Quotes about Self
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
- CS Lewis
We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God
- Thomas Merton
If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Dale Carnegie
In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your peace of heart.
- Thomas Merton
I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.
- John Lennon
Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
- Peter Kreeft
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
- Ayn Rand
You become what you believe.
- Oprah Winfrey
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
- Albert Camus
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
- Walt Whitman
To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude toward Afrika become positive, you'll find that your understanding of and your attitude toward yourself will also become positive.
- Malcolm X