Self Quotes

... nothing that happened could ever hurt the most important part of her, nothing that happened outside herself could ever make her less than what God had meant for her to be.

~ Klavan

The things she said seemed to have very little relation to the last thing she had said a minute before. She was the sort of person, Tommy thought, who might know a great deal more than she chose to reveal.

~ Agatha Christie

An individual, a thing apart from its environment, and apart from all things in that environment; an individual was a type of thing for which symbols were inadequate, and so names were invented . I am invented. I am not a round warm blue room. I am someone in that room; I am—

~ Samuel R. Delany

Dance with your sacred rhythm.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To enter your true self,check your ego at the door.

~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen

You are a sacred-being.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Darkness is a knife that peels away the rind of what you think you know about yourself. The shades of your pretenses, the tones of your illusions, the layers of deception that glaze your life into the colors that tint your world–all mean nothing in the darkness. No one can see them, not even you.Darkness hides everything except who you really are

~ Matthew Woodring Stover

If you keep finding yourself in the same situations, the Universe is prompting you to confront self! YOU are the common denominator.

~ Sanjo Jendayi

You are precious and special possession of God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

it feels nice to know about things and about oneself.

~ Aporva Kala

You'll never understand me as long as you're looking at me through society's lenses.

~ Robert Tew

Egotism fears its own self.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

Be good to yourself.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Normality does not exist. There is no such a thing as normal. The social norms that guide most people are not always normal for everyone. Behaviours and actions that are abnormal for most people may be considered normal for others, so therefore normality does not exist. Stay true to yourself; never be ashamed of doing what feels right to you at any giving moment, decide what feels right to you and do it. Don’t be normal, be yourself.

~ Ray Mancini

X-sacred.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Who am I, when all I’ve ever believed myself to be, is fading before my very eyes?Am I still me, or just a shadow of what I used to be?Was I just an illusion that lived only in my head?Did I paint myself as something more than I really am?And with all these changes in my life… What will be left of the woman who dreamed her dreams?When all the colors that she wrapped herself with… are slowly being stripped away…Copyright © Eeva Lancaster

~ Eeva Lancaster

It was something he had always done - moved apart, so he could be alone and think things or a little.

~ Larry Mcmurtry

Some of the pain released, and love filled the cleared space, uniting, magnetizing more self-love to it.

~ Colleen Chen

Don't expect anything except yourself.

~ Goitsemang Mvula

There's more than one way to be a person. Actually, there are more than two or three ways. You'd think that was obvious, but I find that often it is not. The world is essentially a collection of teams. Life is a process of deciding which ones we're going to join.

~ Meghan Daum

Righteousness gives strength.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Solitude is the spirituality of the soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The problem with holiness is that once we look into the face of it we are no longer capable of taking that which is odious and filthy and somehow pretending that it’s translucent and clean. In other words, we have to do one of the most revolting things possible; we have to face ourselves.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The belief that personality is mysterious and irreducible has no scientific warrant, and is accepted chiefly because it is flattering to our human self esteem.

~ Bertrand Russell

I find myself in the moment of solitude.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Great faith, Great spirit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Grace-divine gives power for spirit of light to exist as a sacred-self.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Never give up on yourself.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Your life is a divine self.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Listen to your instincts, you will make the best-choices.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Beware of your thoughts, for they are not YOU!

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

To live more for God and others one must die more to self and sin.

~ Orrin Woodward

For the only slavery is desire, and he who learns to let go, to climb the wind-swept hills of self-becoming, naked of all possessions and desire, will drink the mountain air of freedom, and find the peace that lies not in the satisfaction but in the controlling of desire.

~ Christmas Humphreys

Keep experimenting, your divine self!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Only by externalization, by entering into social relationships, can we develop the interiority of our own person.

~ Jürgen Habermas

Hold tight to what is most yourself,Don't squander it, don't let your lifeBe governed by what disturbs you.

~ Abu Al-Ala Al-Ma'arri

Charity: begins at home and remains there. When it goes out, it's because it wants to brag about itself

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

aphorism 90: I am incorrigible. I would have every object of the universe mechanically predictable but myself.

~ Matt Berry

Do you really know yourself so well or are you making it up?' she asks. Some things I concoct, some I glean from my senses, most I thirst for.

~ Erri De Luca

On a morning like this, fear is a blue sky emptied of birds.

~ Fran Wilde