Quotes About Self

Because of fear, I had forfeited strength, life, and beauty. I had lost a sense of my true self, and with that loss so much of what God wanted for me was yet unrealized.

Our real self is under siege by our anti-self.

I've lost not only my vanity but my feeling of mind-body identity, so that I no longer believe, as you did about me, that elegance of form is elegance of being. I do my best to keep the numbers on the scale where I want them and my skin and hair well tended, but my body is now essentially the vehicle for carting around what I think of as my self. Not

By awakening and embodying one's childhood self, something starts to shift in his adult self.

SoulBlazing is a practice for blazing through your emotional baggage so that you can live a more purposeful life that's aligned with your Authentic Self.

You have the right to be you. -- Lisa Haisha

the individual has the key to change themselves. It's buried deep inside each and every one of us and although someone else can help us to find the key, we're the only ones who can use it. And there

But when it is just me. Alone. With myself—there is no sunshine.

I'm still me, Mum, wherever I go in the world, I'm still just me.

If I'm to change my life for you, I've got to have some hope." "I don't want you to change your life for me. You'll have to make the same decision every day, over and over - it must be for yourself alone.

You're not trying to protect me. You're trying to protect yourself." She hugged herself to him tightly. "But you can force yourself to take the risk of loving someone, can't you?" "No," he whispered. "Yes. You must." Evie closed her eyes and pressed her face against his. "Because I love you, Sebastian…and I need you to love me back. And not in h-half measures.

We have many identities, and we can't be authentic to them all. The best we can do is be sincere in our efforts to earn the values we claim.

My guess is that people look at me and project their own values - importance of family, ego is healthy but not the biggest thing. I don't know. I can't explain my popularity.

I love it when the left and when the president say, 'Don't try to impose your values on us, you folks who hold your Bibles in your hand and cling to your guns.' They have values too. Our values are based on religion, based on life. Their values are based on a religion of self.

It's almost as if we each have a vampire inside us. Controlling that beast, that dark side, is what fascinates me.

As a private person I think I am now totally different from Ruud van Nistelrooy the footballer.

You have to change your life for yourself, and it's about the fun of getting there - sitting in the tour van, breaking down on the side of the road, you know, having a laugh with the guys in the band, making mistakes with nobody watching.

I believe that I have such a vanilla life. But maybe I come with a different perspective. I'm always trying to improve myself.

Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.

Some people criticize me for always wearing different variations of bobs, but bobs never go out of style.

I thought Norton-Taylor sounded more interesting than Norton alone. Anyway, people were constantly getting my name wrong when I was Judy Norton. People called me Morton and Martin and other variations.

I think you can have varied and seemingly contradictory depictions of a single person because we all have many facets and, in a way, many selves.

However varied you try to make your work, you still bump up against the end of you. You keep knocking into a wall, and the wall is your own skull. But when you adapt somebody's work, it's like a door into somewhere else. It feels like a holiday from myself.

Experiences such as, 'I went; I came; I was; I did,' come naturally to everyone. From these experiences, does it not appear that the consciousness 'I' is the subject of those various acts? Enquiry into the true nature of that consciousness, and remaining as oneself, is the way to understand, through enquiry, one's true nature.