Quotes About Self

You cannot change your reality if you think someone else is responsible for it.

You experience your true SELF every time you act through LOVE. LOVE always expands your CONSCIOUSNESS.

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

Reformation of the world begins with reformation of self. We cannot hope to influence others in the direction of moral virtue unless we live lives of virtue. The example of our virtuous living will carry a greater influence than will all the preaching, postulating, and theorizing in which we might indulge. We cannot expect to lift others unless we are standing on higher ground.

To pray is also to breathe, and possibility is for the self what oxygen is for breathing.

We are responsible for most of what happens to us.

We can see for ourselves how beautiful we both are.

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul; Love is the only angel who can bid the gates unroll...

And so, every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

What we call 'I' is just a swinging door, which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.

There is hardly one in three of us who live in the cities who is not sick with unused self.

Be a coffee-drinking individual — espresso yourself!

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.

He who buys what he does not need steals from himself.

Socrates learned to dance when he was seventy, because he felt that an essential part of himself had been neglected.

It's not what you eat but who you are when you eat it.

Obesity is a condition which proves that the Lord does not help those who help themselves and help themselves and help themselves.

If your armor against the world is laziness and excuses, you're not protecting yourself from battle and injury — you've trapped yourself inside with them.

Illusions about yourself and the world are one. That is why all forgiveness is a gift to yourself.

Every artist's illimitable country is himself.

I also came to see that the price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

Hate cages all the good things about you.

It has been a task in my practice of yoga to feel the unlimited aspects of Self as well as to explore and challenge the physical aspects — both pleasant and painful. This challenge is emotional, intellectual, psychological, physical, and spiritual.