Quotes About Self

Do not swear at all;Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,Which is the god of my idolatry.

Alas, how love can trifle with itself!

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.

The soul of this man is in his clothes.

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

Things you know before you hear them -- Those are you, Those are why You are in the world.

How did the world ever manage without me before I was born?' he wondered. 'Didn't they feel something was missing?

Too commonly sex does not have the dignity of a sacramental event because sex is thought to be the means of the search for self rather than the expression and communication of one who has already found himself, and is free from resort to sex in the frantic pursuit of his own identity.

Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode.

I have come to the conclusion that the greatest obstacle to getting what we really want in life is not the other party, as difficult as he or she can be. The biggest obstacle is actually ourselves.

This inner yes is an unconditionally constructive attitude of acceptance and respect—first toward yourself, then toward life, and finally toward others.

Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

We feel that we are greater than we know.

I cannot paint what then I was.

could have laugh'd myself to scorn, to find   In that decrepit Man so firm a mind.

In truth the prison unto which we doom ourselves no prison is

Freedom is control in your own life.

I am the only person who can set me free from what might have been.

If you've made your own hell, then only you have the power to escape it.

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

None of them are willing to see themselves or others simply as what they are. All is colored with myth, with the ideal. Everyone is a figure in a cosmic drama—an imaginary drama.