You know that smell, when you put your nose up to a pine tree?" I told her I did perfectly. "No matter how long it has been, you always will. Like you are storing a part of that tree in your own body. ... Everything stays true. You are yourself, no matter how much you have to change.
Ramona AusubelMots clés change self finding-self losing-self
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi)Mots clés wisdom misattributed world change self cleverness
We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
Alain de BottonMots clés self strangeness newspapers weirdness
If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.
Criss JamiMots clés reality practice self-esteem confidence self winning enemies opposition sports fighting achievement competition striving training searching pressure improvement enemies-and-opposition mirrors athletics rivals academics struggling athletes scrambling practicing
I often think of the image only I can see now, and of which I’ve never spoken. It’s always there, in the same silence, amazing. It’s the only image of myself I like, the only one in which I recognize myself, in which I delight
Marguerite DurasMots clés self
It doesn't matter where you've been, only where you are going.
L.M. FieldsMots clés inspiration hope self motivation
Think of the self that God has given as an acorn. It is a marvelous little thing, a perfect shape, perfectly designed for its purpose, perfectly functional. Think of the grand glory of an oak tree. God’s intention when He made the acorn was the oak tree. His intention for us is ‘… the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.’ Many deaths must go into our reaching that measure, many letting-goes. When you look at the oak tree, you don’t feel that the loss’ of the acorn is a very great loss. The more you perceive God’s purpose in your life, the less terrible the losses seem.
Elisabeth ElliotMots clés inspirational purpose god will self jesus christian glory tree god-s-will oak acorn
It was one of those moments—which sometimes occur only at the interval of years—when a man's moral aspect is faithfully revealed to his mind's eye. Not improbably, he had never before viewed himself as he did now.
Nathaniel HawthorneMots clés self self-awareness mirror-of-my-soul
Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
Alan W. WattsMots clés self enviornment
Badness is of the self, the one, the you or me on our oddy knockies, and that self is made by old Bog or God and is his great pride and radosty. But the not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self.
Anthony BurgessMots clés evil state self badness
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