Quotes about Self
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
- Aldous Huxley
I am I, and I wish I weren't.
- Aldous Huxley
We really focus when we compete, not about the placement so much, just about us having our moment.
- Scott Moir
Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ.
- Tullian Tchividjian
It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
- DH Lawrence
The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha.
- Carl Jung
I love Shillington not as one loves Capri or New York, because they are special, but as one loves one's own body and consciousness, because they are synonymous with being.
- John Updike
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
He that believeth that he believe, believeth himself and not God (333)[.]
- Richard Baxter
Much of what is called Christianity has more to do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than any real movement toward a God beyond the small self, and a new self in God.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
All we can give back and all God wants from any of us is to humbly and proudly return the product that we have been given—which is ourselves!
- Fr. Richard Rohr