Quotes About Self

In short, a man who is able to teach is a person who is not in bondage to himself. Rather, his true identity in Jesus Christ has enabled him to be in control of his mind and emotions.

Diets are based on the unspoken fear that you are a madwoman, a food terrorist, a lunatic…The promise of a diet is not only that you will have a different body; it is that in having a different body, you will have a different life. If you hate yourself enough, you will love yourself. If you torture yourself enough, you will become a peaceful, relaxed human being.

Awareness is learning to keep yourself company

It is your word of faith that sets you free, not faith in any specific thing or act, but simple Faith in your best self in all ways.

Do not fear to be your true self, for everything you want, wants you.

We are what we make ourselves

They are unchanging, because they have utterly become themselves and will never be otherwise.

People are responsible for themselves. All you can do is try to inspire each person to be his best self.

Somehow they fail to see that for someone aggravated by depression, self-help will be useless, indeed, it is precisely the self that needs to be forgotten.

Chant to him: "An individual thinks for himself." Then roll that around in his head till it means: "If I didn't think of it, it has no bearing on my life.

Some part of me, I don't know which, contradicts the rest.

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.

To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to seem to be.

Cuando releo mis viejos cuadernos de reflexiones, a veces doy con una idea propia que me satisface. Me sorprende que una idea se pueda volver tan ajena para mí y mi sistema, y me alegro tanto como si se le hubiera ocurrido a un antepasado.

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

Right now don't be overwhelmed or intimidated by how much other people may seem to be doing. They haven't lived your life. The only person you can change is you, and the only person who can change you, is you.

that I think explains our own crisis of faith in a very clear way—it is not that you no longer believe in God, but rather that you no longer believe in yourself.

A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

One nice thing about egotists: they don't talk about other people.

I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?

Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.