“ My dear friends, from the devil's standpoint there is not the slightest difference between being puffed up with pride in yourself or spending the whole of your time condemning yourself. Either way the… Martyn Lloyd-Jones
“ Loyalty to others speaks volumes about loyalty to self. To love others, one must truly love him/herself first. Peprah Boasiako
“ The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. Reinhold Niebuhr
“ The same virtues, in the end, the same virtue (love), are required throughout, and fantasy (self) can prevent us from seeing a blade of grass just as it can prevent us from seeing another person. An i… Iris Murdoch
“ A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don't want to see. If we refuse to face our shadow, it will p… Terry Tempest Williams
“ To say something nice about themselves this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. Nancy Friday
“ Because the fact of not being understood by other people had become my only real source of pride, I was never confronted by any impulse to express things and to make others understand something that I… Yukio Mishima
“ Meanwhile, the self can stand in the way of the Not-Self, interfering with the free flow of spiritual grace, this maintaining the self in a state of blindness, and also with the flow of animal grace,… Aldous Huxley
“ Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea. Matthew Arnold
“ Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. Henri Frederic Amiel
