Top 100 Self Creation Quotes
#1. In the quiet moments of your day, what do you think and do? When you are with your Self and no one else, how does life proceed for you? Who are you when you are alone? Self-creation is a Holy Experience. It is sacred. It is you, deciding Who You Are.
Neale Donald Walsch
#2. The reason it was so bruising when someone said I was from a rich family is that, like many of us, I'm deeply invested - probably overly so - in the myth of my own self-creation. I like to believe that I got where I am, such as it is, by working hard and charting my own course.
Meghan Daum
#3. Action painting has to do with self-creation or self-definition or self-transcendence; but this dissociates it from self-expression, which assumes the acceptance of the ego as it is, with its wound and its magic.
Hannah Arendt
#4. To remember was an act not of excavation but of self-creation in the present tense.
Laura Secor
#5. I myself find it hard to accept the notion of self-creation from nothing, even given unrestricted chance.
J. L. Mackie
#6. Self-creation never ends. You are continually creating yourself from the field of infinite possibilities. You are, in every moment, born again. And so is everyone else.
Neale Donald Walsch
#7. The naive is what is or appears to be natural, individual, or classical to the point of irony or to the point of continuous alternation of self-creation and self-destruction. If it is only instinct, then it is childlike, childish, or silly; if it is only intention, it becomes affectation.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#8. We give ourselves only to relationships and pursuits that build us up and bolster our efforts at self-justification and self-creation. But this also leads us to disdain and look down on those who do not have the same accomplishments or identity-markers
Timothy Keller
#9. Sense (for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth) is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#10. We are living in the time of self-creation and you can become your own star and this is the essential set that it needs to take that selfie that's going to take you to that next place.
Zac Posen
#12. Life is the constant process of self-creation. We constantly make and remake our personal version of the self. Personal introspection is critical to ascertain who we want to become by ascertaining what traits we wish to eradicate and what qualities we wish to embody.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#13. We believe in self creation. That's why Buddhists believe in the Four Noble Truths.
Dalai Lama
#14. For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being.
C.S. Lewis
#15. The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.
Sue Monk Kidd
#16. When you birth a child, it's like a bloody giving of self to the creation of a life.
Ezra Miller
#17. In understanding and developing your true identity, you can stand on solid ground because you are a person of God's unique creation
Sunday Adelaja
#18. To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?
Pascal Mercier
#19. If you have ever prayed for something and received what you wanted, you engaged in Cosmic Ordering.
Stephen Richards
#21. God created you for His high purpose, discovering and understanding that that purpose is important
Sunday Adelaja
#22. Your life you are living now is a creation of your mind, but if you search deep down you will discover the capacity to create an even better life ... try it!
Stephen Richards
#23. Thoughts become things through action. The most powerful tool for creating changes in your life is attention and action. No action means no creation.
Ilchi Lee
#24. Marriage is not a static state between two unchanging people. Marriage is a psychological and spiritual journey that begins in the ecstasy of attraction, meanders through a rocky stretch of self-discovery, and culminates in the creation of an intimate, joyful, lifelong union.
Harville Hendrix
#25. Life is one large process of creation: Self-Examination and introspection is simply to figure out what you want to create in this moment.
Matthew Donnelly
#27. One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#28. So, here we are - all part of this great hologram called Creation, which is everybody else's SELF.It's all a cosmic play, and there is nothing but you!
Itzhak Bentov
#30. It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.
Mahatma Gandhi
#31. Often we're recreating what we think we're supposed to be as human beings. What we've been told we're supposed to be, instead of who we authentically are. The key about the creation of full self-expression is to be authentically who you are, to project that.
James Cromwell
#32. Dedicate time to discovering yourself and find out the purpose of your creation
Sunday Adelaja
#33. Self-discovery is a process of dissolution and creation. Dissolution means envelopment in eternity. Creation is bringing into focus new awareness
Frederick Lenz
#34. The awkwardness of getting reward in a well-off society is that the creation of appetite often requires undoing the work of satisfying appetite.
George Ainslie
#35. Individuality is but another act of segregation. We need instead learn the process of Individuation. One is to know thyself merely to be a single brick within the wall of mass creation and group consciousness.
Tyler J. Hebert
#36. And so artistic creation is the metamorphosis of the external physical aspects of a thing into a self-sustaining spiritual reality .
Hans Hofmann
#38. Life is a miracle, and we need to not fear trying to achieve our potential and reveal the remarkable creation we and all living things are and that our Creator has built into us the ability to induce self-healing.
Bernie Siegel
#39. Pleasure is a manifestation of self-re-creation.
Pleasure is worship because it replenishes the soul.
Zsuzsanna Budapest
#40. Dedicate each day to living relaxed and worry-free. Consciously open your heart to the flow of Creation and Creation's energy. By doing so you have the power to create each day, one day at a time.
Janet Gallagher Nestor
#41. Your "Self" was created in the image and likeness of your creator. How can you believe that your "self" can be improved? Self improvement is contradictory to your creation.
Sumner Davenport
#42. Accept yourself in the way you were created by God, do not anyone else
Sunday Adelaja
#43. You are a self and an other.
Your 'others' are in part your own creation.
This in turn affects and shapes your experiences of self.
Your levels of self-awareness and self-acceptance largely shape how you perceive others. p.231
Stephanie Dowrick
#44. Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#45. The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.
Ramana Maharshi
#46. Art is an affirmation of life, a rebuttal of death. And here we blunder into paradox again, for during the creation of any form of art, art which affirms the value and the holiness of life, the artist must die. To serve a work of art, great or small, is to die, to die to self.
Madeleine L'Engle
#47. You have a one of a kind gift to offer this world, and you are unique in the entire history of creation.
Wayne Dyer
#48. No repentance, obedience, self-denial, prayers, tears, reformation or ordinances, without the new creation, avail any thing to the salvation of thy soul.
John Flavel
#50. The journey was a surreal dream. This world was about knowing the person you'd always wanted to be and setting your foot down to it, remembering the person you'd thought you were as a child and rejoicing in its living, breathing actuality.
Christopher Hawke
#51. The ego is the product of imagination. It is how a human being sees himself or herself. It makes humans demand special status in nature and culture. Nature does not care for this self-image of human beings. Culture, which is a man-made creation, attempts to accommodate it.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#52. The child will leave the nest. The best paint job will crack. The best play will become boring. The best work will grow tedious. The best art will lose meaning. The greatest creation will decay. Behind all this, lies my true self.
Vironika Tugaleva
#53. He is the Creator and the sustainer of all things. He is the unchanging, self-existent God, and that means that He depends on nobody. He is neither helped by our faith nor hindered by our unbelief.
Colin S. Smith
#54. Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our thinking faculties when we have admitted that because matter cannot be eternal and self-existent it must have been created.
James Clerk Maxwell
#55. Everyone's true self is a unique creation of God's, and the way to sanctity is to become the unique self that God wishes us to be.
James Martin
#56. What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration.
Elizabeth Bishop
#57. Only your soul knows that fear is nothing more than a creation of your fantasy.
C. Massios
#58. Remember your true self. You are more than just flesh and bones; you are unlimited energy and power. Knowing this, you will understand why happiness and prosperity are your birth right.
Stephen Richards
#59. There is one difference between mind power and prayer, however, in that subscription to a specific religion, if at all, is not required.
Stephen Richards
#60. The writing of novels is one of the few ways I have found to approach the altar of God and Creation itself. You try to worship God by performing the singularly courageous and impossible favor of knowing yourself.
Pat Conroy
#61. Using your imagination means that you are using your most powerful tool of creation, manifestation and modification
Dorothy Holder
#62. If you don't give yourself permission to create a new world, chances are nobody else will.
James Altucher
#63. Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating obedience to law or cultivating self-virtue, it is rather about finding within us an ever-increasing sense of the worth of creation. It is about how we can develop and deepen our intuitive sense of beauty and creativity.
Andrew Linzey
#64. Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws.
Theodore Roosevelt
#65. Until we begin to discover and create value, purposefully and systemically, we are not humans but only biomass
Sunday Adelaja
#66. I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as a mode of truth-telling, self-expression and homage to the twin miracles of creation and consciousness.
John Updike
#67. When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.
Michael Bridges
#69. (2) In regard to the making of the universe and the creation of all things there have been various opinions, and each person has propounded the theory that suited his own taste. For instance, some say that all things are self-originated and,
Athanasius Of Alexandria
#70. Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotismat solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation.
August Wilhelm Von Schlegel
#71. Creatives Creed: Destruction is creation. Creation is destruction.
Richie Norton
#72. She did not arrive at Annandale without taking the chisel to herself more than once, without rubbing up against a few boys to smooth an edge or two.
Thomm Quackenbush
#73. It's been long since thinking humanity has learnt that love is a majestic creation of the brain, yet that knowledge hasn't made love be deemed any less glorious. Then why should it threaten the religious believer to learn that divinity as well is a natural creation of the brain?
Abhijit Naskar
#74. For better or worse, man is the tool-using animal, and as such he has become the lord of creation. When he is lord also of himself, he will deserve his self-chosen title homo sapiens.
William Ralph Inge
#75. Composing gives me great pleasure ... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours of self-forgetfulness, when one lives in a world of sound.
Clara Schumann
#77. If we believe in ... an everlasting self, it's tantamount to claiming that we have existed before all else came into being. We may as well fancy ourselves as being the cause of all creation.
Steve Hagen
#78. You are not here to prove worthiness. You are here to extend the creation, creator, creating that you are.
Esther Hicks
#79. We can actually live out the trials and temptations of the day before they come. We can in prayer deal with all our unrighteous aspirations, selfishness, perverse inclinations, impatience, anger, procrastination. This is a form of spiritual creation.
Stephen Covey
#80. Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.
Alexander Pope
#81. The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing; and therefore he is like a part in relation to the whole.
Aristotle.
#82. The lessons in measurement of cloacal forces. Time as a flow of sewage. The excrement of space, scatology of creation. The voiding of the self. The whole filthy integration of things and the nocturnal product . . . drowning in the pools of night.
Thomas Ligotti
#83. If you can see yourself as an artist, and you can see that your life is your own creation, then why not create the most beautiful story for yourself?
Miguel Ruiz
#84. Writing is not just a process of creation. It is also a process of self-discovery
Cristina Istrati
#85. The ninth gift is Reverence. May you appreciate the wonder that you are and the miracle of all creation.
Charlene Costanzo
#86. The boundaries of your life is merely creation of the self.
Robin S. Sharma
#87. You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.
Stephen Richards
#88. The notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit, of laborious creation and free self-determination.
Franz Kafka
#89. I had rather be a meteor, single, alone.'
Plus Paris itself was noisome. Even with its glittering bridges and orangeries, even if the birthplace of ballet.
'I had rather been a meteor, than a star in a crowd.
Danielle Dutton
#90. If you're struggling to "think outside the box" remember the box is self-imposed. Who says it has to be a box? Why not a bowl of petunias?
Ryan Lilly
#91. Jupiter: I am not your king, impudent larva? Who then has created you?
Orestes: You. But you should not have created me free.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#92. Even though God could create all kinds of things, he could hardly create himself before he had a "self" to create with. So there was only one possibility left: God had always existed. But she had already rejected that possibility! Everything that existed had to have a beginning.
Jostein Gaarder
#93. Stop waiting for creative inspiration. Start creating and inspire yourself along the way.
Ryan Lilly
#94. Once you know what you want, even if you can't see it, even if you do not know how you will get it, you have to trust that it is there.
Stephen Richards
#95. I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowled
Bruce Lee
#96. YOU are important. You are special. You are loved. GOD has a plan for your life! Find out what it is and you'll experience a depth of fulfillment you never thought possible.
J.E.B. Spredemann
#97. We are unhappy because we no longer have our self esteem. We are unhappy, because we no longer believe we are a special miracle, a special creation of God. We have lost faith in ourselves.
Og Mandino
#98. When you change yourself, you inspire others, and this inspiration changes the world.
Stephen Richards
#100. Life is essentially an endless series of problems. The solution to one problem is merely the creation of another.
Mark Manson
