Quotes about Self

Ultimately, we can never change someone else's behavior—we can only change our own.

What you can become is the miracle you were born to be through the work that you do.

You realize that if you are to change your belief about God, you will also have to change your belief about yourself.

Your central self is totally untouched By grief, confusion, desperation.

The greatest happines of life is the conviction that we are loved-loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

There is a subtle but inescapable connection between the "sacred" attitude and the acceptance of one's in most self.

But beauty itself is not given to us by anyone; it is a power we have within us from the gate, a radiance inside us.

I have talent at playing myself. I don't have a very broad range, but at playing myself I am a wizard. It's more than fun; it's the best job on Earth.

There are only two persons you can never, ever escape, not for one moment, either in time or in eternity: God and yourself.

So nothing can be ours by right, by nature, or by necessity. But one thing is mine by my free choice: the self I give away in love. This is the thing even God cannot do for me. It really is my choice. God can love, but He cannot compel my free love. If it is compelled, it is not free. If it is free, it is not compelled.