Quotes About Self

Because we are made in God's image, in fleeing from a relationship with a loving God, we are also running from being our most authentic selves.

Exile, like memory, may be a place of hope and delusion. But there are rules of light there and principles of darkness. . . . The expatriate is in search of a country, the exile in search of a self. —Eavan Boland, OBJECT LESSONS

But there was no way to know, and no way to go back. I could not revise. I had been who I had been, and so I largely remained.

You see, the truth is no one ever really falls in love with anyone but themselves. Love is a mirror; a reflective surface projecting who we wish we were. What we've all waiting for is someone to come along who will show us something new about ourselves that we can adore. And then, because someone loves us, in turn, we love ourselves. Does that make sense?

glass, madam. He looks to see his own face, not

As I stared back at myself in the reflected grandeur of the room, I remembered what Mr. Kessler had told me: a good counterfeit is as much a work of art as the real thing.

If complete enlightenment demands relinquishing the self, then complete enlightenment implies the acceptance of mortality. Not that there isn't more to being enlightened than accepting that our lives are brief and end when we did. But I do think it's a requirement.

Some people pursue happiness, others create it.

Blood hardly defines one's character. We are made by our actions, not our blood. - Soren

Inner slavery is even worse than outward slavery; and inner freedom is even better than outward freedom.

True love takes courage, because you have to offer yourself, everything you are, weaknesses and all. And that is the greatest fear of all because rejection of self from someone you love would be a pain beyond enduring.

Dreams are manifestations of identities.

GET RID OF MEANING. YOUR MIND IS A NIGHTMARE THAT HAS BEEN EATING YOU: NOW EAT YOUR MIND.

Love goes away when your mind goes away and then you're someone else.

What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now. - Buddha

Don't let the noise of other people's opinions drown your inner voice. – Steve Jobs

At the same time, "movie autobiographies" written for the Blumer study suggest that woemn's relationship to the screen was less direct imitation than a negotiation between one's sense of self and the ideal female images.

This is the ultimate triumph of totalitarianism: the victim who seeks blame for himself.

Be secure enough in yourself to base success on personal growth.

That's the thing about having a baby: they are a part of you that is outside of you, so you can love them in the way you can't stand to love yourself.

What they don't understand is that it condition is a symptom of me. That I am a stone buried deep in the ground, something that will never grow, no matter how good the dirt.

Because I know that when people comfort you, they're really just comforting themselves.

I soon came to the point where I didn't know whether my smiling face was a lie or not. -Lavi

In time I no longer knew whether my smile was genuine or an act. (Lavi Bookman)