Quotes about Self

In my experience, you will truly serve only what you love because service is love made visible. If you love your friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money, you will serve your money and, if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself and you will have only yourself. So no winning. Instead, try to love others and serve others and hopefully find others that love and serve you in return.

I must change in order to change the world. The only revolution with any permanent value takes part in the breast of the individual person.

Your ability to get along with others flows naturally from how well you are getting along with yourself from your own internal peace and harmony which is itself a function of your peace and harmony with God and your family.

Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have — and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life.

The entire world above you, around you, beneath you, and beside you, is insignificant in comparison to the world within you.

You have little control over the world around you, but full control over the world within you.

And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.

The things that we love tell us what we are.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.

There are four degrees of love: 1) Love of self for self's sake. 2) Love of God for self's sake. 3) Love of God for God's own sake. 4) Love of self for God's sake.

In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.