Self Quotes - Page 38

I always wore sneakers when I wanted to. It was always about being comfortable and being myself.

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.

We are forever looking outside ourselves, seeking approval and striving to impress others. But living to please others is a poor substitute for self-love, for no matter how family and friends may adore us, they can never satisfy our visceral need to love and honor ourselves.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

Your Destiny is chosen by God, Your future is certain, whether you arrive there is up to you

Loving yourself...does not mean being self-absorbed or narcissistic, or disregarding others. Rather it means welcoming yourself as the most honored guest in your own heart, a guest worthy of respect, a lovable companion

I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings.

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.

Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.

If I abuse myself daily, who can I love?

Lifestyles are routined practices, the routines incorporated into habits of dress, eating, modes of acting and favoured milieux for encountering others; but the routines followed are reflexively open to change in the light of the mobile nature of self-identity.

Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

The fruit of the Spirit is . . . self-control

Kids look up to me. I'm not saying I make my music for kids, I do what I feel, its just a self reflection of how I am as a person and it relates to a lot of people.

If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.

If you don't know yourself, you don't know your nature. If you don't know your nature, you don't know where to exist. By knowing your nature, knowing yourself, you know what to be and how to live. And that only comes from knowledge of self, knowing yourself.

A goal of education is. to assist growth toward greater complexity and integration and to assist in the process of self-organization - to modify individuals capacity to modify themselves.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.