Quotes About Self

Habrá mayor insensatez que amar lo que no soy y de extrañar lo que nunca he sido?

I cannot really be open to the call of God in a situation of oppression if the one thing I have excluded as an option is my own suffering and death.

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

Most people don't die young, at least not here in America. Tragedy is unavoidable, but in this country, it doesn't usually come in the way one dies but rather in the way one lives. Failed marriages, fucked-up children, abuse of self, abuse of wife, abuse of dog, loneliness, depression, loathing, yawn, whatever.

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.

The difference between men I have camped with and myself, generally speaking,' Mary Roberts Reinhart wrote, 'has been this: they have called it sport; I have known it as work.

All effort at originality must end either in the quaint or the monstrous. For no man knows himself as an original; he can only believe it on the report of others.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self." MAY SARTON

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

Once you believe in yourself and see your soul as divine and precious, you will automatically become a being who can create success.

Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.

Most people are searching for happines. They're looking for it. They're trying to find it in someone or something outside of themselves.That's a fundemental mistake. Happiness is something that you are, and it comes from the way you think.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

As long as there is a 'you' doing or not-doing, thinking or not-thinking, 'meditating' or 'not-meditating' you are no closer to home than the day you were born.

It is only the artificial ego that suffers. The man who has transcended his false "me" no longer identifies himself with his suffering.

Even if we're here for no other reason than because we're here, I don't think it relieves us of deciding what our own purpose here is. I still have to figure that out, but I don't feel like I need to know right this instant anymore. I think I can wait to find out how many apples are inside me.

Did you know when you look in the mirror, you're actually seeing a slightly younger version of yourself?" "Is that so?" she mumbles, her eyes darting to the next table, which is piled high with cheap makeup that looks half-used. "Yes. It has to do with the time it takes light to travel between the mirror and the person standing in front of it.

The regime isn't protecting Christians, it's only protecting itself. Assad isn't protecting Alawites, either. He's exploiting Alawites.

Feelings do not require justification.

An open relationship allows you to be a better lover to yourself as well as to others. It opens your perception and helps you cope with the reality of human nature, which is to seek out love, to give love, and to receive love over and over again in its many forms and many faces. One

Jane Doe had three pierced right ears and two pierced left.

You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.

Accept it with the nude that is in you and you will always be in fashion."

I can't run from myself There's nowhere to hide