Cesare Pavese Quotes

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.

If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are.

I don't dream about anyone - except myself

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.

What is the image you have of yourself?

Don't get confused with what people say you are, with who you know you are.

The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is the whole range of possibilities that you've never even thought of. And you're stuck with you're past when you're stuck with the ego. Because if all you know about yourself is what you found out about yourself, well, that already happened. The self is a whole field of potentialities to come through.

When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see him, you will see yourself. As you treat him, you will treat yourself. As you think of him, you will think of yourself. Never forget this, for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself.

In my own pursuit of God, I often became preoccupied with ME! It was easy to think that being constantly aware of my faults and weakness was humility. It’s not! If I’m the main subject, talking incessantly about my weaknesses, I have entered into the most subtle form of pride.

I'm an egotist, but I'm not selfish. There's a difference. I'm a neurotic, I guess. I can't stop thinking about myself. It isn't that I think myself so important. I simply can't think about anything else, that's all.

I'm not always what I think I am, but I am what I think.

After all, what is your personal identity? It is what you really are, your real self. None of us is what he thinks he is, or what other people think he is, still less what his passport says he is. And it is fortunate for most of us that we are mistaken. We do not generally know what is good for us. That is because, in St. Bernard's language, our true personality has been concealed under the 'disguise' of a false self, the ego, whom we tend to worship in place of God.

Am I the woman I think I am, the woman I want to be? More importantly, am I the woman the Savior needs me to be?

Wherever you go, you will always bear yourself about with you, and so you will always find yourself.

All that matters is how you see yourself.

After all, everyone's favorite subject is themselves.

The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.

I am what I feel and think and do.

I think some people who go into public life, if they go in needing the applause of thousands, they're never going to work out successfully in the end, because they don't know who they are apart from the crowds.

Ego-centeredness is not individuality at all.