Self Quotes

The words ‘I love you’ are worthless when you don’t know who the 'I' is in that statement.

~ Jaime Reed

I’d have to prove to everyone, including Ellia, that I was more than some guy she used to know, that what we shared had and still mattered. She may have forgotten the promise we made on the beach, but I hadn’t, and it was up to me to backup those words with action. Memories and ghosts were for the dead. Living things moved, and I was never one to stand still. ~Liam

~ Jaime Reed

She was my go-to person. I’d tell her everything. Now, all of those late-night phone calls, all the sleepovers at her house because I couldn’t deal with stuff at home, all the crying on her shoulder. It’s all gone. It’s like if she doesn’t know, then it didn’t happen, and if it didn’t happen then what exactly am I holding on to?” ~Stacey

~ Jaime Reed

Who cares about fault? As my dad would say, ‘Blame is like your rear-end and reflection. Seeing either always leaves you looking back.’ I’m more worried about what’s in front of me. And right now . . . the view is all messed up.” ~ Ellia

~ Jaime Reed

It’s like returning to a familiar room and noticing objects had been moved while you were gone—a chair here, a picture frame there. Items that were once brand new were suddenly broken in and worn from age. It was all very subtle, but enough to suspect paranormal activity or a cruel practical joke. When no one else saw what you saw, the freak factor really kicked in, because you were singled out and left questioning reality. ~Ellia

~ Jaime Reed

Hope can be foolish or misguided, but there was no such thing as false hope. Hope was always true even when there was no evidence to support its claim.” - Liam

~ Jaime Reed

Love is not for thrill-seekers, dreamers, or children with short attention spans. And you, son, fit into all three of those categories.

~ Jaime Reed

Use your special gifts to create work for yourself.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Dare to be you.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Good self-esteem comes from positive self-imaging. Positive self-image make you to resist wrong definitions others give about you, guiding you to live life with enthusiasm and will!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.

~ Criss Jami

Your expectation of something unique and dramatic, of some wonderful explosion, is merely hindering and delaying your Self Realization. You are not to expect an explosion, for the explosion has already happened - at the moment when you were born, when you realized yourself as Being-Knowing-Feeling. There is only one mistake you are making: you take the inner for the outer and the outer for the inner. What is in you, you take to be outside you and what is outside, you take to be in you. The mind and feelings are external, but you take them to be intimate. You believe the world to be objective, while it is entirely a projection of your psyche. That is the basic confusion and no new explosion will set it right! You have to think yourself out of it. There is no other way.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

You can only get outside yourself by looking inside.

~ Tonya Hurley

Doffing the ego'ssafe glory, he findshis naked reality.

~ Dag Hammarskjöld

It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.

~ Frank Kermode

Barry Schlenker’s self-identity theory (1982) asserts that self-presentation is an attempt to control information about your identity before real or imagined audiences—including yourself. People try to provide explanations of their own conduct; they try to construct an identity that is satisfying to themselves and that explains their behavior in a favorable light. One of the criteria of a good explanation is believability; that is, explanations must fit with existing knowledge. Schlenker argues that people are not motivated to attain cognitive consistency as an end in itself; rather, they need to provide a believable and self -beneficial account of their conduct, and consistency is a by-product of that. The need to provide explanations for your conduct results in the construction of an internally consistent view of reality.

~ James Kennedy

Expectations are nothing more than the rules we set, in order to maintain our ego and self esteem. What we seek from others is often that fulfillment of what we believe we require for happiness. However, many of us will raise the requirements so high that we can't even reach them or better yet, realize that we could find that expectation met by our own introspection and action.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You have to conquer every mountain to realize the dream.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A Coy Aversion...a fluttertoo shyto be seen...

~ Muse

I suspected once that any human life, however intricate and full it might be, consisted in reality of one moment: the moment when a man knows for all time who he is.

~ Jorge Luis Borges

Her name had the likeness of a name. She had the likeness of a woman, with hands but no face at all, since she never let herself see it. She had the likeness of a life, because she was all alone in it. She lived in the likeness of a house, with walls and a roof and a door that kept nothing in and nothing out.

~ Marilynne Robinson

I feel sorry for people who maintain relationships and friendships detrimental to their mental health. Everyone is guilty of it at one time or another- but the idea is to strive to be your best; right? So, meanwhile why are so many people faking it? Security? Fear of loneliness? Fears of independence? Fears of being self ? Or just the idea that you can make someone change? Regardless of the justifications you give & treat yourself to... , I hope all of you - new year -new me types strive for self care , honest and pure friendships and relationships based of love- and not based off the fake realities of your mind. These delusions of what you hope for instead of what's there, where you and your puppet show master focus more on everyone else and less on self. To change the world you must start within. But you must first BE HONEST with yourself. My new year started a few months ago-- and it was the best choice I ever made- and I hope your recreations are progressive and successful in THE NEW YEAR

~ Tiffany Luard

I am all that I have.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

All you need is grace.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Seek to know God and thy sacred self.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Everyone ought to decide his or her own fate.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The greatest achievement is sacred-self-victory.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be you. You are a holy-self.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be you. And everything will be divine-self.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Believe in yourself. You can make it in life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Compare your life only with the commandments of God.Be like God. He is the mighty being that dwells in you.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You can recreate yourself with renewal of your mindset.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What you think of your self is more important than what others think of you.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You are what you think of yourself.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Compare yourself only with the word of God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You are wonderful sacred-soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What God says about you is what matters, than what others may think of you.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Your life is your greatest asset.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Daring life, graceful living.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you are willing to be a self-learner, you will develop yourself.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita