Self Quotes
Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.
Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another.
Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.
Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands.
Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.
Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer one wayor another.
Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, "I am not the kind of person I want to be." It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.
Morality, after all, has nothing to do with selflessness. On the contrary, self-interest is precisely the basis of the categorical imperative.
The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.
Who claims that the heathen's view of the world is incorrect? Life gives you nothing! It is ruled by false gods! Nothing remains true to you but your own self; provided you remain true to it.
There is one privilege we'll never lose; currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.
Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.
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.
I'm pretty much a self-taught player. My swing hasn't changed a whole lot, I don't think. But I watch a lot of people.
You are complete. Completion has taken place in you eons ago. Accept yourself. Enjoy yourself. This time will never be again, so fulfill the moment with your own self-joy.
If you hate yourself and your desires, well, you know, God is your desires and God is your self. As long as you hate God, you'll never realize God.
It's amazing to me how many people who profess to be spiritual seekers are self-seekers, and how few of them ever consider God.
Of the four major pathways to self-realization, jnana yoga, from the point of view of the beginner, is the most difficult.
We examine everything in existence and we come to see that everything is transitory and temporal, that which is left over is God, is eternity, is the Self.
When we talk about self-realization, we're talking from the point of view of limitation of the mind. Real knowledge is to see that you are that - you are eternity.
To talk about realizing the Self is discontinuous because there is nothing to realize but the Self. There is nothing but realization.
This is not the case. There is nothing that is not the Self. The Self does not have to be realized.
There has never been anything but the Self. There is no world, there is no time, there is no place, there is no condition. There is nothing and there can be nothing else.
What is self? Self is the mind viewing itself. That's all. The mind stops viewing itself and turns towards infinity. There is no self, there's only infinity.
All questions about the Self, fall away in the white light of eternity, in nirvana, because then we have awakened from the dream.
In that undifferentiated reality of the Self there is eternal bliss. All the phantoms of existence fade away.
How do we find a way out? By realizing that there's no place to go, that there's no way out, that there's no way in. All that exists is the Self.
The Self is infinite. The Self is eternal. You are that Self. Beyond words, thoughts, ideas, forms and belief systems. There is nothing but the Self.
If silence only conveys the Self, if all words and thoughts are illusions, why do we discuss it?
The secret of love is acceptance, acceptance of our finite self, of our life, our birth ... our death.
One thing I have seen, regardless of the method of aprehenesion of the dimensional plane one is in, is self-giving and how effective it is.
You have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering.
Whenever we do something for someone else, we affirm that we are not simply in it for ourselves, that our self is someone else, is everyone else.
Selfless giving changes our concept of our identity. When we give to others our unselfishness removes the spot of "self" that stained our awareness.
In real self-giving we are inspired. Whether they acknowledge us or not is not important.
There are persons who elected to give their existence to God. They are happy, happy in their self-giving.
Most people we observe who practice self-discovery just get caught up in a new description, a new "ism", a new religion, a new god. But nothing changes.
There is no self, yet we all exist. All phenomena are "empty," yet they have Buddha nature.
The way you become happy is by realizing that there is no self. No self at all, not a silly millimeter of self. You don't exist. When you know this, you will be happy.