Self Quotes - Page 11

A real friend is one who helps us to think our best thoughts, do our noblest deeds, and be our finest selves.

Until self is discovered and steps of faith taken, destiny cannot be achieved

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.

To the one who views from a larger perspective....everything is a blessing.

Marriage is the union of two 'I's to form a 'V'. Both 'I's have to tilt equally to make a good 'V'. 'I's standing tall can never make a 'V'.

Success - is not about defeating others; but about defeating oneself

What you see, say, think, and believe about yourself affects your feelings, decisions, and actions.

There is a realm in which miracles are possible and do take place. The door to this realm is the belief in all possibilities and YOU are the key.

Smart, Succulent, Simple, Steady, Soulful Self wins the race of life.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

The best thing to learn from any government is that it does not get affacted by what other people talk or think about it.

My past is everything I failed to be.

The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all of my instants would be provisional phases, annihilators of the past turned to face the future, and that beyond the episodic, the present, the circumstantial, we were nobody.

Time stretches and calms, but still we reach, for we belonged then. We want to know. Sometimes that knowledge is painful, or inconvenient, or even damning. But it is essential. It exposes us for what we have been, and can be.

Time is a continuous journey of self-creation.

Her name had the likeness of a name. She had the likeness of a woman, with hands but no face at all, since she never let herself see it. She had the likeness of a life, because she was all alone in it. She lived in the likeness of a house, with walls and a roof and a door that kept nothing in and nothing out.

EVERY WOMAN THAT QUOTES ME IS A PIECE OF SHIT.

We never know how high we are
Till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.

The heroism we recite
Would be a daily thing,
Did not ourselves the cubits warp
For fear to be a king.

You can be a really nasty, selfish little jerk when you're scared enough. I was scared enough.

Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.