Quotes About Self

When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power.

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

Other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

Only you have the power to change your thoughts. Alter your thoughts and you alter your world.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possilble. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs.

The healing principle is within man himself. Man's power to heal himself, or extend his healing power to others, is measured by his awareness of God in him.

You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that!

The most important part of living life on your own terms and having it all is having faith and belief in yourself and in the intelligent power that created you.

Many Canadian nationalists harbour the bizarre fear that should we ever reject royalty, we would instantly mutate into Americans, as though the Canadian sense of self is so frail and delicate a bud, that the only thing stopping it from being swallowed whole by the US is an English lady in a funny hat.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

I particularly like that last phrase," Mom said. "About protecting your own happiness.

The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.'

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves

Er zijn twee soorten schrijvers. De eerste soort wil zich, zichzelf, rechtvaardigen als mens. De tweede soort wil zich rechtvaardigen als schrijver.

In the book of Proverbs in the Bible, it reads, As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.

It is a great evil to look upon mankind with too clear vision. You seem to be living among wild beasts, and you become a wild beast yourself. (""The Story of Prince Alasi and the Princess Firouzkah")

To every sweetheart he (Casanova) gave himself exclusively; he had so many selves.

They lived autobiographies

We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact.

Higher self now!" and "Spiritual essence now!

Only God, my dear,Could love you for yourself aloneAnd not your yellow hair.

If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right From mirror after mirror, No vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had Before the world was made.

The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all