Quotes about Self
You have little control over the world around you, but full control over the world within you.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.
- Khalil Gibran
The things that we love tell us what we are.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.
- Francis Chan
There are four degrees of love: 1) Love of self for self's sake. 2) Love of God for self's sake. 3) Love of God for God's own sake. 4) Love of self for God's sake.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
- Lady Gaga
Failure is a judgment, an opinion. It stems from your fears, which can be eliminated by love-love for yourself, love for what you do, love for others, and love for your planet.
- Wayne Dyer
Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
- Pierre Corneille
The things we love tell us who we are.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
We are just a little tiny flicker of a much larger flame that is Life itself, Consciousness itself, Being itself, Love itself, God's very self.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Because if the Will be already inclined, before it exerts its own sovereign power on itself, then its inclination is not wholly owing to itself:
- Jonathan Edwards