Quotes about Self

If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.

Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.

The chance you had is the life you've got. You can make complaints about what people, including you, make of their lives after they have got them, and about what people make of other people's lives, even about the you children being gone, but you mustn't wish for another life. You mustn't want to be somebody else. What you must do is this: 'Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks.

The only time Tol's clothes looked good was before he put them on.

My Mind became the root of my life rather than its sublimation.

Your outside is just what you live in, sleep in, and has little connection with who you are and even less with what you do.

ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crises with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.

He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself.

In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep you are not. And when you are filled with sleep you never were.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. (1778 - 1830)

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.