Quotes About Self

Your future and success depend upon many things, but mostly they depend upon you. You have the responsibility to shape your life. You are the person who pushes yourself forward or holds yourself back. The power to succeed or fail is yours alone.

the ego is just a thought — and thoughts can be changed.

Do not throw away your heart. Keep your heart. Your heart is all that matters ... Throw away your ancestors! ... Throw away your shyness and the anger that lies just a few inches beneath ... Accept the truth! And if there is more than one truth, then learn to do the difficult work -- learn to choose. You are good enough, you are HUMAN ENOUGH, to choose!

Every decision that you make either moves you toward your personality, or toward your soul.

Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself, the only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now.

Presence of mind in all things, I counsel. Be aware of thyself before all else.

The recognition and the acceptance of the Other's humanity (or humanness) is a maiming of self. You have to wound the self, cut it in strips, in order to -know- that you are as similar and of the same substance of shadows.

Expansion to your ego, friend. -At your expense.

And that to me is something. Coming to an understanding of who you are in the midst of discovering who you aren't.

Most of the world's religions serve only to strengthen attachments to false concepts such as self and other, life and death, heaven and earth, and so on.

Life is a show, where you're the writer and star. It rests solely on your performance to make it a masterpiece.

Still," said Ramse. "You're not much. You're what you are and we love you for it, but you're not much.

No one will care more about your life than you do and no one is better qualified to chart its course than you are. You are the expert.

The mind of man is never so cunning as when it is involved in the art of self-justification.

My mutilation was accomplished when I was a child of seven. I no longer remember myself any other way.

The words of others cannot rob us of our inner peace and joy unless we give them the power to do so.

for the Capitol as a whole, being a 'real human being' lies precisely in freedom from the constraints of identity

I have to live with both my selves as best I may.

I used to be a cool chick but I'm not anymore.

I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.

I did not have implants, I just had a growth spurt.

It's easy to get wrapped up in sharing everyday life with a partner. It's fun to get lost in love and romance. It's the best. But holding on to yourself while doing that is the most important thing.

Man has only himself to fear now . . . he has become his own worst devil.

And what do you think of that? Abitha asked herself. "I think it is wonderful.