Quotes About Self

Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there was no room for doubt, there would be no room for me. —FREDERICK BUECHNER

The autobiography part isn't what matters," I began, before I got bogged down in all the amalgams. The

Patton loved war; Monty loved himself.

Thou art a dreaming thing, A fever of thyself.

A Poet is the most unpoetical of any thing in existence; because he has no Identity--he is continually in for--and filling some other Body--The Sun, the Moon, the Sea and Men and Women who are creatures of impulse are poetical and have about them an unchangeable attribute--the poet has none; no identity--he is certainly the most unpoetical of all God's Creatures. If then he has no self, and if I am a Poet, where is the Wonder that I should say I would write no more?

Is he using terror to keep away boredom? Does he have to try to destroy something? Even as a last resort, himself?

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.

Look at me Who am I supposed to be? Look at me What am I supposed to be? Look at me Oh my love

But as Camus knew, evil and crises do not make all men rise above themselves. Crises only make them discover themselves. And

The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. / What matter where, if I be still the same...

Self-education only produces expressions of self.

With all the things that you could be, you never could learn how to be me.

I'm 100 percent Jewish by blood, but by education I'm nothing. By affiliation I'm nothing.

True education reveals self-potential, more than just sows ideas.

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

I'm a very emotional person, a person of real extremes, and that's often destructive both to myself and others.

Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny.

Melting our attachment to self is the most powerful medication for bringing mental and emotional imbalances in check.

My crown is in my heart, not on my head.

By going along with feelings, you unify your emotional, mental and bodily states. When you try to fight or deny them, you divorce yourself from the reality of your being.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

What we do flows from who we are.

Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.