Quotes About Self

Power is the ability to control people or things. So, unless you learn to control your own self first, how would you be able to influence anybody else? Now, doesn't that apply to all of us?

When man has love he is no longer at the mercy of forces greater than himself, for he, himself, becomes the powerful force

Your mind is your master.

You are the slave of your mind!

I find the rational part of my mind curled up in a corner of my head and convince it to talk to me.

Anything or everything treated as a 'Problem' on planet earth, falls under the clause of mankind's Self' Ignorance, Ego & Immaturity.

A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time.

In saying my prayers, I discovered the voice of an innermost self, the raw nerve of my identity.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

My prayers my God flow from what I am not I think Thy answers make me what I am.

One cannot attend to oneself, take care of oneself, without a relationship to another person.

Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.

The most important relationship is the mind's relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate - and, really, the only - relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.

If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.

A woman's sense of self is defined through her feelings and the quality of her relationships.

What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest, which always presupposes an I and You.

Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.

A man's sense of self is defined through his ability to achieve results.

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.

It's important not to lose who you are in a relationship just because it's nice to cuddle with somebody.

Your private relationship with yourself is a spring that will feed every other factor.

My true relationship is with myself - all others are simply mirrors of it.

Refuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself.

Seeing yourself as responsible for the quality of your relationship, as a prime mover in your life, I think is a bold, amazing step.