Quotes About Self

This is I. I am as you see me. I do not care to be otherwise.

It is sweet to be loved, but to be able to love is to possess the life force. I love you. Therefore I am strong. Whatever my age, I am sustained by my own power to love.

No, they were there, these missionaries, to fulfill some spiritual need of their own. It was a noble need, its purposes unselfish, partaking doubtless of that divine need through which God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son for its salvation. But somewhere I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself.

steadily for a few minutes because Leah was so beautiful. She looked at herself in the mirror on her dressing table, and it seemed to her that all

We're not trying to be something we aren't; rather, we're rediscovering, reconnecting with who we are.

That which is threatening to ego is liberating to the heart.

There are four maras. The first mara is called devaputra mara. It has to do with seeking pleasure. The second one, called skandha mara, has to do with how we always try to re-create ourselves, try to get some ground back, try to be who we think we are. The third mara is called klesha mara. It has to do with how we use our emotions to keep ourselves dumb or asleep. The fourth one, yama mara, has to do with the fear of death.

We sometimes think that dharma is something outside of ourselves—something to believe in, something to measure up to. However, dharma isn't a belief; it isn't dogma. It is total appreciation of impermanence and change.

Dharma is the study of what is , and the only way you can find out what is true is through studying yourself.

Anger's like a battery that leaks acid right out of me And it starts from the heart til it reaches my outer me

Anger simply means that your personal power - your personal space, your personal sense of being - has been violated

Some werewolves are hairy on the inside.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Anger - a beast within us that needs taming.

Do not let your anger lead to hatred, as you will hurt yourself more than you would the other.

Bodybuilding is an art, your body is the canvas, weights are your brush and nutrition is your paint. We all have the ability to turn a self portrait into a masterpiece.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.

Express yourself through your art - whether it's your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick, or the clothes that you wear.

Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.

Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.