Quotes About Self

Focus on your potential not your past.

It is only kindred griefs that draw forth our tears, and each weeps really for himself.

According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.

Not just part of us becomes a teacher. It engages the whole self - the woman or man, wife or husband, mother or father, the lover, scholar or artist in you as well as the teacher earning money.

You are not given the light by anyone—not even by a spiritual teacher. You are that light.

Your strongest ally or your greatest teacher may be sitting within reach, unbeknownst to you.

Your own self is your ultimate teacher. The outer teacher is merely a milestone. It is only your inner teacher that will walk with you to the goal, for he is the goal

Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history.

Every real teacher is myself in disguise.

Ana (it is I)

only until the children are born. Your life is your own only for a short time:

But sometimes when you wore a mask for a very long time, it became your face.

I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if the shaking is still me.

I am not quite myself, I think. But who here is quite himself? And yet there is a way in which we are all more ourselves than ever, I suppose.

It's the natural trajectory of a writing career that a writer becomes better at being herself.

For peace of mind I will lie about any thing at any time.

Being yourself seems like the most effortless thing in the world—duh, who else are you going to be? But it's deceiving, tricky, a summons laden with meandering and failed attempts—and then at last, so wondrously simple.

The things that truly define me can't be lost.

For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.

But I don't have anything left inside of me to figure out where I fit in or what I want. If I want anything, it's to know what's possible to want.