Quotes About Self

To be truly rich is to have sovereignty over our own time.

He who trusts in his own heart is a fool" (28:26).

One of the reasons people fail to trust God and seek His plan for their lives is because they become too wrapped up in their own desires, thoughts, and dreams for the future. The focus of their lives is not set on God and doing His will. It is set on fulfilling their own desires—desires that frequently are not in keeping with His plan and purpose.

I am God to the cells that compose me.

Our worst pain is confined within our own skin.

And then she thought that you went on living one day after another, and in time you were somebody else, your previous self only like a close relative, a sister or brother, with whom you shared a past. But a different person, a separate life. Certainly neither she nor Inman were the people they had been the last time they were together. And she believed maybe she liked them both better now.

animal. Our self-reflective perception, our judging and choosing, are what constitute our soul, our consciousness, our conscience (sometimes).

Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you, that by striving to perfect yourselves therein, you may prepare to ascend to him.

Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations. And nothing is more desolating than a thorough knowledge of the private self.

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing was to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness — a real thoroughgoing illness.

It is in his pleasures that a man really lives, it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

Personal protective equipment is self-defense.

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul...

The mirror will only lie, when you look at it through a mask.

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

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

Every man has forgotten who he is. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something. God stoops o'er his head, Satan looks up between his feet—both tug— He's left, himself, i' the middle: the soul wakes And grows. Prolong that battle through his life! Never leave growing till the life to come!

To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all.

Ein Wort Ein Wort, ein Satz -: aus Chiffren steigen erkanntes Leben, jäher Sinn, die Sonne steht, die Sphären schweigen, und alles ballt sich zu ihm hin. Ein Wort - ein Glanz, ein Flug, ein Feuer, ein Flammenwurf, ein Sternenstrich - und wieder Dunkel, ungeheuer, im leeren Raum um Welt und Ich.

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