Self Quotes - Page 122

If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

It is not possible that you could ever find yourself anywhere where God was not fully present, fully active, able and willing to set you free.

God created us in such a way that our inner self is in the spiritual world and our outer self is in the physical world. This was so that the spiritual part of us, which belongs in heaven, could be planted in the physical part the way a seed is planted in the ground.

If you're interested in the door to the heavens opening, start with the door to your own secret self.

[To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in the presence of the Queen:] My Lord, I had forgot the fart.

If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?

The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating.

Yes, you can get a man to do just about anything, and you know it. So, what are you going to attract him into doing? Buying you a nice house? Giving you the space to guide your own life? Or, offering his deepest gifts to you and all beings while opening his heart to God? Are you a selfish witch, a self-sufficient witch, or a witch for the sake of drawing your man and all beings open as a gift for all?

Don't belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself.

Study nothing except in the knowledge that you already knew it. Worship nothing except in adoration of your true self. And fear nothing except in the certainty that you are your enemy's begetter and its only hope of healing.

I think they say that when you're breast feeding, you know, your weight kind of slims down. It's a little easier. It's like a workout within itself. It's very tiring actually and you find yourself snacking more often.

Individuality is a real power inherent in all and the development and consequent expression of this power enables one to assume the responsibility of directing his own footsteps rather than stampeding after some self-assertive bell-wether.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!

... the school should be an appendage of the family state, and modeled on its primary principle, which is, to train the ignorant and weak by self-sacrificing labor and love; and to bestow the most on the weakest, the most undeveloped, and the most sinful.

Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support.

All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.

Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.

Single-minded concentration in the direction of your dreams intensifies your desires and increases your self-confidence.

Every act of self-discipline increases your confidence, trust, and belief in yourself and your abilities.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Unfortunately, in seeing ourselves as we truly are, not all that we see is beautiful and attractive. This is undoubtedly part of the reason we flee silence. We do not want to be confronted with our hypocrisy, our phoniness. We see how false and fragile is the false self we project. We have to go through this painful experience to come to our true self.