Self Quotes

I know that I’ve never been perfect. I think we determine what’s perfect to us. I think we understand perfect doesn’t come perfectly. If I was to be bare face or a face full of make up. I won’t be perfect until I determine what I see as perfect enough.

~ T.taylor

What is it we are questing for? It is the fulfillment of that which is potential in each of us. Questing for it is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself. There is nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way you will find, live, become a realization of your own personal myth.

~ Joseph Campbell

It's not the end of the road, it's just the end of the road work.

~ Mary-Ellen Peters

He was a victim of his own integrity, which forced him to do his best, even when he would have preferred to do nothing at all.

~ Irving Stone

Note To Self!I will stay calm and relaxed no matter what confronts me today, tomorrow and everyday forth!

~ Allan Rufus

Self love and forgiveness is a liberation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Education is the key for self liberation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You don't feel like your best self when you fall apart, but you have to fall apart to become your best self.

~ Richie Norton

Aren't we all in varying degrees, captives in our own personal prisons, bound by our limiting habits?

~ Ruthy Alon

It is a full-time job to cope with alien elements from both interpersonal sources and societal influences.

~ Lisa Firestone

Silence embeds thoughts better than speeches. If you are afraid of silence, you are afraid of your thoughts.

~ Rossana Condoleo

Enlightenment is not about cocooning one’s self, but about integrating more fully with both your self and life.

~ Jay Woodman

Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

~ Mary Kay Ash

Sometimes our Biggest Nightmare turns out to be our Biggest Gift. And it all comes down to our attitude. Life will throw us curve balls and disappointments, even heartbreak. But ultimately we can choose if we're going to be Bitter or Better for the experience.

~ Kathryn Orford

First of all, although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own personal salvation for himself in fear and trembling. We can help one another to find the meaning of life no doubt. But in the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for finding himself. If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. You cannot tell me who I am and I cannot tell you who you are. If you do not know your own identity, who is going to identify you?

~ Thomas Merton

Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.

~ George Eliot

He is convinced that the people who might mean something to him will always misjudge him and pass him by. He is not so much afraid of loneliness as he is of accepting cheap substitutes; of making excuses to himself for a teacher who flatters him, of waking up some morning to find himself admiring a girl merely because she is accessible. He has a dread of easy compromises, and he is terribly afraid of being fooled.

~ Willa Cather

Could it be that we lost something because had we not lost it, we would have lost ourselves?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The instinct, quiet inner voice is the voice of the Holy Spirit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Self education is holy mission.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We were created for something higher than ourself.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Always do your best to be yourself. Learn to listen to your inner-voice. This is your true authenticity, this is who you really are. Self-discovery of your inner-self is the path to your destiny...

~ James A. Murphy

You wanted to believe that getting older, growing up, would change everything, transform you into the amazing person you were meant to be. But what if it didn't? What if you had to stay you forever?

~ Jean Thompson

Whatever it is I'm born to do, my fear of failing at it has almost become greater than my desire to figure out what it is.

~ Ann Kidd Taylor

You will manifest your sacred character when you connect to the Creator.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Practical utility, however, is not the ultimate purpose of a liberal arts education. Its ultimate purpose is to help you learn to reflect in the widest and deepest sense, beyond the requirements of work and career: for the sake of citizenship, for the sake of living well with others, above all, for the sake of building a self that is strong and creative and free.

~ William Deresiewicz

When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland, we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletions is a heavy load to carry. Don't carry it.

~ Peter Mcwilliams

Your past isn’t there to decide who you are, it’s there to guide you to a better version of yourself.

~ Toni Sorenson

Your future self is watching you right now through your memories.

~ Aubrey De Grey

If I were to be brutally honest with myself, how often is my journey actually a path designed to circumvent my journey?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

One may escape from the prisons of experience, ideology or philosophy, but it is impossible to escape from the reality of one's innermost self. Understanding this, I had freed myself from nostalgia, and having done so, what remained was to free myself from the prospect of the future.(The Tower)

~ Mark Samuels

There is that gnawing feeling that we are far more than what we believe ourselves to be. Maybe it’s time to believe the gnawing.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sometimes things work just because you think they work. It's as good a definition of faith as any.

~ Stephen King

The strength within us comes from God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Awakening is the ultimate of religion. Religion is, not really, in believing something outside of your being. It is not in believing or following some authoritative figure, the church, temple, organization or any ideological system of belief. Religion is trusting in what is eternal within you.

~ Banani Ray

It is not enough just to believe in Christ. We have to believe that He believes in us so we can believe in ourselves. That’s a sentence that deserves a re-read.

~ Toni Sorenson

Inspiration is not the thing which can be seek, its right within you.

~ Ujas Soni

That is what we are, what we do: nose a net, push push, a net that never exists. The knots in the mesh as strong as our own believing. Our own fears.

~ Peter Heller

And myself? Observe me. There is something to be gained from my surface uses, and perhaps a little more from my lower depths, but my very bottom? That's where I am alone, the observer and the observed.

~ Jeanette Winterson

When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.

~ Lewis Carroll