Quotes About Self

and worry are worthless—indeed, vain—emotions. If you are frightened or afraid, there is no use feeling guilty about it. What you need to do is fix your mind upon God and ask him to fill your mind with himself. And as your mind is transformed, your whole personality will be transformed, including your body and your feelings. The transformation of the self away from a life of fear and insufficiency takes place as we fix our minds upon God as he truly is.

Here's one from me: 'You have to be aware that everyone else is thinking far too hard about themselves to be thinking about you, whoever you are.' If you want it, you can have it. Once you know that, you can be free.

Past a certain point, maybe, a person's character defines itself and stays fixed in your mind.

if you are names without a nature, it's not because I don't remember, no, the opposite is true, you are remembered in me as an endless stirring and turning. But it's for this precisely that you must forgive me, because in every story of obsession there's only one character, only one plot. I am writing about myself alone, it's all I know, and for this reason I have always failed in every love, which is to say at the very heart of life.

Disillusionment takes us to the question: what does it profit a man if he gains this world and loses himself? And disillusionment exposes that while we were supposedly serving the kingdom, we somehow became the king, and when we thought we were following Jesus, we inexplicably made him a servant of our dreams. The only real tragedy is the leader who never allows disillusionment to wear him to a nub and expose the godlessness of his busyness.

You're the hero of your own story.

Never forget you are a miracle

Abandon the search for God... instead, take yourself as the starting place.

I am a good person because I am a good person! God has nothing to do with it!

Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom. - Buddha

Everyday I create myself...

Well, this machine is no more me than your physical brain is you. Observing your own brain in a bowl, you would not say, 'That object is me.' We are the sum of the interactions taking place within the mechanism.

Each of us is a God, Buddha had said. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom. It

RELIGION CANNOT CLAIM MORALITY AS ITS OWN … I AM A GOOD PERSON BECAUSE I AM A GOOD PERSON! GOD HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT!

Each of us is a God, Buddha had said. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.

My body is but a vessel for my most potent treasure … my mind.

Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom. It

Finally, he pulled out Edmond's cell phone and reread the Winston Churchill screen-saver quote about shaping one's own legacy. History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.

Does a human life, a personality, exist as a single thread that can be followed through time? Is the me of 20 years ago the same me that exists now? Will I still be me in 20 years?

Anxiety!" he said. "I've been there, plenty of times! And, you know, it's particularly hard during the first one, especially, because you're so invested in that idea of self. You grew up with that concept—you think there's a real you—and you have some longstanding attachments, people you've known, and you start to think about them. People you have to leave behind—

You look up for a moment and you're not sure which life is real. You've split yourself into so many honeycombed parts that they barely notice each other---all of them pacing, concurrently, parallel streams of though, and each one thinks of its self as me.

Responsibility is a grace you give yourself not an obligation

Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are whether it's greedy or loving.

Happiness is not just something you feel — it is who you are.