Quotes About Self

The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek, therefore, not to find out Who You Are, seek to determine Who You Want to Be.

I just want to not be me.

I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.

Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.

What you own is your own kingdom / What you do is your own glory / What you love is your own power / What you live is your own story

Those who would be gods refashion themselves into images the viewers would have them be.

For on television the politician does not so much offer the audience an image of himself, as offer himself as an image of the audience.

After all, everyone's favorite subject is themselves.

You don't become a Christian by acting like one. You are not on a performance basis with God. He doesn't say, "Here are My standards, now you measure up." He knows you can't solve the problem of an old sinful self by simply improving your behavior. He must change your nature, give you an entirely new self—the life of Christ in you—which is the grace you need to measure up to His standards.

Up in the rainbow teepee sky, nonone's looking down on you and i. That's just a mirror in your eye ... If i believe in something, i have to believe in myself ... The world is full of changes; sometimes those changes make me sad ... I think I'll hit the peace trail ...

It seemed incredible that it could be the same road, the same asphalt, that they had traveled so many times together. You thought that you were the permanent part of your own experience, the net that held it all together—until you discovered that there were many selves, dissolving into one another so quickly over time that the buildings and the trees and even the pavement turned out to have more substance than you did.

Was there a person who existed beneath languages?

I could not abandon the rest of me, even when the rest of me overwhelmed my art.

I never consented to this body I've been charged with dragging until my death—

Man is made or unmade by himself Man's mind is the tool by which he may either Destroy him or build a great joy Strength and peace

I am the captain of my soul.

One of the most difficult things is not to change society — but to change yourself.

To attempt to change circumstances before I change my own imaginal activity is to struggle against the very nature of my own being, for my own imaginal activity is animating my world.

Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live.

I AM THAT I AM. [Exodus 3:14]

You are free to choose the concept you will accept of yourself. Therefore, you possess the power of intervention, the power which enables you to alter the course of your future. The process of rising from your present concept to a higher concept of yourself is the means of all true progress. The higher concept is waiting for you to incarnate it in the world of experience.

Everything depends upon our attitude towards ourselves. That which we will not affirm as true of ourselves will not develop in our lives.

Never claim, "I shall be that," Let all claims from now on be, "I AM that I AM.