Self Quotes

Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.

You know, if a drug has anything going for it at all, it should be self-limiting. It should tell you when you've had enough. Acid and peyote were that way for me.

One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession.

With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.

A friend's only gift is himself.

To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.

What does remembering ourselves mean? It essentially means coming back to life- re-membering.

When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness.

No self-respecting small businessman with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age.

Your enemy is still yourself. You don't have enemies. They may be self-styled. I have plenty of self-styled enemies. I don't wish them harm.

We do as we feel not as we think

I think the problem with growing up and idealizing self-destructive artists is that you only see the beauty they created rather than all the pain that went along with it.

Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery

What good is any feeling we may have about ourselves, if it only lasts as long as others agree to it?

People think, "She's just a rich kid." Until I was 18, I was. Then I was broke. I've never taken a dime off my parents. I'm completely self - made.

By accepting life before it happens, and letting go of your inner resistance to all things you cannot change, you unlock true emotional freedom from all of your self-imposed emotional pain.

The paper standard is self-destructive.

If you give your Self a chance, your Self will give you all the chances.

Once you have given up your limited self willingly to the Unlimited, you will rejoice so much in that consciousness that you will not care to be small again.

Trust the comfy clothes you reach for day after day, your plain, regular, essential self.

I always return to Paris, taking my selves along - past self, customary self, the self I never had.

Through my handicaps, I have found my self, my work, my God.

Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience.

Happiness is being at peace with yourself while the self is united with a larger order of things.

In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.

When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that is no longer Self - the great secret!

Banks have a strong self-preservation instinct and are quick to adapt to new regulations.

[Heresy is] the dislocation of a complete and self-supporting scheme by the introduction of a novel denial of some essential part therein.

I have a number of proposals how to tackle this issue of self radicalization. I would set up a team exclusively dedicated to detecting and preventing lone wolf attacks.

Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.

The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.

Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.

It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.

I think that sometimes the difference between winning and losing, success and failure, is this gray line between will, passion and self-belief that says, 'I'm going to do this'.

The most direct and practical method of self-development is to achieve yourself by your own effort.

Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place.

We know so little about each other. We lie mostly submerged, like ice floes, with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white.

I believe that self-discovery is an ongoing thing. I might not ever fully know who I am, but I also believe that I could be whoever I want, whenever I want.

Life was not given for indolent contemplation and study of self, nor for brooding over emotions of piety: Actions and actions only determine the worth.

Nothing is more beautifully and acceptably self-assertive than good singing.

The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It's the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to self-respect--but, nearly invariably, the stupidest.

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he's something innately superior, something eternal--and lives, is obligated to live, in the moment and for the moment.

Religion is something people do together to face urgent problems and to resolve them by appealing to truths that seem self-evident to them.

Fling away your soul once for all, your own small self; if you will find it again. Count not even on immortality.

I think of how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't.

A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.

I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

Of all the hurdles you will need to face in this life time the hardest will be your self imposed limitations

...You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump.