Quotes About Self

the forgotten back-and-forth of early life becomes who we are.

The black-and-white figures of the photographs have had to stand in place of my memory and yet I have always felt that their unmarked graves became a part of me. What was unwritten then is inscribed into what I call myself.

My hope made me pathetic, but I comforted myself with the fact that I was my only witness.

But the child inevitably haunts the adult, even when the former self is no longer recognizable.

I do not believe that to be religious in the best, authentic sense a man has to destroy his love life and mummify himself, body and soul.

What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love.

Man is born only as a potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become a flower for himself and for others.

What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?

Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity.

All my life, I have made it complicated, but it is so simple. I love when I love. And when I love, I am myself.

I love a nice hot pink. I like thick lipstick, otherwise it doesn't look like you're wearing any.

Spirituality, a defended person has no room for love or compassion-he is too busy defending himself.

In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.

I wish I could say that everything I do is for God's glory but I can't. And neither can you. What I can say is Jesus' blood covers all my efforts to glorify myself.

When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature

Love is selflessness, Self is lovelessness.

Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone.

The power of self goes beyond words. Self confidence, self improvement, self esteem, self enhancement, self love ... Get yourself right first!

Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it—that you are it.

You will receive a body. You may love it or hate it, but it will be yours for the duration of your life on Earth.

I am a vegan out of my love and respect for animals, as well as respect for myself.