Quotes About Self

Thus to believe in Him is also to believe in your true, glorified self.

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

Education jargon is the language of pedants; it identifies those who have so little confidence in themselves and their work that they seek to create a veil of words to hide them.

Neuroanatomy isn't destiny. Neither is genetics. They don't define who you will be. But they do define who you might be. They define who you can be.

Byron: The luxuries of this place have made me soft.The metal point's gone from my pen, there's nothing left but the feather. Gutman:That may be true.But what can you do about it? Byron:Make a departure. Gutman:From yourself? Byron:From my present self to myself as I used to be! Gutman:That's the furthest departure a man could make!

You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you.

Sometimes we do that to ourselves -- we pit our desires against one another. We insist unnecessarily on seeing one aspect of our personality as being at odds with the rest of ourselves.

The central riddle I've set out to solve concerns the self's continuity in change: how can we remain the same people over time, even as we change, sometimes considerably?

The purpose of the theatre is to serve the needs of the people. The people have no servants. The people serve themselves. The people need revolution, to change the world, life itself.

Perhaps I can't escape the image that others have created for me, but if I don't try, I will never know if I can or not.

We are thus conscious less of the time than we think, because we cannot be conscious of when we are not conscious.

Consciousness is a much smaller part of our mental life than we are conscious of, because we cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of.

All betrayal starts with betrayal of the self.

God, of thy goodness, give me Thyself; for Thou art enough for me, and I can ask for nothing less that can be full honor to Thee. And if I ask anything that is less, ever Shall I be in want, for only in Thee have I all.

It is easier for us to get to know God than to know our own soul...God is nearer to us than our soul, for He is the ground in which it stands...so if we want to know our own soul, and enjoy its fellowship, it is necessary to seek it in our Lord God.

Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.

Who becomes you? No one. No one should become me. When I die, I don't want my body or soul inhabited. I wouldn't wish me on anyone.

Oh yeah. That's me. A mystery, even unto herself.

Expectations. They ruled my life. -Ch.14

Sigmund Freud punya teori bahwa di dalam diri setiap manusia terdapat 'dorongan bunuh diri

Courage consists of the power of self-recovery.

Up there," she says, "I'm just another little old lady. But down here, at the pool, I'm myself.