Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself.

Above all, know that ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego.

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.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

My personality doesn't interest me.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.

I find myself a fascinating subject.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

I discovered myself!

I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

We have to have a very clear understanding of ourselves.

There are a lot of layers to me.

'Shortcomings' was me figuring out who I am.

It is human defect — to try to know oneself by the self of another.

We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.

Who are you, Master?' he asked. 'Eh, what?' said Tom sitting up, and his eyes glinting in the gloom. 'Don't you know my name yet? That's the only answer. Tell me, who are you, alone, yourself and nameless?

The secret is to have a sense of yourself, your real self, your unique self. And not just once in a while, or once a day, but all through the day, the week and life.

I think this is what college is all about: self-examination and dealing with those questions of "Who am I?"

Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.

I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my imagination on other people and on life.

I would rather be an expert on me than on Cicero