Quotes About Self

We have made thee neither of heaven nor of earth, Neither mortal or immortal, So that with freedom of choice and with honor, As thought the maker and molder of thyself, Thou mayest fashion thyself in whatever shape thou shalt prefer. Thou shalt have the power out of thy soul's judgment, to be reborn into the higher forms, which are divine.

What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That's the danger of celebrity.

A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.

Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

As I free myself through Forgiveness, Myself dances around Myself. I stand in the Light.

Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life.

I was my usual charming morning self, threatening blood feud with anyone fool enough to disturb my dreams.

You save yourself. That's all. You save yourself, or you're damned.

The beast is redundant. It's been us all along.

The Mortals are free, Lucifer. What they've done they've done from within themselves. - Raphael

The pornologue's mantric (as is the Athanasian Creed, for that matter) sucking her down to a level of herself where no questions are asked, where her history evaporates, where her self bleeds painlessly into the void.

Nothing is the whole story. The self's curse – and the writer's.

And I've come to the place where I believe that there's no way to solve these problems, these issues - there's nothing that we can do that will solve the problems that we have and keep the peace, unless we solve it through God, unless we solve it in being our highest self. And that's a pretty tall order.

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

In most societies, a woman is encouraged to give birth to another person more than she is encouraged to give birth to herself.

There is no such thing as a perfect leader. We have to learn to lead ourselves.

Home is a symbol of the self. Caring for a home is caring for one's self.

I'm not sure we can understand another country if we don't understand our own.

It's time to leave. There is so much out there to do and say and listen to. I can go on the road, because I can come home. I come home, because I am free to leave.

To think about taking our place in nature instead of conquering it is a deep change in the way we see ourselves and the world. It means changing from binary and linear thinking to a cyclical paradigm that is a new declaration of interdependence.

You're always the person you were when you were born," she says impatiently. "You just keep finding new ways to express it.

Listening to these stories reminded me of the words of the great Ghanaian novelist Ayi Kwei Armah: "For seasons and seasons and seasons, all our movement has been going against our self, a journey into our killer's desire.

You're always the person you were when you were born