Quotes About Self

Let yourself become living poetry.

Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?

There is a fountain inside you. Don't walk around with an empty bucket.

We all came into this world naked. The rest is all drag.

When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.

We're born naked, and the rest is drag.

It's a sort of piss-take on culture, because a drag queen is a clown - a parody of our society. It's a sarcastic spoof on culture, which allows us to laugh at ourselves - but in a way that is inclusive of everyone.

The amount of respect you have for others is in direct proportion to how much respect you have for yourself.

You are born naked, the rest is drag.

You're born naked and the rest is drag." In truth, you are not your clothes, you are not your profession, you are not your religion. You are an extension of the consciousness that guides the universe, for which there is no name because it cannot be defined. That's why all the superficial things you list as your identity are in reality your "drag.

The world is only the size of each man's head.

Not Sushila.' 'Not Sushila.

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

And Sophie wrote: "We carry all our standards within ourselves, only we don't look for them closely enough. Perhaps because they are the severest standards.

Begin where you are and what you are.

That's because the truth is, the only things that are going to bring lasting happiness to your life are good health and knowledge of self, which lead to a compassionate relationship with the world.

If possessions are viewed as part of self, it follows that an unintentional loss of possessions should be regarded as a loss or lessening of self.

We cannot hope to understand consumer behavior without first gaining some understanding of the meanings that consumers attach to possessions. A key to understanding what possessions mean is recognizing that, knowingly or unknowingly, intentionally or unintentionally, we regard our possessions as parts of ourselves.

Objects in our possession literally can extend self, as when a tool or weapon allows us to do things of which we would otherwise be incapable. Possessions can also symbolically extend self, as when a uniform or trophy allows us to convince ourselves (and perhaps others) that we can be a different person than we would be without them.

Feedback is most powerful when it is linked to a goal and it informs the learner how they are progressing toward that goal. Feedback that compares the learner's outcomes to the outcomes of others draws attention to the self and has been shown to reduce motivation for learning.

A self-explanation is an activity on the part of the learner that results in a deliberate and deep review of a worked example.

The grass is not greener "over there": one must work out one's problems with this person because if one doesn't, one will have to work it out with that person. This is precisely what is so freeing about the vow of stability . . . to have to work it out is to demand growth, as painful as it is, and that is freeing. Faithfulness is a limit that forces us to stop running and encounter God, self, and other right now, right here.[2] Lord

This self is freer, because it knows itself to be finally and ultimately held safely in a Love that is unchangeable and real.

in the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy. More important, ...it is never too late to find out how to do it.