The Self Quotes
Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.
Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me.
People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.
Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.
In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell to others.
Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!
Did I love what I was doing, or did I love myself in doing it?
She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.
The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior.
I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.
If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be. I decided early on it was not going to be my looks.
And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.
The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself.
Rest and peace should not be left until you're deceased. They are two vital life incredients everybody needs and seeks.
I'm more a collector of identities and words that feel right to me. To me this is an inarguable point. I am who I say I am and that's not up for debate.
There can be no success in sales without tenacity.
Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.
I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
Ultimately though, we are not responsible for another's happiness. The unhappy person almost always suffers from self-inflicted pain.
A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.
We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
Healing comes from love. And loving every living thing in turn helps you love yourself.
By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.
No one knows more about the way you think than you do.
Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.
It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others.
Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.
I want the world to recognize with me the open door of every consciousness
All around the Mediterranean you'll find cultures that believe men can't control themselves and shouldn't have to try.
There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, and it's up to you how you respond to it.
You've already decided what you're going to do, and all that's left is to set the wheels in motion. I mean, it's your life. Basically, you gotta go with what you think is right.
To be given permission to be confused -- and remain confused -- for as long as it takes would have been a huge gift.
It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.
What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.
One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.
True love is humble, thereby is it known; Girded for service, seeking not its own; Vaunts not itself, but speaks in self-dispraise.
Nothing appears to be something. The human experience is a senseory organ for the divine self. Through these eyes, the divine gets to see itself in form.
