Quotes about Self
We tend to get what we expect - both from ourselves and from others. When we expect more, we tend to get more; when we expect less, we tend to get less.
— Stephen Covey
Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.
— Alexander Hamilton
Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me
— Alice Walker
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us
— Teresa of Avila
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
— CS Lewis
We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God
— Thomas Merton
If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
— Dale Carnegie
In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your peace of heart.
— Thomas Merton
I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.
— John Lennon
Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
— Peter Kreeft