Self Quotes
The single most outwardly identifiable trait demonstrated by a winning human being is that of positive self-expectation- which is pure and simple optimism.
My advice to my younger self would have been, "Chill. Concentrate on the poems. Everything else will work itself out."
I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus, they suck the life right out of a party.
What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.
You shouldn't wallow in self-pity. But it's OK to put your feet in it and swish them around a little.
In recent years we have seen a great deal of bravery and self-sacrifice, but civil courage hardly anywhere, even among ourselves.
The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.
What is the way of the Buddha? It is to study the self. What is the study of the self? It is to forget oneself. To forget oneself is to enlightened by everything in the world.
If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the 'I' and the 'self' that 'I' cannot live with. Maybe, I thought, only one of them is real.
For when down on the knees The man (or god) stretches the arms In giving, It is no accident the hands Are curled like bowls or cups, For he offers self, yet Begs it back again.
All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches of other people.
The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of them, at least, would be found night and day hovering over his pockets.
Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.
Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart.
Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.
To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy, or to pursue any excessive desire, diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self.
There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.
Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express.
Every person with whom you interact is a part of the person you are becoming. Not a single interaction with a single person is left out of the process of your becoming.
In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.
What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest.
The Self has turned out to mean so many things, to mean them so ambiguously, and to be so wavering in its application, that we do not feel encouraged.
All our parents have levels of deviousness. We're driven to write about this discrepancy between the bright shining selves they invented and the monsters lurking underneath.
You aim for what you want and if you don't get it, you don't get it, but if you don't aim, you don't get anything.
When we love God because we feel we should love Him, instead of genuinely loving out of our true selves, we have forgotten who God really is.
Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve and commend at another.
Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but his courage and self-respect made him quite a dignified character.
This solidity is not true. The apparent solidity is the delusion of the senses and of the self. Everything is made up of infinite, intelligent light.
The message of love is self-acceptance in the smaller sense and self-acceptance in the large sense - the Self as eternity.
It is through many lifetimes of shifting the aggregate of the self that one finally reaches a point of maximum velocity whereby one can snap off the circle completely and move into freedom.
The miracle of enlightenment is that you take the self and let it dissolve in the white light of eternity.
Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.
As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.
Next to the intellectual stimulation of chess, the educational value is of great importance. Chess teaches logic, imagination, self-discipline, and determination.
The highest goal of spirituality is Self-realization, but what does that mean? It means to feel your Self as a living reality in this moment, and there is always only this moment. (10)
Love includes vulnerability, surrender, self-valuing, steadiness, and a willingness to face - rather than run from - the worst of ourselves.
What we get in punk these days are layers of 'anti-', and so many of them are so self-serving. It's not about larger freedom.