Quotes About Self

To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance

Love is not what we become but who we already are

Many conflicts in a marriage result from living to please self instead of living to please the Lord. These conflicts can be resolved and are actually opportunities for spiritual growth when dealt with in a biblical manner.

We don't need another way. Marrying me will solve everything." The man wasn't even scared, which proved Maizy had good control of herself. Surprising what a woman could do at the same time her heart was breaking.

Every woman who has come to consciousness can recall an almost endless series of oppressive, violating, insulting, assaulting acts against her Self. Every woman is battered by such assaults - is on a psychic level, a battered woman.

I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.

Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity.

Ragged clothes?" He grabbed my hand and examined it. "Chipped nails? Those aren't enough to disguise what's inside. You'll always be you, Lia. You can't run from that.

But I am more than a name. More than they tell me

Tell me who I am. (29)

The dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feels like it is so wrapped up in others.

I am not a tomato

I realize how depraved it was to instill false guilt in an innocent child's conscience, causing a distorted image of life, God, & self, leaving little if any feeling of personal worth.

Your attitude is the only thing in your life over which you have complete control.

The Major and Minor Arcana into which the deck is divided are "arks," or containers that, according to the American Heritage Dictionary, "hold the great secret of nature that alchemists sought to find," the concealed knowledge of the self.

If you think you can, you can. If you think you can't you're right.' -Mary Kay Ash

Creation's gold mine is in you. The key is deliberate intention. Whatever your dream may be at this moment, identify it. If you cannot define your desire, it can never become a reality.

We are the hero of our own story.

She considered [her] life, which had not been a life but only a sort of greeting, a Hello There.

It made me love them more because I knew the day would come when I would also be unrecognizable to myself.

To help create positive change in others, you must first find the catalyst for positive change in yourself," Mary Miller, Changing Direction: Ten Choices That Impact Your Dreams (Chapter 1).

I'm taking a big risk by coming clean, but the pressure of hiding my true self done really took a toll on me and I can't take too much more.

His internal God-inspired vision for himself was realized through the acceptance of his previously unacceptable physical vision.

Love cannot survive if you just give it scraps of yourself, scraps of your time, scraps of your thoughts.