Our Self Quotes
234 quotes by 173 authors
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Books gave us a way to shape ourselves - to form our thoughts and to signal to each other who we were and who we…
— Rebecca Mead
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Our abilities and possibilities are at one and the same time very limited and quite infinite dependent on the depth of our relationship to our…
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
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When we don’t put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our actions.
— Zeena Schreck
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Jesus did not die to increase our self-esteem. Rather, Jesus died to bring glory to the Father by redeeming people from the curse of sin.
— Edward T Welch
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As we lose our vagueness about ourself, our values, our life situation, we become available to the moment. It is there, in the particular, that…
— Julia Cameron
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We like to look for patterns and find connections in unrelated events. This way we can explain them to ourselves. Life seems neater, or at…
— Jessica Zafra
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Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future.
— William Arthur Ward
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We cannot afford the still-birth of new ideas that lack the life force that comes from the depths. We are called to return to the…
— Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
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Silence is the language of Om. We need silence to be able to reach our Self. Both internal and external silence is very important to…
— Amit Ray
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I knew that was really the only purpose of life: to be our self, live our truth, and be the love that we are.
— Anita Moorjani
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How can we embrace rest and play if we've tied our self-worth to what we produce?
— Brené Brown
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Being preoccupied with our self-image is like being deaf and blind. It's like standing in the middle of a vast field of wildflowers with a…
— Pema Chodron
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The lies most devastating to our self-esteem are not so much the lies we tell as the lies we live.
— Nathaniel Branden
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Unless our fundamental sacred connectedness with every being and thing is experienced deeply and enacted everywhere, religious, political, and other differences will go on creating…
— Andrew Harvey
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Place no hope in the feeling of assurance, in spiritual comfort. You may well have to get along without this. Place no hope in the…
— Thomas Merton
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The physical body is conceived and constructed in consciousness as are time and space. All happens within our self.
— Deepak Chopra
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Our motive is not to prove our self-worth, but to live up to our possibilities.
— Nathaniel Branden
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The foundation for our self-image is grounded in the first three years of life. It comes from our major caretaker's mirroring.
— John Bradshaw
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Symbols give us our identity, our self image, our way of explaining ourselves to ourselves and to others. Symbols in turn determine the kinds of…
— Mary Robinson
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Any human being exists only as a member of the wider community of life, air, water, and soil. We have no existence apart from the…
— Michael Dowd
Who Wrote These Our Self Quotes
173 authors contributed a total of 234 Our Self Quotes, led by these top contributors: