top of page
"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Self-Hood quotes

"Black Girls. Always remember: It's so easy, and it takes very little effort, to be like the next person. Don't insult yourself like that. Be yourself! Walk YOUR walk. Talk YOUR talk. Be uniquely YOU in everything that you do. A confident woman who has a strong sense of self is quite beautiful. Allow your light to shine from the inside out. Self - love is the greatest love of all. Love, respect, and be good to yourself, first! You matter! You count! And you're important, too!"

"There is no denial that the lack of self-love conditions many to feel unimportant or irrelevant."

"We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better."

"We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is to be alone, and the mind that is alone is not only innocent but young -- not in time or age, but young, innocent, alive at whatever age -- and only such a mind can see that which is truth and that which is not measurable by words."

"Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity."

"Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person."

"Self - Worth. Self - Love. Self - Esteem. Self - Motivation. Self - Confidence. All of these things equal Self - Empowerment. Always believe in yourself, even if nobody else does!"

"You are the most important person in your life. Your relationship with yourself defines your relationships with every other person you encounter. Celebrate yourself and celebrate all those around you."
Explore more quotes by Carl Jung

"The psychotherapist learns little or nothing from his successes. They mainly confirm him in his mistakes while his failures on the other hand are priceless experiences in that they not only open up the way to a deeper truth but force him to change his views and methods."

"If I want to understand an individual human being, I must lay aside all scientific knowledge of the average man and discard all theories in order to adopt a completely new and unprejudiced attitude. I can only approach the task of understanding with a free and open mind, whereas knowledge of man, or insight into human character, presupposes all sorts of knowledge about mankind in general."

"Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived lives of the parents."

"Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness."

"Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence."

"But there is no energy unless there is a tension of opposites, hence it is necessary to discover the opposite to the attitude of the conscious mind."

"But the shadow is merely somewhat inferior, primitive, unadapted, and awkward; not wholly bad. It even contains childish or primitive qualities which would in a way vitalize and embellish human existence, but convention forbids!"
bottom of page