Quotes about Self

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

I don't believe anyone who says love, love, love. It means self, self, self.

If I eliminate everything, how will I exist?

To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honour—the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.

Hatred is in my brain, not in my stomach or my skin. It can't be removed like a rash or an ache. Didn't I hate you as well as love you? And don't I hate myself?

We tend to become the decisions we make. The more we choose something, the more we become that something. We are all in the process of solidifying our identities by the decisions we make. With each decision we make, we pick up momentum in the direction of that decision.

We can think of the Matrix as the total web of lies we've internalized that keep us living in contradiction to our true self— the self that is defined by God through Christ alone.

Every shortcoming, every sin, every struggle in the believer's life in one way or another can be traced to the influence of the flesh on our way of seeing and experiencing ourselves in our world—our experienced self-identity.

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.

Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won't be someone else.

All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.