Quotes about Self

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

The only true gift is a portion of thyself.

Travelling is a fool's paradise. We owe to our first journeys the discovery that place is nothing. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern Fact, the sad self, unrelenting identical that I fled from.

All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

Everything Real Is Self-Existent.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

God cannot give us happiness apart from Himself, because there is no such thing." —C. S. Lewis

Chesterton says, in essence, that there is a dislocation of humility in our times. We have become more confident in who we are and less in what we believe. Our pride has moved us from the organ of conviction to the organ of ambition, when it is intended to be the other way around. In short, our confidence should be in our message and not in ourselves.