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Self-hood Quotes


"There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught."



"The best jury of your peers that you'll ever find is well, you. Only you know what you're capable of and what you want to be."


"To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other."


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


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


"You have everything inside you, though you sometimes only recognise certain bits relating to the current stage of your path."


"My worth changes with every choice I make and every action I take. I can choose myself to uselessness or to being valuable."


"People cannot turn you into a foot mat if you clearly know your true self-worth."


"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."
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