Of your self Quotes

“Dont you know if you keap getting a head of your self youwl jus only fall over your self when you get to where you are going?”

“All I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect”

“What you think of your self is more important than what others think of you.”

“And when you try to live there, to live in a place where you're betraying yourself over and over, not only do you grow to resent the hell out of it, and resent the hell out of whomever you're betraying and censoring yourself for, but the very idea of your self begins slowly and inexorably to erode. Until you realize one day out of the clear blue that you have no idea who your self is, anymore.”

“I want to feel proud and happy about my selflessness. But what happens when being selfless takes away a big part of your self?”

“The level of your self-control is measured as the difference between how you act when you have nothing and how you react when you have everything.”

“Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are. And this is why love, as I understand it, is always specific. Trying to love all of humanity may be a worthy endeavor, but, in a funny way, it keeps the focus on the self, on the self’s own moral or spiritual well-being. Whereas, to love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you have to surrender some of your self.”

“Don't imprison yourself through self-doubt. Break out of your self-imposed prison with intentional action.”

“To know yourself you must know the transience of your self.”