Best drama & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The past is remembered as if it were a drama in which the self was the leading player”

“Among all the complaints you hear these days about the crimes of the media, it seems to me the critics miss the big one. It is that especially TV, but also we of the print press, tend to reduce mess and complexity and ambiguity to a simple story line that doesn't reflect reality so much as it distorts it. ... What bothers me about the journalistic tendency to reduce unmanageable reality to self-contained, movielike little dramas is not just that we falsify when we do this. It is also that we really miss the good story.”

“Take refuge in silence. You can be here or there or anywhere. Fixed in silence, established in the inner 'I', you can be as you are. The world will never perturb you if you are well founded upon the tranquility within. Gather your thoughts within. Find out the thought centre and discover your Self-equipoise. In storm and turmoil be calm and silent. Watch the events around as a witness. The world is a drama. Be a witness, inturned and introspective.”

Ifs World Wells Self Silence Watches Events Drama Silent Calm Storm Witness Fixed Over You Refuge Centre Tranquility Turmoil Introspective

Author:Ramana Maharshi

“People also like partnerships because they can identify with the drama of two people in partnership. They can feed off a partnership, and that keeps people entertained. Besides, if you have a successful partnership, it's self-sustaining.”

People Ifs Two Self Successful Drama Partnership Sustaining

Author:Mick Jagger

“As much as everything can seem to be about patterns in your self and others, within the drama of all that, it's really all about knowing.”

Self Seems Knowing Drama Patterns

Author:John de Ruiter

“In Advance of All Parting is a tough, unsentimental examination of marital grief. Musically elegant and inventive, understated and passionate, the poems give us a profound glimpse into how the events of a life can form a center of gravity that fixes the self in its force field. Theres a cold, truth-telling clarity about them that makes them as unsettling as they are beautiful. Ansie Baird has created a richly-drawn world in which this elemental drama plays out, and the result is vivid, startling poems in which pain has left its indelible tracks.”

“Often our bad moments are self-propelled ... And the drama is almost exclusively within our heads and hearts.”

Heart Self Moments Drama Head And Heart

Author:Katharine Tynan

“The purpose of ritual is to change the mind of the human being. It's a sacred drama in which you are the audience as well as the participant, and the purpose of it is to activate the parts of the mind that are not activated by everyday activity ... 'Magic' becomes the development of techniques that allow communication with hidden portions of the self, and with hidden portions of all other islands in this 'psychic sea.'”

“When the ego dominates in organizations, even spiritual organizations, there is usually a big drama or upheaval of some kind, and self-destruction begins.”

Kind Self Bigs Spiritual Drama Ego Destruction Organization Self Destruction Upheaval

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“I find things funny that aren't self-aware. That don't know they're funny, and I think the same can hold true for drama. If you think you're in this tragedy and you play it for tragedy, there's a self-awareness there that I think takes you out of watching it and I believe it cuts both ways.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Believe Self Play I Believe Cutting Awareness Drama Tragedy Self Awareness

Author:Steve Carell

“The true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one's failure or pettiness or wrongness exists the living drama of the self.”

Has Beens Self Drama Pettiness

Book:Gore Vidal: Sexually Speaking, Collected Sex Writings

Source: Gore Vidal: Sexually Speaking, Collected Sex Writings

“The energy is changing here dramatically. That's part of the upheaval of the drama. The dimensional shifts are accelerating. The magnetic energy at the core of the Earth has transformed to take in the new settings of our awakening selves.”

Self Earth Energy Drama Awakening Core Setting Settings Transformed Magnetic Upheaval

Author:Christine McCormick Day

“Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.”

Heart Self Song Drama Opening Desperate Valve Heart Opening

Book:Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

Source: Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

“To be ourselves we must have ourselves – possess, if need be re-possess, our life-stories. We must “recollect” ourselves, recollect the inner drama, the narrative, of ourselves. A man needs such a narrative, a continuous inner narrative, to maintain his identity, his self.”

Ifs Men Needs Self Stories Our Lives Identity Drama Narrative Life Story

Book:The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic

Source: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic

“Whoever you are, bear in mind that appearance is not reality. Some people act like extroverts, but the effort costs them energy, authenticity, and even physical health. Others seem aloof or self-contained, but their inner landscapes are rich and full of drama. So the next time you see a person with a composed face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat. She might, that is, be deploying the powers of quiet.”

Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth.”

People Giving Writing Believe Art Important Self Young Voice Drama Art Is Self Worth Encouraging Sense Of Self

Author:Michael Morpurgo

“In rare moments of deep play, we can lay aside our sense of self, shed time's continuum, ignore pain, and sit quietly in the absolute present, watching the world's ordinary miracles. No mind or heart hobbles. No analyzing or explaining. No questing for logic. No promises. No goals. No relationships. No worry. One is completely open to whatever drama may unfold.”

World Mind Heart May Self Play Moments Pain Fun Goal Worry Promise Drama Ordinary Logic Miracle Absolutes Lays Shed Explaining Sense Of Self Analyzing Continuum No Worries Rare Moments

Book:Deep Play

Source: Deep Play

“Your self-esteem has never been hurt before, right? Don't be so full of yourself then.”

Self Hurt Self Esteem Drama Esteem Been Hurt Full Of Yourself

Author:Kim A-joong

“I hate that you don't have the insight. I hate that you shamelessly returned despite being kicked out. I hate that you don't even seem to have the slightest self-respect. And also the fact that you used San as your "heart-wrenching" excuse to return. Back to this hell-hole.”

Heart Self Facts Seems Used Hate Hell Return Drama I Hate Excuse Insight Holes Despite Self Respect Heart Wrenching Return Back

Author:Cho Gun-woo

“I no longer have time for unnecessary drama. I wasted so much time scared, self-conscious and insecure. Life is too short to stress the small things anymore.”

Self Life Is Drama Conscious Stress Scared Unnecessary Insecure Too Short Small Things Self Conscious Life Is Too Short

Author:Daryl Hannah

“Then my life crashed and burned down: trials, men, drama, no self-love, no identity. A little identity, but not a lot of love for myself, my life.”

Men Littles Self Identity Self Love Drama Trials Burned

Author:Mary J. Blige

“Many things happen in life. There are joyous days and times of suffering. Sometimes unpleasant things occur. But that's what makes life so interesting. The dramas we encounter are part and parcel of being human. If we experienced no change or drama in our lives, if nothing unexpected ever happened, we would merely be like automatons, our lives unbearably monotonous and dull. Therefore, please develop a strong self so that you can enact the drama of your life with confidence and poise in the face of whatever vicissitudes you may encounter.”

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