Bases Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

What has to be given up is not the I, but that drive for self-affirmation which impels man to flee from the unreliable, unsolid,…

— Martin Buber

The place where even the slightest trace of the 'I' does not exist, alone is Self.

— Ramana Maharshi

“Letting go of "stuff" allowed the world to collapse behind me as I moved, so I became nothing more or less than who I…

— Dee Williams

I often think that at the center of me is a voice that at last did split, a house in my heart so invaded…

— Lorrie Moore

“With my own hands, I had to construct this thing I called ‘I’ –or, rather, make the things that constituted me.”

— Haruki Murakami

I saw that all aspects of my life had been pulling me out of balance because I hadn't perceived them as part of a…

— Brenda Strong

“There is no "I" as such apart from others.”

— Gyomay M Kubose

In retrospect, I should not have let myself be molded as much as I did.

— Jani Lane

When you say 'I' and 'my' too much, you lose the capacity to understand the 'we' and 'our'.

— Steve Maraboli

“At that time the individual did not exist. There was not an awareness of a distinction between “I” and “you”. The birth of I…

— Gao Xingjian

But then, how could you have any self-respect knowing that you didn't believe in anything exactly? How did you embrace what was yours if…

— Kiran Desai

From quite early on, I had this idea of compartmentalised identities - 'This is how you are with your mum, and this is how…

— Russell Brand