Quotes About Self

My life burned inside me. Even such as it was, it was the only record of me, and it was my only creation, and something in me would not accept that it was insignificant.

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

If you own this story you get to write the ending.

Your self-confidence increases when you know you are living your life according to your highest values.

My subject is my life, and my life is my subject.

If you take the responsibility for your life, you can start changing it.

Choose your thoughts carefully [...] you are the masterpiece of your own life.

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life.

I have just realized that the stakes are myself I have no other ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life

Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.

You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.

You can be the lead in your own life.

Really life is about narcissism; no one is ever thinking about you much. You always think people are thinking about you way more than they are.

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.

Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal.

Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself.

A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.

Life is the unfolding of the latent capacities of the soul.

Just as the self of the human being is the centerpoint of the plurality of manifestations of his life of soul, so is the ONE God, transcending the self, the centerpoint of the world.

I think we all have a lot of different personas inside of ourselves. What happens in life is that most people get caught up in presenting one persona that they feel safest in.

When one reaches this state of harmony between things and one's self, one reaches a state of perfect freedom and peace-which makes everything possible and right. Life becomes perpetual revelation.

One thing that remains consistent throughout anything I do in life really is remaining true to myself and trusting my gut instincts.

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.