Quotes About Self

If there's one thing I've learned in all my years, it's this: lies are curses you place on yourself.

Tat tvam asi.

I'm convinced that each human being more or less builds his own reality. You are what you believe you are. We make images in our minds of what will be---based on what we believe or want, what we're afraid of---

I? Why hadn't I trusted myself? Because I'd trusted the woman across the street instead, that's why. That grown up. That Assistant Principal. So in a way, it had been my fault. But in another way, not. But no matter whose fault it was, I still had bruises on my arms. And now, memories I didn't want.

You don't need luck. Everything you need is right inside you.

Her growing certainty that she was withholding some essential part of herself had filled her with quiet desperation.

If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.

In love we find out who we want to be, in war we find out who we are.

You had the power all along, my dear.

it is folly for us to try to appear otherwise than as nature has made us.

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

All relationship is a reflection of your relationship with yourself.

Whether I'm single or in a relationship, I'm the same person. The same human being.

I just want my relationship to be more for myself rather than a public statement.

Access to your true essence will give you insight into the mirror of relationship, because all relationship is a reflection of your relationship with yourself.

I don't want to have to give up me, in order to be his.

When maintaining a relationship means diminishing your self, it's time to walk.

It is the most vicious of all crimes - to be abused by someone you had a relationship with! Because then you blame yourself.

I feel like so much more than my gender and so much more than my relationship to my body and my relationship to men. And, but suddenly you're sort of asked to be an expert.

The only and dearest relationship is the mind's relationship with itself.

But, you see, it's not what you do that matters really. It's only you.""Me what?""Just you here. Or you in the city. Or you somewhere in the world. I don't know. Just that.

Knowledge of one's identity, one's self, community, nation, religion, and God, is the true meaning of resurrection, while ignorance of it signifies hell.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you. The one no one talks of speaks the secret sound to himself, and he is the one who has made it all.