Quotes about Self

I said "Somebody should do something about that." Then I realized I am somebody.

Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful, " then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters.

Me miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep, Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.

Accuse not nature, she hath done her part do thou but thine, and be not diffident of wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thou dismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh, by attributing overmuch to things less excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven.

We are all worms. But I do believe that I am a glowworm. WINSTON CHURCHILL

Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substnace of all false religion in the world.

God is the one being in the universe for whom self-exaltation is the most loving thing. Anyone else who exalts himself distracts us from what we need, namely, God.

The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness.

God loves us by liberating us from the bondage of self so that we can enjoy knowing and admiring him forever.

The fears that the few good things that make you happy are slipping through your fingers, and the frustrations that the bad things you hate about yourself or your situation can't be changed—these fears and these frustrations are what Christmas came to destroy.