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You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it's a catch-22: all of those things you're willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you've lost yourself.
Sep 29, 2025
If you begin to give away parts of yourself, eventually you'll give it all. And once you've lost yourself, haven't you lost everything?
You better lose yourself in the music
When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.
That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.
Lose yourself in nature and find peace
You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn't care about losing you
Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes filled with the essence of your passionate being and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again - the first kiss of the rest of your life.
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world. Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form.
People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
My contention is that as long as you have other faculties-the emotional, psychological, intuitive faculties-you haven't lost yourself or even diminished yourself. Don't be ashamed when you're physically limited or dysfunctional; don't think that you're any less because of your condition. In fact, I feel I am even more myself than I was before I got this illness because I have been able to transcend many of the psychological and emotional limitations I had before I developed ALS.
Ask yourself what makes you come alive.
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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