Quotes about Self

I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.

Today we have discovered the word that could not be said. I

A man's spirit is his self. That entity which is his consciousness. To think, to feel, to judge, to act are functions of the ego.

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

Man is an end in himself.

Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

This, my body and spirit, this is the end of the quest. I wished to know the meaning of things. I am the meaning. I wished to find a warrant for being. I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

In my experience, you will truly serve only what you love because service is love made visible. If you love your friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money, you will serve your money and, if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself and you will have only yourself. So no winning. Instead, try to love others and serve others and hopefully find others that love and serve you in return.

I must change in order to change the world. The only revolution with any permanent value takes part in the breast of the individual person.

Your ability to get along with others flows naturally from how well you are getting along with yourself from your own internal peace and harmony which is itself a function of your peace and harmony with God and your family.

Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have — and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life.

The entire world above you, around you, beneath you, and beside you, is insignificant in comparison to the world within you.