Self Quotes

When you submit yourself to God and obey Him, you allow Him to do what He desires in your life. You make it possible for Him to lead you wherever He wants to use you.

~ Jim George

She thought back to what he had said. /I could make you very happy./ It was something men said then, when they were trying to persuade you, and that was what they meant. It seemed rash and sweeping to her, dazzling but *presumptuous*. She had to try to see herself, then, as somebody who could be /made happy/. The whole worrying, striving, complicated bundle of her -- was that something that could just be picked up and /made happy/?

~ Alice Munro

My job as a coach isn't to 'fix' people it is to 'break' them and empower them to connect to their spirit and trust that they will be re-built into a new improved version given a little time and patience.

~ Rebecca O'dwyer Centred Woman

A journey through nature is always a road thatleads to self-discovery.

~ Toni Sorenson

A journey through nature is always a road to leads to self-discovery.

~ Toni Sorenson

We can never see what we never question, for we who escapes, blinds us

~ Farley Maglaya

I was the chain that bit into my ankle, and I was the ruthless guard that never slept.

~ Haruki Murakami

A self needed to spill out sometimes, a body should show evidence of what the hell went on inside it.

~ Ben Marcus

Conversion of our views of self in light of God is continual. We daily have to take the time to notice and trust in who he is in order to understand who we are. The book of Romans assures us that God's Spirit will fill each moment of our lives if we notice and trust the way he is repairing our humanity.

~ Holly Sprink

I keep everything hidden because there's nothing about my true self that anyone likes. I'm not difficult, Sebastian. I'm the easiest person around. I don't belong, and I spend all my time pretending I do. Sometimes I get weary of it, and that makes me angry.It's not fair to the people around me when I lose my temper. I say awful things when I'm angry. But it's not fair to me, either, that I was made this way.

~ Courtney Milan

And I'm made up of everyone I've ever met who's changed the way I think. So who is me?

~ Terry Pratchett

I once heard a tale of a man who split himself in two.The one part never changed at all; the other grew and grew.The changeless part was always true, The growing part was always new,And I wondered, when the tale was through, Which part was me, and which was you.

~ Orson Scott Card

In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for that might be our fault.

~ C.s. Lewis

The flight away from self to God is not a forgetting self in the sense that man thereby loses himself. Rather, in the experience of the Spirit there is bestowed on man the deepest possible experience of himself: for the Holy Spirit is a Spirit of revelation which illuminates the human spirit, in which it is immanent, by telling man what he is.

~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar

A true legacy is established over a lifetime and relates to what a human being does for others, not for himself.

~ Bill Courtney

When the rose opens its heart, you will smell the fragrance of its soul.

~ Jit Sharma

The flight away from self to God is not a forgetting self in the sense that man thereby loses himself. Rather, in the experience of the Spirit there is bestowed on man the deepest possible experience of himself: for the Holy Spirit is a Spirit of revelation which illuminate the human spirit, in which it is immanent, by telling man what he is.

~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar

In that moment, I felt differently to myself yet the essence of who I really was.Like a perfect state of balance.

~ Tim Relf

You are accompanied through life, Emily Jesse occasionally understood, not only by the beloved and accusing departed, but by your own ghost too, also accusing, also unappeased.

~ A.s. Byatt

Our real Self does not ask questions, as it does not require answers. It is there, it is present Now. We are only able to find it if we forget about questions and submit to the Self, radiating its light in the Present!

~ Frank Wanderer

I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Between you and you, let there be no secrets. ~T.F. Hodge

~ T.f. Hodge

Our abilities and possibilities are at one and the same time very limited and quite infinite dependent on the depth of our relationship to our 'self', others and life itself.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

i was told i was conceited today.... but being conceited would imply that i see my self as being absolutely perfect.... but come on lets be real ........ EVERYONE KNOWS IM PERFECT.

~ Arik Maldonales

To the extent that we retain the critical attitudes and destructive elements we have incorporated into our own personalities, we remain undifferentiated from our parents throughout our lifetime.

~ Lisa Firestone

They implicitly trust that their thoughts, beliefs, and feelings are their own, and fail to recognize that they may be “channeling” someone else’s thoughts and feelings.

~ Lisa Firestone

He liked what he had too much.

~ Tim Relf

I really wanted to take her photo, so I walked up to the nearest adult and asked, 'Does she belong to you?' Suddenly the music stopped, and I heard: 'I belong to myself!

~ Brandon Stanton

Am I in love? – yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn't wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.

~ Roland Barthes

That was with me for years--feeling I wasn't myself. And I do think I wasn't my real self then. Of course, I'm not sure there is such a thing as a real self. You could ransack your innards looking for the real you and never find it--slice yourself open and all you'll find is blood and muscle and bone.

~ Ryū Murakami

Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves - their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.

~ Peter F. Drucker

Be grateful for every scar life inflicts on you. Where we’re unhurt is where we are false. Where we are wounded and healed is where our real self gets to show itself. That’s where you get to show who you really are

~ Sara Gran

When I turn my mind's eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things...

~ René Descartes

If you can't please yourself some of the time, how do you expect to please people all the time? Not everyone is going to appreciate you for your efforts and deeds.

~ Anthony Liccione

For at some point, each of us will be asked to embody what we feel and know.

~ Chang-Rae Lee

Human nature, essentially changeable, unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it renders everything asunder, the wall, and the bonds and its very self.

~ Franz Kafka

Truth is a relationship. As such, each one of us receives the truth and expresses it from within, that is to say, according to one's own circumstances, culture, and situation in life.

~ Pope Francis

I think I possess because I do not try to give,Trying to give, I see that I have nothing.

~ René Daumal

There are often beams in our eye that we know not of. Let us therefore ask that our eye may become single, for then we ourselves shall become wholly single.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

I always believed that If I’m not carrying at least a slight poetically painful crack in my heart I’ve been cheated by nature.

~ Annie Ali