Quotes About Self

could also relate to wanting me to be someone I wasn't, though James couldn't be faulted for that. It had been all my doing.

Right or not, a mother always blamed herself when something went wrong.

Searching for self implied either not liking who you are or wanting to escape who you've been.

You have to believe in yourself before anyone else will.

The real world does, after all, include ourselves [Jill Paton Walsh, "Templates"].

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you're good, bad things can still happen. And if you're bad, you can still be lucky.

I shop therefore I am.

If you bring forth what's inside you, what's inside you will strengthen you. If you don't bring forth what's inside you, what's inside you will destroy you.

Annie Biggs was her

And our dreams are who we are.

Prince Charming, in truth, is nothing more than a projection of our disowned selves. He

We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created. There is no way to shift the blame and no one else to accept the accolades.

Lewis would have agreed with Oscar Wilde that our past is what we are. We cannot rid ourselves of it.

For each man that shall be damned shall be damned by his own guilt, and each man that is saved shall be saved by his own merit." Unperceived, here was the start of the modern world.

Fate represents the fulfillment of man's expectations of himself.

Fate as a character in legend represents the fulfillment of man's expectations of himself.

House speaker Thomas read could see the trend, but he could not have changed himself.

Most of the shadows of this life," observed Ralph Waldo Emerson, "are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

We walk the paths we choose.

We'll little care what others do, And where they go, and what they say; Our bliss, all inward and our own, Would only tarnished be, by being show.

Meditation is an abstraction of attention from one's self, to fix it entirely on God, it is the will insisting on His reality.

Consequently our idea of the Deity is that of the archetype of our own minds.

Man must emphasize himself, and consequently must distinguish himself from God. He must recognize these two terms, himself and God, as terms distinct, not only in thought, but by an act of will, for man must will himself, and by willing himself constitute his personality. However, he must do this without separating himself from God, without excluding God. He must will himself, but he must at the same time will God.