The Self Quotes

The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .

The integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies.

All that you give to others you are giving to yourself.

It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self examiner.

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception of the gospel.

Note to Self - Thoughts design my energy! My thoughts WILL design the energy that moves me!

One cannot afford to be a realist.

The adequacy of performance attainments depends upon the personal standards against which they are judged

D’Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself? Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, he’ll be his usual charming self by morning.

self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.

I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

The Way to do is to be.

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.

I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.

Will gives us the ability to take an idea hold that idea and zero right in on something

Sometimes people with low self-esteem will try to punish you for caring about them.

In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit.

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up.

Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering opportunity.

Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.

Your inner strength is your outer foundation

You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.

This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

Too often, people get stuck in a state of over-thinking, the result is that they never reach a decision.

The sprint is like life ... blink and you miss it.

By simple mathematics giving is key to the world you seek to live in. If I take I alone gain. If I give or share then two at least are enriched.

I'm not insecure. I've been through way too much f**king sh*t to be insecure. I've got huge balls. But I've been humbled. That makes you grateful for every day you have.

There's a difference, you know, between faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow. The other one will make you sleep.

Anything that feels good couldn't possibly be bad.

Forged in the fires of human passion, choking on the fumes of human rage, with these out hells and our heavens, so few inches apart, we must be awfully small, and not as strong as we think we are.

Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.

What I think is all I have left. My mind is the only thing that makes me different from a fancy toaster. What we think does matter-it's all we truly have.

I've always been told my presence brightened up any room. One might think that went doubly for dank underground cell." (Jace)

Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.

What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.

I'm quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird

I myself am an absolute abyss.

All money does with an empty heart is allow you to be miserable in style.

Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.