Self Quotes - Page 7

• So many people seem to spend their lives trying to appear normal, predictable and consistent to themselves and those that surround them. They just end up bored with themselves, bereft of any depth of inner resources, suffocated by the inhibitions that defend their own monolithic identities.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Life, People, Bored

  "Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 1995.

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• There is actually only one thing you can dedicate to God, and that is your right to yourself. If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you - and His experiments always succeed.

  Oswald Chambers

  Inspirational, God, Christian

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.58, Discovery House

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• Business is always a struggle. There are always obstacles and competitors. There is never an open road, except the wide road that leads to failure. Every great success has always been achieved by fight. Every winner has scars.The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will-power to develop themselves. So choose to be among the few today.

  Chris Kirubi

  Moving On, Success, Perseverance

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• When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Life, Freedom, Real

  "Forgiveness: You Can’t Have It Both Ways" by Maria Mayo, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2012.

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• Most traditional methods of working on oneself are mostly pain centered. People get to repeat over and over their painful emotions without knowing how to use the body's own inherently positive direction and force.

  Eugene Gendlin

  Inspirational, Positive, Pain

  "Secrets Your Body May Not be Sharing" by Marilyn Harding, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2017.

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• Often a healing takes place in ourselves as we pray for the healing of others.

  Michael E. DeBakey

  Prayer, Healing, Blessing To Others

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• It's no good being too easily swayed by people's opinions. You have to believe in yourself.

  Donatella Versace

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Believe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Inspirational, Happiness, Mean

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• Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "Song of Myself " l. 1324 (written 1855)

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• Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for.

  Oliver James

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Doing Your Own Thing

  "Fictional character: Jay Corgan". "Raise Your Voice", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Life, Respect

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

  Terry Pratchett

  Depressing, Thinking, Faults

  "Jingo". Book by Terry Pratchett, November 1997.

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• I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

  Anna Freud

  Inspirational, Positive, Strength

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  You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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• In advanced meditation you become light. You transcend self, ego, time, space, and dimensionality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Space, Meditation

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  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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• Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

  Louise Hay

  Love, Marriage, Confidence

  Louise Hay (2016). “Mirror Work: 21 Days to Heal Your Life”, p.33, Hay House, Inc

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• You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

  Louise Hay

  Inspirational, Positive, Self Esteem

  Louise L. Hay (2009). “You Can Heal Your Life”, p.20, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A lot of people, black, white, mexican, young or old, fat or skinny have a problem being true to they self. They have a problem looking in the mirror and looking directly into their own souls. Only reason I am who I am today is because I can look directly into my face and find my soul

  Tupac Shakur

  Mirrors, Who I Am, White

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• Love creates a communion with life. Love expands us, connects us, sweetens us, ennobles us. Love springs up in tender concern, it blossoms into caring action. It makes beauty out of all we touch. In any moment we can step beyond our small self and embrace each other as beloved parts of a whole.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spring, Love Life, Caring

  Jack Kornfield (2010). “The Art Of Forgiveness, Loving Kindness And Peace”, p.67, Random House

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• Discover your deep inner-self
  and from that place spread love in every direction.

  Amit Ray

  Spread, Inner Self

  Amit Ray (2010). “Meditation: Insights and Inspiration”, p.100, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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  Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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