4,826 Quotes About Self

Our greatest enemy is devious enough to tell us that we are our greatest asset, and that the investment of the whole of ourselves into the whole of ourselves represents the whole of our life. But what the person in the mirror is not telling you is what kind of ‘hole’ that will actually dig.

If you’re not all that fond of the image in the mirror, don’t get rid of the mirror. Rather, get rid of the people that shaped what you’re seeing in the mirror.

Of myself, I am not the end of anything. But in God’s hands, I can be the beginning of many things.

There are ribbons that ensnare, itseems, though I cannot feel theserestraints: a tangle of sharedunderstandings, expectations, values,and obligations that demarcate sentientboundaries and frame the articulationof essence. Yet, there is also something rather arbitrary and inadequate aboutthese ribbons and their juxtaposition.

If the person that I trust the least is the one by which I set the standard for everyone else, I had better learn to trust myself more.

Forgive yourself for what you had to do while in survival mode and move forward.

I lectured that the family home was a deposit box of emotions, and that reading other people's diaries was just another opportunity to encounter yourself.

Sitting at the tables of cafés in the cities I visited, I found myself thinking that everything tasted to me of dreams, of emptiness. I sometimes found myself wondering if I was still sitting at the table of out old house, motionless and dazzled by dreams! I cannot promise you that this is not what is happening, that I am not still there now, that all this, including this conversation with you, is false and imaginary. Who are you, by the way? The absurd thing is that you don’t know either...

You are unique. There’s no one else like you. Nobody can be better than you because nobody else is you. Nobody has your distinctive talents and traits.