Quotes about Self

Indeed, all human troubles come from thinking of God wrongly, which then means, thinking about ourselves wrongly.

This current state of affairs may prevent otherwise thoughtful people from seeing the value of what has traditionally been regarded as the best of "common sense" about life and of what has been preserved in the wisdom traditions of most cultures—especially in two of the greatest world sources of wisdom about the human self, the Judeo-Christian and the Greek, the biblical and the classical.

Spiritual formation is a matter of reworking all aspects of the self.

What God gets out of our lives—and, indeed, what we get out of our lives—is simply the person we become.

And worry are worthless—indeed, vain—emotions. If you are frightened or afraid, there is no use feeling guilty about it. What you need to do is fix your mind upon God and ask him to fill your mind with himself. And as your mind is transformed, your whole personality will be transformed, including your body and your feelings. The transformation of the self away from a life of fear and insufficiency takes place as we fix our minds upon God as he truly is.

The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.

"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

If it's not making you better, it isn't love. True love makes you more of who you are, not less.

When I turned 40, I was like, huh. I accept myself more now. It was much more comforting.

If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.

Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.

The chance you had is the life you've got. You can make complaints about what people, including you, make of their lives after they have got them, and about what people make of other people's lives, even about the you children being gone, but you mustn't wish for another life. You mustn't want to be somebody else. What you must do is this: 'Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks.