Quotes About Self

you know who you are.

only you know who you are.

only you really know yourself and only you can really make your decisions.

Sometimes we are so taken up with the world, or with our own plans and selves, that we haven't given a thought to God, and He just had to take away the thing in which we were interested to make us give our attention to Him, that we might know His will and get the full blessing He has prepared for us.

Let her live in the air,' said Peter. 'I bet you do. Let her love her body.' 'Let her,' said Anna sadly.

I am a man who is come. I am a man who is here. I bring nothing but myself and will take away nothing but myself when I leave. But I will do my very best to leave something behind.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.

It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.

But it is impossible to go through life without trust; that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

I love mirrors,' he had once heard Fulgrim say. 'They let one pass through the surface of things.

Don't always try to understand everything...some things will just never make sense; when you are happy smile, when you are sad, cry but always tune into that best part of yourself where the music "waits"...it will never disappoint you...only the "savvy strutters" know this to be true.

And this secret life itself spoke to me: "Behold," it said, "I am that which must always overcome itself." Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra[1] Only someone who has overcome himself is truly able to overcome. Jean Gebser, The Ever-Present Origin[2]

Sometimes it's only madness that makes us what we are.

That's all I am, now. That's all that defines me. So when they're happy, they'll be me.

Who exactly am I saving from shame, when I'll live and die in every possible way?

Peer shook his head. "What have I become, already? An endless series of people – all happy for their own private reasons. Linked together by the faintest thread of memory. Why keep them spread out in time? Why go on pretending that there's one 'real' person, enduring through all those arbitrary changes?

Where was the line? Between self-transformation so great as to turn a longing for death into childlike wonder … and death itself, and the handing on of the joys and burdens he could no longer shoulder to someone new?

There was no truth in anything he said, anything he believed. It was all just an expression of his own needs.

Had David Hawthorne, by another name, achieved the immortality he'd paid for? Or had he died somewhere along the way? There was no answer. The most that could be said, at any moment, was that someone existed who knew – or believed – that they'd once been David Hawthorne. And so Peer had made the conscious decision to let that be enough.

least—God has already made a way in your life. You are the person you are, with the strengths, weaknesses, interests, and passions you have at this moment.

When I seek him, root my values and desires in him, when I found my relationships and sense of self on him, my capacity for joy increases. The more I "have" Jesus, the deeper my enjoyment of him. He increases my desire for those things that are good, adds value to that which is benign, and diminishes the strength of the negative (the evil) that threatens to throttle me. My dependence on material values and experiences as the means by which I define or please myself decreases.

each of us is whole and complete unto ourselves.

Riparti da te stesso. Sei tu la tua rivoluzione.