Quotes About Self

Indeed, the more we are our own possession, the less we are God's possession.

for it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works.

St. Augustine said, "What good is it to me that this birth takes place ceaselessly if does not take place in me? If it is to be done, it is to be done within me.

We spend our lives hiding deep inside ourselves in paralyzing fear that someone might see us as we really are, or worse: We might see ourselves.

We mock the things we are to be.

Non pretendo di essere capito, ognuno di noi è l'enigma di se stesso.

I'm none of those things. I'm just me.

A piece of me is gone," she told me once while we were bra shopping. "I think we're made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you're left with less of yourself.

Our voices sound kinder in the skin of our own language.

Everyone had told him to be strong for her, but Finnikin didn't know how to be strong for himself.

Unexpectedly, a fierce sense of protectiveness comes over me. Except I fight it back because I can hardly look after myself these days.

thirdly is how I feel about you, but more than anything how I feel about me because of you.

If you close your eyes, you get to control your own darkness.

Tell me what part of me is stranger to you and I'll destroy that part of me.

I'm mine. Not anyone else's.

I'm not happy," she whispered. "I don't know what I am, but this isn't happiness.

The problem is, no matter how far or fast you drive, you can't leave yourself behind. And if you can't feel at home in your own head, where can you?

Trust wisely and believe in yourself, in your vision.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

En tots els meus personatges hi ha característiques meves, però cap dels meus personatges no és jo.

I realized that in order to fully pass this threshold of the self-healing journey after narcissistic abuse, I had to surrender my ego's attachment to the false sense of security that I had created through isolation and not risking my heart in relationships.

A young homosexual friend recently said, "It's no secret that you, that one, has such-and-such color hair, is yea high, weighs thus and so, and so on, but when you keep one part of yourself secret, that becomes the most important part of you." And that is true, I think; it may be the most important truth of all.

Since self cannot be converted, it must be crucified. In no other way can one experience deliverance from the tyranny of self.

A personality disorder is not the foreign presence of demonic possession or a cancerous cluster of cells spreading among the internal organs. It is a pattern of cognition and reaction that impares the capacity to be productive, happy and generally at ease. It is a fractured sense of self giving way to the weight of stressful interpersonal dynamics.