4,826 Quotes About Self

What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.

As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.

If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.

I would rather be old for a shorter time than be old before my time.

I have a vocabulary all my own. I "pass the time" when it is wet and disagreeable. When it is fine I do not wish to pass it; I ruminate it and hold on to it. We should hasten over the bad, and settle upon the good.

We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.

Immaturity is the inability to delay self gratification.

Your self-portait decides your conduct.

There's no wrong way to meditate. And meditation should never be a difficult practice that leads to self criticism.