We must clean the lens of our hearts to see the state of our souls. However, too often the former is too dirty to even know that the latter exists.
Shakespeare and his few peers invented all of us.
Butterflies can't see their wings. They can't see how truly beautiful they are, but everyone else can. People are like that as well.
It has nothing to do with who I am as compared to everyone else. It has everything to do with who I am in companionship with God.
Don't spend your life believing a story about yourself that you didn't write that's been fed to you - that simply you've accepted, embedded and added to. Let the story go and there beneath is the real...
Who you are is too vast to be captured by the reflection of a mirror, classified by the state of your attitude, or categorized by the opinions of others. Therefore, if any of these are defining you, y...
Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the burden of being a victim--letting go of the pain and transforming oneself fr...
What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes? Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. 'Tain't good intentions what paves the road to hell: it's self-justifyin's.
The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.
People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
If we cant laugh at ourselves, do we have the right to laugh at others?
Students usually don't refer to themselves as nerds until someone else accuses them of being one.
He was too many things at once - a boy, a man, and everything in between - and the differing parts of himself seldom came into balance. She found him attractive in that way. Yet the perception saddene...
Your self-reliance, self-appraisal and self- perception depends on how successful you are at knowing who God has created you to become
If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change...
Secularity is a way of being dependent on the responses of our milieu. The secular or false self is the self which is fabricated, as Thomas Merton says, by social compulsions. 'Compulsive' is indeed t...
There's more to clothing than just adornment. It does more than merely change how the world perceives us. It changes how we perceive ourselves.