Quotes on About Yourself

You make some big grandoise decision about what you need to do, or who you need to be, and then circumstances arise that immediately reveal to you how little you understood about yourself.

Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.

Surely you don’t disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don’t really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.

The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.

Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself.

It is better to forget about yourself altogether.