Quotes about Self
Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
— John Calvin
I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
— Victor Hugo
Of Myself and of Death' (pp. 287—300).
— Karl Barth
Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.
— St. Augustine
Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.
— Aldous Huxley
Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Men think all things would be very glorious if they might be done according to their mind. Perhaps, indeed, they would-but with their glory, not the glory of God.
— John Owen
The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself.
— St. Augustine
The man who lives in division is living in death. He cannot find himself because he is lost; he has ceased to be a reality. The person he believes himself to be is a bad dream.
— Thomas Merton
Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.
— GK Chesterton