The Self Quotes

Children see things very well sometimes-and idealists even better.

The person who can combine frames of reference and draw connections between ostensibly unrelated points of view is likely to be the one who makes the creative breakthrough.

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do-can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops or we can make music.

If God had wanted me otherwise He would have created me otherwise.

I am what I am so take me as I am!

Be content with what you are and wish not change nor dread your last day nor long for it.

Oh I'm so inadequate. And I love myself!

Learn what you are and be such.

What thou art that thou art.

People remain what they are even when their faces fall to pieces.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself in spite of being unacceptable.

I'm not OK you're not OK-and that's OK.

Best be yourself imperial plain and true!

She soothed and solaced and celebrated destroying her gift by maiming it to suit her hearers.

Borrowed thoughts like borrowed money only show the poverty of the borrower.

Every man must at last accept himself for his portion and learn to do his work with the tools and talents with which he has been endowed.

Our entire life ... consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.

To find the good life you must become yourself.

Change occurs when one becomes what she is not when she tries to become what she is not.

Human beings aren't orchids we must draw something from the soil we grow in.

A sobering thought: what if right at this very moment I am living up to my full potential?

I long to see everything to know everything to learn everything!

Don't try to teach a whole course in one lesson.

At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all accept these things.

How I relate to my inner self influences my relationships with all others. My satisfaction with myself and my satisfaction with other people are directly proportional.

If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself.

If one is cruel to himself how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.

To succeed is nothing-it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

No matter what age you are or what your circumstances might be you are special and you still have something unique to offer. Your life because of who you are has meaning.

The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there- you build yourself. Those are the high ones the thick ones the ones with no doors in.

Interest in the lives of others the high evaluation of these lives what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself the value he attributes to his own being?

Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor and vice versa.

Healthy personalities accept themselves not in any self-idolizing way but in the sense that they see themselves as persons who are worth giving to another and worthy to receive from another.

We should try to bring to any power what we have as women. We will destroy it all if we try to imitate that absolutely unfeeling driving ambition that we have seen coming at us across the desk.

A man needs self-acceptance or he can't live with himself he needs self-criticism or others can't live with him.

To love others we must first learn to love ourselves.

Imagination was given to us to compensate for what we are not a sense of humor was provided to console us for what we are.

I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there.

A true man never frets about his place in the world but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature and swings there as easily as a star.

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

When you affirm your own Tightness in the universe then you co-operate with others easily and automatically as part of your own nature. You being yourself help others be themselves.

So prodigal was I of youth Forgetting I was young I worshipped dead men for their strength Forgetting I was strong.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble but [we do know] it is our sacred duty.

Each of us has a day ... when he has to accept finally the fact that he is a man.

Style is something peculiar to one person it expresses one personality and one only it cannot be shared.

If you put a woman in a man's position she will be more efficient but no more kind.

Accept your humanness as well as your divinity totally and without reserve.