Self Quotes - Page 3

Byron: The luxuries of this place have made me soft.The metal point's gone from my pen, there's nothing left but the feather.
Gutman:That may be true.But what can you do about it?
Byron:Make a departure.
Gutman:From yourself?
Byron:From my present self to myself as I used to be!
Gutman:That's the furthest departure a man could make!

The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.

I like to reinvent myself - it’s part of my job.

Never delete but save the numbers of your enemies.. so that it helps you avoid them better.

The ones who appear to be unemotional are in real the most emotional ones.

If something hurts you, be happy that you have a heart that hurts.

Consider everyone trustworthy until they prove otherwise.

If you cannot value a commitment made by someone else, your own commitments lose their value too.

Two people of similar nature can never get along, it takes two opposites to harmonize.

When you walk,go different roads that take you nowhere,and see your world.

People do not have the power to change situations, situations have the power to change people though.

Everything you experience is a blessing and pushes you toward realizing your true self.

There are just two things that can make you famous.. being noble or notorious.

Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.

The difference between impossible and possible is a willing heart.

Purpose drives the process by which we become what we are capable of being.

It's not about outward appearances but inward significance. A grandeur in the world, but not of the world, a grandeur that the world doesn't understand. That first glimpse of pure otherness, in whose presence you bloom out and out and out.

A self one does not want. A heart one cannot help.

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world.

True, lasting peace comes not through stamping out the ignorance of others, but through cultivating acceptance with ourselves.

Leave if you must. But leave when you are strong, not weak. Leaving should be a choice and not the only option.