Quotes About Self

Who himself is not the cause of his own unrest? Reflect how no one is hampered by any other; and that all is as thinking makes it so.

Don't ever forget these things: The nature of the world. My nature. How I relate to the world. What proportion of it I make up. That you are part of nature, and no one can prevent you from speaking and acting in harmony with it, always.

And how man grasps God, with what part of himself he does so, and how that part is conditioned when he does.

So it is that we have more respect for what our neighbours will think of us than we have for ourselves.

For what hurt can it be unto thee whatsoever any man else doth, as long as thou mayest do that which is proper and suitable to thine own nature?

No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothings can happen to you that is not required by Nature.

neither have I ever seen mine own soul, and yet I respect and honour it.

and shalt respect thy mind only, and that divine part of thine, and this shall be thine only fear

Three things there be in all, which thou doest consist of; thy body, thy life, and thy mind.

Things have no hold on the soul. They have no access to it, cannot move or direct it. It is moved and directed by itself alone. It takes the things before it and interprets them as it sees fit.

But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

XLVI. The ambitious supposeth another man's act, praise and applause, to be his own happiness; the voluptuous his own sense and feeling; but he that is wise, his own action.

Life for each of us is a mere moment, and this life of yours is nearly over, while you still show yourself no honour, but let your own welfare depend on other people's souls.

We are each of us stronger than we think.

People don't change that much. Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in. That is hard enough.

Paying attention to our relationship with God matters because we ourselves are ultimately relational. It is not that wr first become selves and then have relationships. Rather, we are constituted by our relationships; they shape and form us. So also paying attention to our relationship with God will shape us.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

By all means press on . . . and bear in mind that you are not mortal, but only that body of yours. You are not the person presented by your physical appearance. A man's true self is his mind, not that form which can be pointed out by a finger.

I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be. I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something, till I realized the person I was waiting for was myself.

It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge.

Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.

I avoid looking down at my body, not so much because it's shameful or immodest but because I don't want to see it. I don't want to look at something that determines me so completely.

You can forget who you are if you're alone too much.