Quotes about Self

The thing about getting old, Bar," Toot had told me, "is that you're the same person inside." I remember her eyes studying me through her thick bifocals, as if to make sure I was paying attention. "You're trapped in this doggone contraption that starts falling apart. But it's still you. You understand?

It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.

I'm always looking at the dialectic between the truth we believe exists outside ourselves and the truth we invent for ourselves.

And then while we all still waited I understood that the terror of my recurring dream was not about losing just vision, but the whole of myself, whatever that was. What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

First, I got myself born. The worst of the job was up to me.

Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Inside-Out means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self -- with your paradigms, your character, and your motives

What we believe about ourselves and our purpose has a powerful impact on how we live, how we love, and what we learn.

You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.

Quality begins with me. And I need to make my own decisions based on carefully selected principles and values.

Inside-out means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self—with your paradigms, your character, and your motives.