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Quotes About Self

Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.
~ Mark Twain
To remember oneself means the same thing as to be aware of oneself - I am. It is not a function, not thinking, not feeling; it is a different state of consciousness.
~ P.D. Ouspensky
You have to decide at the end of the day if you can live with yourself.
~ Anne, Princess Royal
In each of us there is another whom we do not know.
~ Carl Jung
You are what you think you are.
~ Bob Richards
I am the captain of my soul.
~ Nelson Mandela
Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.
~ Erwin McManus
Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Learn to humble yourself, you are but earth and clay.
~ Thomas a Kempis
What you can become you are already.
~ Christian Friedrich Hebbel
The world can only change from within.
~ Eckhart Tolle
We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.
~ Paulo Coelho
Effort is between you and you.
~ Ray Lewis
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts.
~ Leo Rosten
I am what I wanted and I want what I am.
~ Meister Eckhart
Individuality is founded in feeling
~ William James
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.
~ Muriel Spark
You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself.
~ Nelson Mandela
Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being.
~ Carl Jung
We are responsible for our own destiny. What matters is how we improve ourselves from this moment forward.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves.
~ Huston Smith
I am not the person who is singing I am the silent one inside. . . . I am not my house, my car, my songs They are only stops along my way. . . .
~ Paula Cole