Different Quote by Marcel Proust

At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that…

— May Sinclair

When the healthy pursuit of self-interest and self-realizatio n turns into self-absorption , other people can lose their intrinsic value in our eyes and…

— Anonymous

Whenever a human being ceases to live for themselves and begins to care about that which is greater than themselves, the personality begins to…

— Andrew Cohen

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

— Baruch Spinoza

“There are very few moments in life when you see yourself for what you are. Not how you'd like to be, or how you…

— Sabine Durrant

Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness

— Bertrand Russell

“When is one considered to be in the awareness of ‘one’s own Self’? It is when all the desires become mild.”

— Dada Bhagwan

States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always makes one…

— Stefan Zweig

It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“The belief in an independently existent self is a mistaken perception with serious consequences, for all afflictions are rooted in a fundamental misconception about…

— Karma Lekshe Tsomo

Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and entertainment are…

— Mary Catherine Bateson

“Intentional actions, repeated over and over, become habits. Habitual ways of thinking, feeling, acting, and reacting construct and compose my sense of of self:…

— David R Loy