Quotes About Self

Kurayakan diri, kunyanyikan diri, Apa yang kusangka akan kau sangka, Untuk tiap atom milikku ialah juga milikmu. (Walt Whitman)

The point is that in society everybody must answer the question of what he is—as distinct from the question of who he is—

I don't think how old a person is has anything to do with what he really is himself.

As long as I shall live I shall always be My Self-and no other, Just Me.

You and the quiet sky—I wish I had never gone away. What is the use of being one's self, if one is always changing?

I just wanted to be a human being. I just wanted to be whoever I saw in the mirror, without a race or a place in life. What is so wrong with that?

Go on with your judas ginger self

To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.

But the most interesting thing that Franklin invented, and continually reinvented, was himself.

Para castigarme por mi desprecio a la autoridad, el Destino me ha convertido en autoridad a mí mismo.

Only through the personal awareness and "inward conviction" that we each have of our own freedom, Kissinger concluded.

there are at least two distinct selves, the public and regal self, the private and human.

All men desire their own perfect adjustment, but they desire it, being finite men, on their own terms.

But I wasn't there to treat the incurable ills of megalomania.

God gave Moses the Ten Commandments: rules of behavior that were supposed to make people moral. Ten was too much to remember. Jesus knew this, He brought them down to two: Love God and Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself. Still too much to remember, if the last 2000 years is an indicator.

If you have not experienced the death of self, your spiritual life will have little real progress.

God's way of salvation is in Christ, not in your own self. Patience is in Christ, humility is in Christ, holiness is in Christ. All is in Christ. In you, yourself, there is always uncleanness and unholiness. If you live in Christ, you have everything. But if you live in your self, you remain unchanged. UNITED

Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves. In the degree that we look off unto Him to that degree are we delivered from self. We rest on the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ, not on our own shifting experience. True spiritual life depends not on probing our feelings and thoughts from dawn to dusk but on looking off to the Savior!

we make self the center of everything and take the Lord merely as a helper to us. Indeed, God wants to bless us; but He desires even more greatly for us to enter His kingdom and to be under His government.

And I had loved her, I had at least once in my life been capable of that, able to escape my self long enough to love. Suddenly, the unacknowledged sorrows and blunders of my life surged up in me all at once. I thought I would be sick. I gasped, put my hand over my mouth until tears began collecting on my fingers. I took my hand away and looked at it as if I had just discovered I was bleeding.

Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.

You are what you choose to be today. Not what you've chosen to be before.

Once you believe in yourself and see your soul as divine and precious, you'll automatically be converted to a being who can create miracles.

As You Think, So Shall You Be.