Quotes About Self

God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.

I splash my head with ice-cold water and turn to face the mirror. When my image appears I instinctively look away. Is there a truth on the other side that we do not want to see?

Your name makes a statement about you. It describes not only who you are but who you might be.

Gotta realize that all you are is all you got.

With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.

Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned.

Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.

Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves.

The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.

Anger often makes us hurt ourselves more than any enemy.

The breath is the first tool for opening the space between the story you tell yourself about love.

Without making universal claims, we can assume that people in the contemporary West … live lives bedeviled by the porcupine dilemma. That is, we struggle on a daily basis to balance privacy and community, concern for self and others, sexual union and a room of our own.

Although much of the work we do in committed relationships we do with our partners, sometimes it's necessary to start with ourselves.

It's a matter of respect for yourself, say's Antwon. Because if you act like it's okay, then nobody going to respect you, and you ain't even going to respect yourself, which is worse, 'cause it gives you, like, this smell in the streets where other people can tell that you're weak.

God—who totally accepts you, no matter what—to help you love and accept yourself.

None of us come to this earth to gain our worth; we brought it with us.

For it would be only for a time. Until what he knew and thought became no longer relevant or necessary and was forgotten. But that was the same with all of us. We were only what we were for a time, at that time. Then our own silver began to mix with the tin of our future to change us. I knew this to be so and grieved for Windlow while I grieved for me. In time I would not be this Peter, even as I now was not the peter of two years ago.... Yet that Peter was not lost.

like alien creatures, not human at all, not like the self in the mirror. Not like the shadow self waiting somewhere, somewhere behind veils to come to her.

It made me cry for myself.

I cry because I'm crying.

walked back into the house to feed myself and my illusions.

There are things you should learn. Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don't wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is.

Why do poets think They can change the world? The only life I can save Is my own.

Okay, I'm dreaming. Hallucinating. Brought on by stress. I had a hard day today and this is my mind trying to protect itself from…from stuff. Lots of stuff. (Geary) (Arik, Trieg, and ZT stare at Geary.) Oh, like I'm any less sane than the three of you just because I talk to myself. (Geary)