Quotes about Self

The amateur is often unkind or insensitive to others, but she saves her most exquisite cruelty for herself.

Ambition, I have come to believe, is the most primal and sacred fundament of our being. To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. Not to act upon that ambition is to turn our backs on ourselves and on the reason for our existence. Those

Here's what I think. I think angels make their home in the Self, while Resistance has its seat in the Ego. The fight is between the two. The Self wishes to create, to evolve. The Ego likes things just the way they are.

But this is different for me. These are my demons. This is me. This is the shit I do, no matter how hard I try to stop myself.

Try as we may, we can't change ourselves in any significant way.

Terms don't define our lives; our lives define our terms.

We all have our inner demons.

You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.

some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.

When the church begins to entertain the flock and respond to the cult of self—it is diminished to a mere community center.

Life and death is not a do-it-yourself project.