4,826 Quotes About Self

God called us to live a holy life by his grace.

We all have an innate feeling of being separate from the world, peering out at life from behind our own little self. But how can we truly be separate from the same world that created us? You can no more disconnect from the universe and it's inhabitants than a wave can extricate itself from the ocean.

Part of what makes the book bizzare is that Whitman, because he wants to stand for everyone, because he wants to be less a historical person than a marker for democratic personhood, can't really write a memoir full of a life's particularities.

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside of them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

She was tired of everyone deciding her life for her. She was ready to figure out who she really was--not what anyone else told her to be.

Is there any escaping the junkshop of the self?

The Self, when finite, is Human and when infinite, is God.

Make an attempt to know yourself out of your comfort zone, you will see how how amazing you are.

We all get to discover who we really are at some point, and when we do, it can be quite unsettling.