Quotes About Self

You are the power in your world! You

What we believe about ourselves and about life becomes true for us.

You are much more than your mind. You may think your mind is running the show. But that is only because you have trained your mind to think in this way. You

The Only Thing You Ever Have Any Control of Is Your Current Thought

Homes, Gamache knew, were a self-portrait. A person's choice of color, furnishing, pictures.

In grief people were themselves and not themselves.

But privately Reine-Marie wondered. Wondered whether what people did in a crisis was, in fact, their real selves. Stripped of artifice and social training. It was easy enough to be decent when all was going your way. It was another matter to be decent when all hell was breaking loose.

What was that Milton quote we were raised with? "The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.

We long to find home. After years and years of making war on everyone around us, on ourselves, we just want peace.' 'And

She's a triumph of image over reality. I'm not even sure if she knows what reality is anymore, she's so busy creating this image of herself.

But Peter knew it wasn't empty. For one thing he'd left part of himself in it. Not a hand or a nose or a foot, thank God. But things that had no substance but fantastic weight. He'd left his hope there, and trust. He'd left his faith there too. What little he had, he'd lost.

The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.

Your soul shines through even if you haven't got mascara on

I'm not a ice cream, i'm a human being

Art, true art, is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Rapture's self is three parts sorrow.

Mature love is not a surrender of the self but a surrender to the self. The ego surrenders its hegemony of the personality to the heart, but in this surrender it is not annihilated. Rather it is strengthened because its roots in the body are nourished by the joy that the body feels.

If the ego is inflated it must be gradually deflated.

The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it.

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

appellation

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

Breathing, according to me, corresponds to taking charge of one's own life.

Your silence exists as does my self gathering. But so does the almost absolute silence of the world's dawning. In such suspension, before every utterance on earth, there is a cloud, an almost immobile air. The plants already breathe, while we still ask ourselves how to speak to each other, without taking breath away from them.