The Self Quotes

Because we are made in God's image, in fleeing from a relationship with a loving God, we are also running from being our most authentic selves.

After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are. There is no way to know why.

Nothing is the whole story. The self’s curse – and the writer’s.

SINK OR SWIM ALERTFolks with low self-esteem will push you under to save their drowning egosKamil Ali

Personality is a strategy devised by a child. Our true, original self lies under our personality, in the transpersonal ground of our being, at our core.

I am proud of (knowing) who I am.

He wondered if anyone really ever changed, or if stuff just piled on and on, covering up, but never erasing all the different parts. How deep would you have to dig to find who you started out as?

When you understand what you’re truly worth, who is going to be able to make you feel worthless? No one.

When you submit yourself to God and obey Him, you allow Him to do what He desires in your life. You make it possible for Him to lead you wherever He wants to use you.

We can never see what we never question, for we who escapes, blinds us

I was the chain that bit into my ankle, and I was the ruthless guard that never slept.

And I'm made up of everyone I've ever met who's changed the way I think. So who is "me"?

In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for that might be our fault.

When the rose opens its heart, you will smell the fragrance of its soul.

In that moment, I felt differently to myself yet the essence of who I really was.Like a perfect state of balance.

You are accompanied through life, Emily Jesse occasionally understood, not only by the beloved and accusing departed, but by your own ghost too, also accusing, also unappeased.

Between you and you, let there be no secrets. ~T.F. Hodge

i was told i was conceited today.... but being conceited would imply that i see my self as being absolutely perfect.... but come on lets be real ........ EVERYONE KNOWS IM PERFECT.

He liked what he had too much.

I really wanted to take her photo, so I walked up to the nearest adult and asked, 'Does she belong to you?' Suddenly the music stopped, and I heard: 'I belong to myself!

When I turn my mind's eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things...

If you can't please yourself some of the time, how do you expect to please people all the time? Not everyone is going to appreciate you for your efforts and deeds.

I think I possess because I do not try to give, Trying to give, I see that I have nothing.

I always believed that If I’m not carrying at least a slight poetically painful crack in my heart I’ve been cheated by nature.

To make yourself something less than you can be - that too is a form of suicide.

one bothers oneself for nothing.

Though we rush ahead to save our time, we are only what we feel

We're all guilty of dedicating time to people who didn't value it.

Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stayjust above the surface, yet I'm already underand living within the ocean.

I'm not the same. How could I be the same?

Because you believed In yourselfYour tiny selfBecause you knewThere is no greater accomplishmentThan making someone love you

A personal revolution is the consequence of confronting self - as is.

To bite off your shadow is neither easy nor painless. It demands a single-mindedness that is almost unknown in this day.

you ask me a question I'll give you an answer…but don't look at me when I say something you don't want to hear.

In silence you shall face self...and have respect.

...there is no better time to examine and understand one’s selfhood than when it is dissected and hurtling through darkness.

Writing is all at once an exploration of what is, and what is not. Of the known, and the unknown. A journey into the depths of self, and all of humankind.

You do not have an inferior function, it has you.

Maybe it was better to be who he thought I was than who I thought I was.

There is no growth without risk. There is always something to be gained from any experience. It is up to us to interpret our truth of self.

Self is found in knowledge, devotion and concentration, in integrity, purity, moderation, self-control and intelligence.

Pride can be friend, ego can be foe...depending on which one we choose, or not, to conquer.

You are always left with choice not chance

The self may be extinguished, but there are many selves and the Will creates them.

Walls get made, walls crumble, buildings get built, buildings collapse, memories get made, memories last.

The moment you open yourself completely to the love that awaits your conscious embrace, you are no longer there to receive it.

The act of underlining always contains an element of self-recognition.

Maybe it's not about the journey but rather the way you imagine the journey when you read a book.

Question who is the doer. Is it the mind or the Self?

But replacing hunger for divine connection with Double Stuf Oreos is like giving a glass of sand to a person dying of thirst. It creates more thirst, more panic.