Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.

The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed ... As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, how can you hope to find inward peace.

For a man needs only to be turned around once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost ... not 'til we are lost ... do we begin to find ourselves.

Always there remains portions of our heart into which no one is able to enter, invite them as we may.

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be gainer; for to forget oneself is to be happy.

I am a frail vessel full of errors.

The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is the atheist who does not believe in himself.

When God wishes well unto His servant, He causes him to see the faults of his soul.

In ourselves we harbor the intuition of another evolution, of other possibilities of life.

I shall always preserve my vermilion heart.

The final mystery is oneself.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

The world is as good as you are. You've got to learn to like yourself first. I'm a little screwed up, but I'm beautiful.

But ceremony never did conceal, Save to the silly eye, which all allows, How much we are the woods we wander in.

No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction, like other abstractions equally elusive: the individual, the mind, the society

To search for truth about self is as valuable as to search for truth in other areas of life.

Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small compared to what lies within us.