Quotes about Self

Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air. Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being. In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me.

I'm demonaic, I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself!

Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, though canst never return!

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It's your call.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

As the entertainment industry became more corporate and MBA-driven, Harvey Weinstein remained an unreconstructed specimen of the worst and most compelling character traits of a truer Hollywood. Harvey, and in a sense only Harvey, continued to embody the Hollywood self.

For me, it's just staying myself, trusting the process, trusting the game, just going through my reads at the end of the day.

I will attract into my life what I am, not what I want.

You don't get what you want in life. You get who you are.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.