Quotes About Self

We are no one's reflection— we shine in dark places by the light of our own being

you possess the innate power to create transformation and change—personally, communally, and globally. Bring forth your Het-Hru warrior queen skills and you will be victorious in remaking yourself into a divine vision. Now is your time—the time to reclaim your self and unleash your power as a Sacred Woman.

The price for freedom may be high, but the price that we pay for being imprisoned and cut off from the very root of our being is even higher. When you choose life, you must have the courage to sacrifice your old, worn-out, ineffective self.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

Then my hostess said, "Oh, Denis (as my name was before I dyed it) never plays the part of a man.

If there were no applause and no criticism, who would you be?

All this at the last I dimly saw, but an autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last instalment missing. We think we write definitely of those parts of our nature that are dead and therefore beyond change, but that which writes is still changing - still in doubt.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

As soon as I stepped out of my mother's womb...I realized that I had made a mistake

Pride only hurts, it never helps.

You have to know that your real home is within.

Bootless grief hurts a man?s self, but patience makes a jest of an injury.

Je montrerai comment ce peu de bruit inérieur qui n'est rien, contient tout, [...] comment un cerveau isolé du monde peut se créer un monde.

I am the only guinea pig I have.

They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.

Greek mythology tells of a beautiful youth who loved no one until the day he saw his own reflection in the water and fell in love with that reflection. He was so lovesick, he finally wasted away and died, and was turned into a flower that bears his name — Narcissus.

indolence, sloth rejects the burden of order, choosing instead the breezy lightness of freedom. Loving self more than relation, and autonomy more than the good, in sloth one rejects the weight and density of living in an ordered creation.

Surely He does not give us hearts so we may spend our lives ignoring them.

Chanakya also says that nothing is more important than you. So, if you need to sacrifice the whole world for your progress and protection, then do so without any hesitation.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self. MARTIN LUTHER (1483–1546)

To prevent your persona from becoming a prison you must experience your inner self stripped of its outer trappings.

First, a man is created in his own image, and only afterwards in the image of God.