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Quotes About Self (page 33)

Someone once said to me, said Marguerite, that our home, our special country, is where we find liberation. I suppose she meant that it is where our souls find it easiest to escape from self, and it seem to me that it is that way with us when what is about us echoes the best that we are. Elizabeth Goudge
No prize , however great can justify an ounce of self deception or a small departure of the ugly facts. ( Notes from Underground) Fyodor Dostoevsky
The anxiety engendered by confronting the abyss of nothingness [of the loss of self] is more terrifying than the tortures of hell. In the vision of hell, I am punished and tortured—In the vision of nothingness I am driven to the border of madness—because I cannot say ‘I’ any more. Erich Fromm
M. Scott Peck quote: "I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the..."
I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth. M. Scott Peck
The true inner self must be drawn up like a jewel from the bottom of the sea, rescued from confusion, from indistinction, from immersion in the common, the nondescript, the trivial, the sordid, the evanescent. Thomas Merton
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother..."
Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your word concerning virtue! Friedrich Nietzsche
I want to be remembered as an imaginer, someone who used his imagination as a way to journey beyond the limits of self, beyond the limits of flesh and blood, beyond the limits of even perhaps life itself, in order to discover some sense of order in what appears to be a disordered universe. I'm using my imagination to find meaning, both for myself and, I hope, for my readers."-Clive Barker Clive Barker
You can put a new shirt on your back, slide a fresh chain around your neck, and accumulate all the money and power in the world, but at the end of the day those are just layers. Money and power don't change you, they just further expose your true self. Jay-Z
Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates. George MacDonald
Soren Kierkegaard quote: "Be that self that one is"
Be that self that one is Soren Kierkegaard
His aim was the creation of self sufficient small towns, really very nice towns if you were docile and had no plans of your own and did not mind spending your life with others with no plans of their own. As in all Utopias, the right to have plans of any significance belonged only to the planner in charge.- discussing Ebenezer Howards' Garden City Jane Jacobs
Henry James quote: "What should one do with the misery of the world in a scheme of..."
What should one do with the misery of the world in a scheme of the agreeable for one's self? Henry James
You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self. Phil McGraw
The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous. Margot Fonteyn
A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and suffering for them. In so doing, he really stands in their place. He is not an isolated individual, but incorporates the selves of several people in his own self. Every attempt to live as if he were alone is a denial of the fact that he is actually responsible. He cannot escape the responsibility, which is his because he is a father. This reality refutes the fictitious notion that the isolated... Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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