Quotes about Self

God changes not what is in a people, until they change what is in themselves.

I call myself 'Christ-leaning,' but that's primarily psychological.

The idea that you have to pursue greatness... it's up to you; it's your life.

I don't think there's anybody that puts more pressure on himself than I do.

I believe we all serve someone in this life. For the first thirty-eight years of mine, I served myself. My conversion was not a highly emotional experience. It was a conscious, thought-out decision that changed my focus, my direction, my heart, my life.

What does a mirror look at?

To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.

Ve?ina ljudi nije dovoljno jaka za pronalaženje slobode u sebi.

Paul heard his mother's grief and felt the emptiness within himself. I have no grief , he thought. Why? Why? He felt the inability to grieve as a terrible flaw.

The flesh surrenders itself, he thought. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not . . . yet, I occurred.

Humans live best when each has his own place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person. You and I, Thufir, of all those who love the Duke, are most ideally situated to destroy the other's place.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.