Quotes about Self
I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.
— Emily Bronte
I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you're good, bad things can still happen. And if you're bad, you can still be lucky.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.
— Bede Griffiths
Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ.
— E Stanley Jones
Deep in my soul, I'm secretly a redhead.
— Karren Brady
This may sound a little West Texan to you, but I like it. When I'm talking about.. when I'm talking about myself, and when he's talking about myself, all of us are talking about me.
— George W. Bush
I love to be a working actor, and I love to read scripts as they come in. If I find the script or character that is interesting, I want to transform myself into that character.
— Jaime Camil
You're just constantly outputting, and giving all you know so you don't have time to look inside of yourself and to really reflect. The four years at drama school really gave me that time and space.
— Fala Chen
I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.
— Lady Gaga
To love enemies breaks through the self barrier into divine space.
— Scot McKnight
Oneness cannot be achieved just between God and self; rather, oneness involves God, self, and others, and the world around us.
— Scot McKnight