““In Hell you become what you fear yourself to be. In Heaven you may become what you hope yourself to be,” said Lucifer.”

“Others made you into who you were. You made yourself into what you have become.”

Terry Goodkind Chainfire

“Uasti was a good teacher,” he said. “She made you look a little way into yourself, see what you could become.”

Tanith Lee book The Birthgrave

“If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.”

Max Ehrmann (1872–1945) American writer, poet, and attorney

“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”

Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) Dutch philosopher

“Regardless of what you may think about yourself or what you have been told about yourself or what you may have been taught to believe about yourself… THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH YOU. THERE NEVER WAS.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“You look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are you become a better person.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

“There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be. You are too young to know this. You are still becoming. Not being.”

John Fowles book The Magus

“If you forget yourself, you become the universe.”

Hakuin Ekaku (1686–1769) Japanese Zen Buddhist master

“That becomes the revolution, to be idealistic enough that you think you can change the world, and what you find is you can't change anything but yourself.”

Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor