Inspirational Quotes

Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.

Self Quotes

Psychology Self Symbolism The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha.

Carl Jung

Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst

God Identity Nature Self What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

C. S. Lewis

Authenticity Belief Self Truth If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Saint Augustine

Theologian and philosopher

Authenticity Consistency Self I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

Colin Powell

Mind-Body Connection Physiology Self What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

Aldous Huxley

English writer and philosopher

Interaction Observation Perception Self The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

Bertrand Russell

Former Member of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom