Self Quotes
As publishing has become less expensive, the urge to write my own self has become the opportunity to publish my own self. Everyone now can afford to preach in the desert.
When he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing had changed. His leg still hurt, it was still dark, he was still alone and the self-pity had accomplished nothing.
The man who wears the yellow-dyed robe but is not free from stains himself, without self-restraint and integrity, is unworthy of the robe.
You can then further enhance the process of writing by forming the clear intention that your Higher Self will influence your writing.
We should self-examine and talk about things like our own white privilege and these phony senses of being an artist.
Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion.
The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.
Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.
Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.
What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.
I believe in the importance of seeking self-knowledge. The more I know myself, the more I feel empowered.
I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially from the immigrant perspective.
The true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one's failure or pettiness or wrongness exists the living drama of the self.
I'm actually quite self-sufficient, so it might look as if there isn't room for anyone in my life. That isn't entirely the case.
Start taking your SELF to the next level so you can take your SUCCESS to the next level. It only happens in that order.
power can be thought of as the never-ending, self-feeding motor of all political action that corresponds to the legendary unending accumulation of money that begets money.
How often are the perpetrators of hate-crimes discovered to be self-loathing? Valued individuals do not strike out against strangers.
Rebuffed, but always persevering; self-reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals.
The spiritual life is a reaching out to our innermost self, to our fellow human and to our God.
The act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the individual author but also the self, as it were, of the race.
Words uttered under coercion are proof of loyalty to nothing but self-interest. Love of country must spring from willing hearts and free minds.
It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission.
...who proved that you don't have to do what your parents want, or what your boyfriend wants, for you to be happy. You just have to be yourself, for there is no love greater than self love
Golf inflicts more pain than any other sport. If you're the sort of person whose self-worth is tied up in how you play, golf will cut you to the core of who you are.
Being in the library is so addictive for me that I really have to exercise self-control so I can get some writing done at home.
'Juno' really changed things for me and I get a lot of screenplays come in now, but I like to self-generate and I like to kind of pursue my own ideas. And I think the more personal the better.
One faithful Friend is enough for a man's self, 'tis much to meet with such an one, yet we can't have too many for the sake of others.
All the evil in the world is the fault of the self-styled pure in heart, a result of their eagerness to unearth secrets and expose them to the light of the sun.
Saddest of all are the women who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue. They made the sacrifice, often willingly, and they are still waiting for the blessing.
I looked at my palms trying to see the other life, the parallel life. The point at which my selves broke away and one married a fat man and the other stayed here.
The window was still open.” Mr Lisbon said. “I don’t think we’d ever remembered to shut it. It was all clear to me. I knew I had to close it or else she’d go on jumping out of it forever
Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.
No true Dharma Master behaves with rage, hate, ranting, self- importance. These are signs of mental instability, a character flaw. Never follow such a one as that.
Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.
Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge is the whole universe; it embraces all the struggles of humanity.
Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.
Finding is reserved for the searchers, we don't find what we need, we find what we search for
The one that rambles for a million miles, yes, I walk down this road searching for your love.