Quotes About Self

I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.

We need to be impressed with these words in verse [2 Cor. 1:]9—"we should not base our confidence on ourselves but on God." Through the redemption of Christ, the very God, who is in the heavens, has come into us, into our spirit (Col. 1:27; 2 Tim. 4:22). Thank the Lord that He is now in our spirit, calling us to forget about the soulish things and turn to our spirit to meet Him. We should no longer trust in our self, in our soul, but in God who is in our spirit.

To] Immediately...turn to our spirit and exercise our spirit to contact God...practically means that we do not trust in ourselves but in God.

I placed no trust in faiths, doctrines, ideologies, institutions. Thus I could stand only upon my own feet. But I was a Pole, molded by Polishness, living in Poland. And so I needed to look deeper for my 'self,' in the place where it was no longer Polish but simply human

Any artist who respects himself ought to be, and in every sense of the term, an emigre.

I am a collection of the family's body parts.

I even stopped walking to give some thought to the fact that everyone, after all, wants to be himself, so I too want to be myself, for example who would love syphilis, of course no one loves syphilis, but after all, a syphilitic man also wants to be himself, namely a syphilitic, it is easy to say "I want to be well again," and yet it sounds strange, as if to say "I don't want to be who I am.

I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success.

A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour. --Uneasy Money

Walking by faith has more to do with believing in our capable God than trusting in our incapable selves.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

it is shame to be an impostor....it only means u gave up!....it is impossible to be perfect....but it is possible to believe in your self....

My one regret in life is that I'm not someone else.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

We really are the architects of our existence, and our surroundings do reflect precisely what we have built.

To Nichiren, "freedom" meant not an escape from the realm of changing phenomena but the discovery of an absolute point of reliance within ourselves.

Every plan in which we participate has one constant, ourselves. Not that we are always the same, but that we are always part of the plan. All else comes and goes: friends, parents, possessions, conditions, situations, and associates, leaving only us, ourselves.

The English certainly and fiercely pride themselves in never praising themselves.

In learning about a person, you learn something about the world and about yourself, and if you can handle what you learn, you can get closer, much closer to them.

The most prized possession in this music is your own unique sound. Through sound, jazz leads you to the core of yourself and says "Express that." Through jazz, we learn that people are never all one way. Each musician has strengths and weaknesses. We enjoy hearing musicians struggle with their parts, and if we go one step further and learn to accept the strong and weak parts of people around us and of ourselves, life comes at us much more easily. A judge has a hard time out here.

Y en el juego angustioso de un espejo frente a otro cae mi voz y mi voz que madura y mi voz quemadura y mi bosque madura y mi voz quema dura

The most delightful of all music, that of your own praises.

What do you mean by wu-wo?' you asked. 'It's like no self. No I. Non-existence,' I answered. 'My body is here, but I don't feel I am here, right now. I don't feel my existence in this environment.

Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self.