Brain Quote by Mohsin Hamid

Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions…

— Dan Chaon

Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.

— Julia Alvarez

Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be.

— Jack Kornfield

Having a self, even a simple self, allows you to look into the world and put a mark over what is more important and…

— Antonio Damasio

It turns out that our notions of what a 'self' is and how it might feel fulfilled have no more objective status than most…

— Maureen O'Hara

The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.

— Anais Nin

The true self, once discovered, is the source of creativity, intelligence and personal growth. No external solution has such power.

— Deepak Chopra

We aren't anything in particular. There is no self. There are only ideas and states of mind.

— Frederick Lenz

“Self is what makes mind think, but never needs the mind. Self is what makes bodies live, but needs no existence for itself. Self…

— Gian Kumar

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves…

— Michel Foucault

The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we…

— Gary Wolf

“The self does not stand alone; as we’ve seen, the self is not a thing, let alone a thing in itself. Rather, we experience…

— Robert W. Fuller