The Self Quotes

Haven't we all, as time continues, found that we must be kind to ourselves and listen to our thoughts, because fewer and fewer of those remain who know what is most real to us?

Images have enormous power, and images freed from deep within ourselves can change us profoundly.

...you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.

Your ability to shape your destiny is directly proportional to your belief that it is a matter of will and determination--however much or little that belief may be.

But you can't get away from yourself. You can't decide not to see yourself anymore. You can't decide to turn off the noise in your head.

You've always been what you are. That's not new. What you'll get used to is knowing it.

She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.

Look, there is nothing you can say about this show that I don't already know

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

I fail enough and I beat myself up enough. I don't need anybody else to do it for me.

Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.

When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.

In the end, the sum of my vices is all me.

The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?

One of the reasons we judge each other so harshly in this world of parenting is because... we perceive anyone else who's doing anything differently than what we're doing as criticizing our choices.

The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.

Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.

I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.

At some point people either had to throw off the wounds of their childhood or go through life permanently crippled

A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character.

One of the Christian's biggest fears is appearing 'too Christian'. God forbid, because that's often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without being 'one of them'.

Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.

Choose to be pro-active, assertive and self-defining.

A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself.

Blood doesn't satisfy cravings. It magnifies them.

I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again.

It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for.

Ultimately, it's my choice and only my choice.

I'm afraid to go into myself and see what's going on in there.

Do not wait and hope to be discovered...make yourself so you cannot be denied!

If you ever want to see heaven, watch a bunch of young girls play. They are all sweat and skinned knees. Energy and open faces.

I might be alone, but i'm never lonely.

A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.

Oftentimes winning can become an addiction, whether good or bad, to the point where you would rather lose it all before you lose at all.

To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else!

And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.

How we love others is affected by how we love ourselves, and for the first time in a long time, I was whole.

I can see us, living in the woods, her wearing that A, me with a S maybe, S for silent, S for stupid, for scared. S for silly. For shame.

Why had I wasted all my time pretending to be someone I wasn't? I was tired, so very, very tired of standing on my own brakes. I felt...right. I felt free.

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

At CBS, I’m in your house. I’m mindful of that. When I do standup, you’re in my home and I can say what I want to.

His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.

But then Froi looked back to where his work lay unfinished and it made him sad because there had been something about the touch of earth in his hands that made him feel worthwhile.

Richard didn't even have time to ask if I thought I'd ever amount to anything in this life before I looked him eye to eye and said, "I already have, mister.

But giving up's easy. You know what's hard? To believe in your own worth, to know you've got something special in you even if nobody else can see it. Even when you can't.

I would rather have nothing than something that was only alright.

You are not easily forgotten.

Revenge can only be found on the road to self-destruction.

The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.

Over the last few years, my comfort level with how I look has improved. My age has helped. You get used to yourself and accept yourself.