Quotes About Self

I couldn't be his savior; I had enough to do saving myself.

And I want to help my family, I want to take care of them…but I can't be that girl. I can't be the smart girl. I can only be me.

Maybe the hardest thing about moving over seas was being in a place where no one but your own family had any memory of you. It was like putting yourself back together in little pieces.

If you could be anyone, would you choose to be yourself?

What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired.

Only God, my dear," wrote Yeats blithely, "Could love you for yourself alone/And not your yellow hair." This quote is meant as a bit of lighthearted verse. But it is an epic tragedy in three lines.

If a woman's sexual sense of self has centered on pain as far back as the record goes, who is she without it? If suffering is beauty and beauty is love, she cannot be sure she will be loved if she does not suffer. It is hard, because of such conditioning, to envisage a female body free of pain and still desirable.

It is inconceivable to the dominant culture that it should respect as a political allegiance, as deep as any ethnic or racial pride, a woman's determination to show her loyalty—in the face of a beauty myth as powerful as myths about white supremacy—to her age, her shape, her self, her life.

Your only limitation is the one which you set up in your own mind.

Remember, the thoughts that you think and the statements you make regarding yourself determine your mental attitude. If you have a worthwhile objective, find the one reason why you can achieve it rather than hundreds of reasons why you can't

Your only limitation is the one you set up in your own mind!

Remember, the thoughts that you think and the statements you make regarding yourself determine your mental attitude. If you have a worthwhile objective, find the one reason why you can achieve it rather than hundreds of reasons why you can't.

We are the masters of our fate, we are the captains of our soul, *because* we have the power to control our *thoughts*.

YOU ARE THE MASTER OF YOUR FATE, THE CAPTAIN OF YOUR SOUL

Points to ponder: Have you a method by which you can shield yourself against the negative influence of others? Are you easily influenced by others, against your own judgment? Do you form your own opinions or permit yourself to be influenced by other people?

even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, So the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.

beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

If the Lord should come He'd change you to nothing for there's nothing to you.

There are lots of things a warrior can do at a certain time which he couldn't do years before. Those things themselves did not change; what changed was his idea of himself.

We either make ourselves miserable, or make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

La lucha que cada uno libra contra su antiguo ser dura toda la vida.

Each man is different. Each man must follow his own path. Each man is the same. Each man must follow his own path.

Deep down we've never been who we think we once were, and we only remember what never happened.

You end up becoming what you see in the eyes of those you love.