Quotes About Self

I am my own heaven and hell!

The opportunities for enjoyment in your life are limitless. If you feel you are not experiencing enough joy, you have only yourself to blame.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together-humble dependence and manly independence; humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.

No man should part with his own individuality and become that of another.

Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty.

The future is a world limited by ourselves-in it we discover only what concerns us.

Only an incompetent mind is content to express itself incompetently.

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.

And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?

No first step can be really great; it must of necessity possess more of prophecy than of achievement; nevertheless it is by the first step that a man marks the value, not only of his cause, but of himself.

Tomorrow! - Why, tomorrow I may be Myself with yesterday's sev'n thousand years.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show.

A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.

Self-expression is for babies and seals, where it can be charming. A writer's business is to affect the reader.

A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.

...one's neuroses have possibilities of beauty.

I now know that nothing in my life will change until I change the way I see my life and myself.

I have a body, but I am not my body. I have a face, but I am not my face.

Honor your own Self. Meditate on your own Self. Worship your own Self. Kneel to your own Self. Understand your own Self. Your God dwells within you as you.

Comparison is an act of violence against the self. It also leads to judgments and jealousy of those we deem "better off" than we are. If we aren't the ones doing the comparing, then we're the ones against whom other women measure themselves. In either case, the comparison, judgments, and jealousy can lead to ugly behavior.

Until you trust you, you will be suspicious, disconnected and dishonest with yourself and everyone else

When we know, believe, and understand that we are individual expressions of God, trusting ourselves and trusting God are the same. There is no separation.