Quotes About Self

Part of you thinks that you are not going to die because part of you is not going to die.

The best way to get what you want is to be what you are.

Asking for help is an affirmation that you believe in yourself, you recognize an answer is available, and you are open to receive it.

You are not here to work. You are here to awaken.

The power you give others belongs to you. Take it back and take yourself where you would go.

If you can't be with the one you love, be the one you love.

The ego's use of the body is to make it a god, while the soul's use of the body is for it to serve God.

The desire to change others cloaks your desire to change yourself.

The ego makes a lousy master, but an extraordinary servant. Think of the ego as a frightened child who has been given a job far bigger than it can handle. It is not equipped to make big decisions

The ego romanticizes the past to avoid the true romance of the present.

God has denied you nothing. Only you can deny yourself.

One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

I had managed to scare even the monsters, and when you can scare monsters, you can be sure you've become one yourself.

He who understands all but lacks Self Knowledge lacks all.

But for people like Erasmus (with his "cry of thankful joy" on spying a fragment of print) or Lynne Sharon Schwartz ("Can I get back to my books now?"), books are the natural and inevitable and permanent means of being absorbed in something other than the self.

when you know your Self you too shall be known! You'll be aware that you're the sons and daughters of our living Father. But if you fail to know your own Self you're in hardship and are that hardship.

Socrates: Yes mercy and grace are all linked with Love. Let your tears of gratitude wash away the dark dirt of ignorance obscuring your own dear Self which is Love. Charmides: So Love has nothing to do with lust then? Socrates: No! Lust is from the selfish false sense of a 'me' desperate for some pleasurable, momentary relief from its anguish and boredom. Love is refined, and her amorous advances are from the spirit, not the body.

The people that we are when we're alive, that's who we are forever, nipper.

It's wearying, like Caliban buttonholing you in hell and telling you the struggle he's having getting along with himself.

the mantra of 'you can be anything' creates more pain than pleasure.

There is at the heart of Romanticism an urge to withdraw into oneself in order to then transcend the boundaries of that self and connect with nature and the larger order.

We are, each of us, a product of the stories we tell ourselves.

The way that we draw faces says so much about the way that we see ourselves and the way that we see each other.

It's okay to be happy, it's okay to live your life exactly the way you want it... It's okay to find what makes you happy and then to fight for it. To dedicate your life to discovering who you are.