Quotes about Self

There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.

As an artist, we depend on our face as a source of living.

If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you.

Most people think that to meditate, I should feel a particular special something, and if I don't, then I must be doing something wrong.

I don't think roles help you resolve your issues. I just think they're good markers.

I do not want to be restricted to a particular image.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

I believe the more important thing is your mind and your heart. Those two things are the most ignored parts of our beings.

The aim is not therefore to liberate some 'essential self' by throwing off the burden of government and the State, but to develop the self in creative and voluntary relations with others.

Jesus was not SELFLESS. He did not live as if ONLY other people counted. He knew his value and worth. He had friends. He asked people to help him. At the same time Jesus was not SELFISH. He did not live as if nobody counted. He gave his life out of love for others. From a place of loving union with his Father, Jesus had a mature, healthy 'true self.

The true vocation for every human being is, as Kierkegaard said, "the will to be oneself."5

God never asks us to annihilate the self. We are not to become "non-persons" when we become Christians. The very opposite is true. God intends our deeper, truer self, which he created, to blossom as we follow him.