Self Quotes

When you really love, that makes you feel unsure in your self, even though it is love that reaches your heart.

What you really are isn’t loyal to your self. It won’t favor your self. It will turn your self into what you really are.

You cannot dwell in your being while your self inhabits your heart.

Looking and seeing do not originate in your self. You are able to look in your self because looking and seeing are before your self.

The place of connection or separation in relationship to your own being, the place in your self where this occurs, is in your heart.

Everyone starts out with a little self, and it costs everything to move past that little self. It costs the life of the little self to be the life within that's deeper than that little self.

You simply cannot trust or refer to your experience of your self to tell you what you are, to tell you the truth within.

As much as everything can seem to be about patterns in your self and others, within the drama of all that, it's really all about knowing.

When you are unconditionally open and soft in your heart while your self empties and while your self fills, you live fulfilling the law of containment.

For your self to become pure, give everything to what is already pure in you.

Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous isolation.

Choice is the declaration by self that a certain ideal of self shall be realized.

A man is never more his single separate self than when he sets out on a journey.

Great performers in all fields seem immune to what outsiders think about them. Their sense of themselves never depends on the feedback-positive or negative-they get from the environment.

The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.

How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old?

I am concussed," I announced, entirely sure of my self-diagnosis.

It's almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person I was or the whatever I am now.

Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction?

Nothing is eternal but that which is done for God and others. That which is done for self dies.

If a man achieves worldly success and does not blend into his life a program of self-improvement to bring about a sensible balance, he no doubt will end up as a failure.

The fact is I'm very self-similar.

I have nothing to speak of but my self-and what can I say but what I feel.

So rainbow-sided, touch'd with miseries, She seem'd, at once, some penanced lady elf, Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self.

Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one!

Identity is memory; when memory disappears, the self dissolves and love with it.

To think profoundly, to seek and speak truth, to love justice and denounce wrong is to draw upon one's self the ill will of many.

When guests enter the room their entertainers rise to receive them; and in all meetings men should ascend into their higher selves, imparting to one another only the best they know and love.

Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.

I think a shotgun or a handgun that has a six-round clip is a very good, perfectly adequate weapon for self-defense, in the home. You simply can't create that kind of mayhem, if you have to reload.

All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.

Nothing puts the dignity in personal dignity (or the freedom in personal freedom) like the self in self-rule.

Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty.

Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.

We should exhibit no self doubt to our friends, ... Credibility is a strategic asset.

Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming.

This self-defeating behavior, so the argument goes, must be the result of warped domestic politics.

Babies learn through a series of increasingly self-corrected ideas. They use very sophisticated hypothesis testing strategies to find out about their world.

The pious and just honoring of ourselves may be thought the fountainhead from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth.

And the earth self-balanced on her centre hung.

Without the body, the wisdom of the larger self cannot be known.

Jordan Ruddes does [have a home studio], but it's all self-contained. I'll be the only guy with a fully built recording studio. So they'll have to come to me.

The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community... that in the operation of human institutions upon social action, self-love and social may be made the same.

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

The Mexican War was a training ground for generals, so that when the sad self-murders settled on us, the leaders knew the techniques for making it properly horrible.

Seeming contentment is real discontent, combined with indolence or self-indulgence, which, while taking no legitimate means of raising itself, delights in bringing others down to its own level.

Among the facts of the universe to be accounted for, it may be said, is Mind; and it is self evident that nothing can have produced Mind but Mind.

This is partly a function of approval ratings. People pay attention [to polls] and start saying, 'Lets take a more independent tack.' It is frankly self-interest, self-preservation.

Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality.

A writer's self-consciousness, for which he is much scorned, is really a mode of interestedness, that inevitably turns outward.