Quotes About Self

We don't love each other; we love the idea we have of each other. Very few humans understand this or can bear to contemplate it. They have blind faith in their own powers of creation. All love, ultimately, is self-love.

All love, ultimately, is self-love.

Am I evil? . . . I used to think I couldn't be, because you loved me

Demam macam apakah ini, kenapa orang ingin sekali unjuk diri dalam bentuk tertulis?

Man's ability to indulge in self-deception knows no bounds.

She believed in the miraculous. Or she had, until she reached an age when, all of a sudden, she realized that the life she was living, was in fact, her life . The clay of her being, so long infinitely malleable, had been formed, hardened into what now seemed a palpable, unchanging object. A shell she inhabited. It shocked her then. It shocked her now, like a slap in the face.

The place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within.

Nah," I said to myslef, crumpling up the note, "Non vale il pene".

Those who express even a little of themselves never become old-fashioned.

Your only hope of satisfying others is in satisfying yourself. I speak of a great satisfaction, not a commercial satisfaction.

We are troubled by having two selves, the inner and the outer. The outer one is rather dull and lets great things go by.

If you think something is missing in your life, it is probably YOU...

Happiness is not in things; happiness is in you.

Trust yourself and speak out what you believe. If what you believe is different, dare to be different. Dare to be in a hurry to change things for the better.2 —Geoffrey

To give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself.

For as we think in our hearts so are we.

Abbiamo perduto noi stessi e creato qualcos'altro, qualcosa che esiste in quanto ci unisce. Ci amiamo. Con tutta la profondità, l'intensità con cui è possibile amarsi.?

As Kai Erikson has put it, traumatised people 'may be said to have experienced not only a) a changed sense of self and b) a changed way of relating to others but c) a changed world view altogether'. In that first

To draw close to Divinity is to come to appreciate man as a divine creation, for "If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 343).

Ours is a psychological age rather than an institutional one. What used to be done for us by institutional structures and through ritual process, we now have to do inside ourselves, for ourselves. Ours is a culture of the individual rather than the collective.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

We can't be everything to everyone and still be true to ourselves.

The guiding self shows intentionality and intelligence; but it is as if the intentionality and intelligence is a phenomenon that only appears when an observing ego notices a kind of behind-the-scenes design to the multiplicity of affects, dreams, visions, and patterns of behaviors. Thus, the intentionality of the guiding self may be likened to a consciousness in potential because it depends upon being perceived by an observing center of existing consciousness—the ego.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.