Quotes About Self

Posiblemente me quisiera, vaya uno a saberlo, pero lo cierto es que tenía una habilidad especial para herirme

One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.

I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.

You cannot change other people, miss," Yvette would say. "You must change yourself inside first.

They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good.

I use the word mystery,rather than magic. I love magic. something magic was always going to happen. When it did, it never did anything but land me in trouble. MYSTERY is the depth of the sacred. Page 33 coming home to my self

She's the main character in her story, just like I'm the main character in mine.

Such arrogance. A right of youth, he supposes, a necessity. How else is it possible to face the terrifying void of your unformed self except by claiming absolute intelligence?

It's easy to be yourself in the dark.

May you walk a lighted path. May you fight for truth - your truth, not someone else's - and may you understand, above all things, that you are the most important concept, theory, and philosophy I have ever known.

I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living.

But if we create our own Shakespeare, it is at least as true that the Shakespeare we create is a Shakespeare that has, to a certain extent, created us.

Pride is a by-product of insecurity. And the more insecure a person is, the more monuments they need to build. There is a fine line between 'Thy kingdom come' and 'my kingdom come.' If you cross the line, your relationship with God is self-serving. You aren't serving God. You are using God. You aren't building altars to God. You are building monuments to yourself.

Worship is forgetting about what's wrong with you and remembering what's right with God.

If you aren't hungry for God, you are full of yourself. That's why God cannot fill you with His Spirit. But if you will empty yourself, if you will die to self, you'll be a different person by the time you reach the last page of this book.

Who you become is determined by how you pray.

The emotions we experience don't reflect our external reality; they reflect our internal reality.

I wonder if as the bizarre becomes commonplace there is a hidden cost to the self.

The central argument is not that higher education is all wrong, but that it is only half right. Our predominant pedagogical system — rational, hierarchical, individualistic, and well-ordered — often ignores aspects of the self relating to emotion, mischievous subversion, social engagement, and creative disorder.

In the grand scheme of things, his existence was not important to anyone but himself

What I've learned in these 11 years is you just got to stay focused and believe in yourself and trust your own ability and judgment.

If I was controlled by anything, it was my perception of who I was.

When the Self dissolves into a world of separate selves and death becomes real, love becomes a pact with grief; what is gained then is the inescapability poignant fact of individuality. There will never be another you, and I love the stubborn particularity of you because you will disappear.

Isn't that it, to be yourself and somehow, to belong?