Quotes about Self
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
— Victor Hugo
Of Myself and of Death' (pp. 287—300).
— Karl Barth
Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.
— St. Augustine
Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.
— Aldous Huxley
Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Men think all things would be very glorious if they might be done according to their mind. Perhaps, indeed, they would-but with their glory, not the glory of God.
— John Owen
The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself.
— St. Augustine
The man who lives in division is living in death. He cannot find himself because he is lost; he has ceased to be a reality. The person he believes himself to be is a bad dream.
— Thomas Merton
Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.
— GK Chesterton
Hardly anything else reveals so well the fear and uncertainty among men as the length to which they will go to hide their true selves from each other and even from their own eyes.
— AW Tozer
Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.
— CS Lewis