Quotes About Self

But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

You'll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men.

For marriage the best man is the man within oneself. Most women need to develop their own 'masculine' qualities of independence, pride, courage and open sexuality.

Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires.

You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.

If you want change in your life, move 27 things in your house." The point here is to anchor your newest self in your environment by changing it to fit who you are now and who you want to be. Change is an integral part of life, and can be used to your advantage.

We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.

Now I had new fears; not of him but of myself and of the drugging rule my body could exert over my mind. ...I was lost to hungers I had not known I possessed.

The greatest enemy of the Greeks is not a Nation, for no Nation is a match for any Greek. It is the Greek himself that is his worst enemy.

Sometimes my body is a guitar, a hole waiting in wood, wires trembling to sleep. To identify what you are, to be loved by what you identify, I thought This is how the blood sings into the self. I thought what was hollow in me would be shaped into music. — Terrance Hayes, from "Arbor for Butch," The American Poetry Review . Volume 38, No. 06 November/December

The central question I ask myself during a therapy session is simply this one: Which part of you am I talking to?

You can be your own biggest enemy or your own greatest ally.

Warrior pose battles inner weakness and wins focus. You see that there is no war within you. You're on your own side, and you are your own strength.

The treasure of self is buried under the rainbow and yet glows beyond the sun.

When you dance to your own rhythm, Life taps its toes to your beat.

You are as important to your health as it is to you.

We're all on different paths, but action is hard work and you must drive your own soul.

Every goal, every dream and every success begins on the inside of you.

Who would you be but who you are?

What they didn't want to believe, what they tried repeatedly to dismiss, was that whatever good and evil existed in the world came from within themselves and not from some abstract source.

because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her

I am who I am; no more, no less.

We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.