Quotes About Self

You will change the world only when you become the embodiment of that which you want the world to be. You have but one gift in this world that is truly yours to give and that is yourself. Unless you yourself are that which you want the world to be, you will never see it in this world. "Except ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins." John 8:24

What a comfort it is to know that all I experience is the result of my own standard of beliefs; that I am the center of my own web of circumstances and that as I change, so must my outer world!

All men have had proof of the power of faith. The faith that moves mountain is faith in yourself. No man has faith in God who lacks confidence in himself. Your faith in God is measured by your confidence in yourself. I and my Father are one, man and his God are one, consciousness and manifestation are one.

He knows as a wise judge that every man perfectly expresses that which he is, as man, conscious of being. He knows that upon the changeless foundation of consciousness all manifestation rests, that changes of expression can be brought about only through changes of consciousness.

No matter what the problem is, no matter where it is, no matter whom it concerns, you have no one to change but yourself, and you have neither opponent nor helper in bringing about the change within yourself.

Circumstance does not make a man, it reveals him.

success is an approach to life that is completely under your control. It does not depend on the outer circumstances of your life but on the inner condition of your soul.

Ah," said Dr. Hart, "this is a pet theory of my own. The actual 'he' is known to nobody." "Does the actual 'he' even exist?" Jonathan returned. "May it not be argued that 'he' has no intrinsic reality since different selfs arise out of a conglomeration of selfs to meet different events?

Tus propias acciones son un espejo mejor de tu vida que todas las acciones juntas de tus enemigos.

Irish people will read anything as long as it's about them. That's what I think. We are our own greatest subject and though we've gone and looked elsewhere about the world we have found that there are just no people, no subject as fascinating as We Ourselves.

There's a book inside you. There's a library inside me.

The only escape I had was watching movies. It was one thing that could take me out of myself - let me forget the world I lived in

To analyze is to renounce yourself One can reason only in a circle One sees only what one wants to see Birth solves nothing I admit I'm crying.

We're always freer than we know.

Bit by bit, we become people we don't want to be,

Dementia is a particularly long farewell to the self. With most illnesses, death comes quite swiftly. With dementia, the flicker with which life ends is excruciatingly slowed.

There's an anticipated, ambiguous grief; a premature mourning of the self, or of the beloved other. During dementia's last stages, a beloved person may be there and yet absent, a powerful reminder of the self's loss.

Could there ever be a more wonderful story than your own?

Seeing people only as members of groups is, he says, "inherently reductionist and dehumanizing, a collectivist and ideological abstraction of all that is original and creative in the human being, of all that has not been imposed by inheritance, geography, or social pressure." Real, personal identity, he argues, "springs from the capacity of human beings to resist these influences and counter them with free acts of their own invention." 5

THE DESIRE FOR PRIVACY is strong; vanity is stronger.

Memory, for Seneca as for Erasmus, was as much a crucible as a container. It was more than the sum of things remembered. It was something newly made, the essence of a unique self.

Activities of self-realization are subject to increasing marginal utility:

When you work all the time, the other aspects of your identity recede until they seem to have disappeared.

Non c'è confine tra quel che siamo e quel che dovremmo essere. Siamo solo quel che possiamo essere.