Quotes About Self

Everyone casts a shadow. Everyone has a relationship with the fearful unknown.

So tell me what I see when I look in your eyes, is that you baby or just a brilliant disguise?

Many of our problems with anger occur when we choose between having a relationship and having a self.

The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my familys relationship with each other.

I have always had a relationship with clothes.

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Well, neither does anyone else. We use concepts like 'consciousness'—'mind'—'personality,' but we don't really know yet what they are. So when I start talking about something like multiple or split personality, all we have are some

The psychiatrist grew weary; found himself drifting into private sorrow. He glanced at a plaque that someone had given him the previous Christmas. MY BROTHER HURTS. I SHARE HIS PAIN. I MEET GOD IN HIM, he read. A failed encounter. He blamed himself. He had mapped the streets of his brother's torment, yet never had walked them; or so he believed. He thought that the pain which he felt was his own.

The Divine nature is Rest," he says in one of the German discourses; and in the Latin fragments we find: "God rests in Himself, and makes all things rest in Him.

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

Attachment mothering is not martyr mothering. Don't think that AP means baby pulls Mommy's string and she jumps. Because of the trust that develops between attached parents and their attached children, parents' response time gradually lengthens as baby gains the ability to control himself. Then mother jumps only when it's an emergency.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

And sometimes we are devils to ourselvesWhen we will tempt the frailty of our powers,Presuming on their changeful potency.

'Tis in my memory lock'd,And you yourself shall keep the key of it.

In following him, I follow but myself.

Reputation, reputation, reputation! O! I have lost my reputation. I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.

Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sortAs if he mock'd himself, and scorn'd his spiritThat could be mov'd to smile at anything.

Lay not that flattering unction to your soul.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

An ill-favored thing, sir, but mine own.

For where is any author in the worldTeaches such beauty as a woman's eye?Learning is but an adjunct to ourself.

Who is it that says most? which can say moreThan this rich praise,—that you alone are you?

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.