
A lover cannot be chosen a la smorgasbord. A lover has to be chosen from soul-craving. To choose just because something mouthwatering stands before o….