Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Nothing is real if you don't believe in who you are!

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

What you believe yourself to be, you are.

What we sincerely believe regarding ourselves is true for us.

You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you do! You are what you think you are.

I have no issues with my identity.

I believe this is Heaven to no one else but me.

Every man is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing.

Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.

Who I am inside determines how I feel about my body instead of the other way around

Beware of solipsism Funny word. Sounds like it means "love of melons" or something. I looked it up. It means believing that "the self is the only reality." Am I solipsist?

Every single human being is trying his best. We're all doing the best we can. But when we believe what we think, we have to live out those thoughts. When there's chaos in our heads, there's chaos in our lives. When there's hurt in our thinking, there's hurt in our lives. Love thy neighbor as thyself? I always have. When I hated me, I hated you. That's how it works. If I hate someone, I'm mistaking them for me, and solutions remain hidden.

The only way to change the world is to change the main character of our story - the one we believe that we are. If we change the main character, if we respect ourselves, then just like magic, all the secondary characters will change. We can only give what we have, and if we don't respect ourselves, how can we respect others?

A problem becomes a problem only if you believe it to be so. And often others see you as you see yourself.

And since the possession of qualities presupposes that one takes a certain pleasure in their reality, all this gives us a glimpse of how it may all of a sudden happen to someone who cannot summon up any sense of reality — even in relation to himself — that one day he appears to himself as a man without qualities.

The most important opinion you'll ever have is the one you hold of yourself.

Don't believe what anyone tells you about yourself.

Recognize that whether you are worthy or not is all a made-up 'story'...Nothing has meaning except for the meaning we give it...There's no one who comes around and stamps you 'worthy' or 'unworthy'. You do that. You make it up. You decide it...If you say you're worthy, you are. If you say you're not worthy, you're not. Either way you will live into your story.

Giving yourself threads doesn't mean you don't believe in yourself in my opinion.

All that matters is how you see yourself.

It is a fact that you project what you are.

A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.

I am what I feel and think and do.

No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.

You will become on the outside, what you believe on the inside.