Self Quotes

Authentic spirituality... does not render the self content, it renders it undone.

Love is a time-honored way to transcend the separate-self sense and leap into the sublime; Treya and I held hands, closed our eyes, and jumped.

Was it someone else? Was it not you yourself?

Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life.

Everyone has a private self and a public self.

Your love should be so far reaching, earnest, biblical, Christ-centered, pure, and self-sacrificing that the world may hate you for it.

Just about the worst thing a leader can nurture in his heart is self-pity. And just about the worst thing a leader can do in front of his people is murmur and complain.

The simple act of helping someone—with no desire (or possibility) of repayment is good for us and our self-image, and it may positively change the life or outlook of the receiver for the day!

Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented

The boys are so well-rounded, they're so self-disciplined, there is so much camaraderie

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it.

Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas have recognized Israel's right to exist. The Israeli government has never recognized our right to a sovereign state and self-determination.

For what is prayer but the expansion of your self into the living ether?

I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.

It gives the guys confidence and self-belief. Two or three years ago I think we would have lost it. The confidence that we have, we can actually nail it.

Self-publishing is still my basic recommendation to anyone wanting to do comics. Do it. Do it until you get good. Do it after you get good. It's good for your spirit as a creator.

Lend.” “Lend?” Raquel asked. “Yes, as in, lend me your self.” He shimmered into Raquel again. “Why not Borrow?” I asked. “Better yet, Steal?

Hope you're pleased with the crumbs she throws you.

I do not have a genetically "gifted" body. I have to work hard everyday and I am always working on maintaining a positive self image.

It is hard for women not to be overly self critical, I am no exception!

I was really, really wild in my early twenties and a bit self-destructive.

I am a little klutzy and self-deprecating. I fit in with the rest of the losers.

You don't encounter anyone who is not hero or villain of their own story. If it's man vs. self, you have to explore the ways each character is villainous and heroic.

So many people among non-scientists see science as an unassailable monolith of truth, and it's not. It's an ongoing self-correcting process.

Being angry is like picking up a knife with no handle: it is self-harming.

I always buy something to make myself motivated. It's good to feel that you can buy something and motivate yourself. That's what I do, just buy stuff. I like to buy something new and then record.

I can’t help thinking about memoir as a down-and-up process: Dive down for color; come up for context. Sink back down for action; climb back up for self-awareness and gratitude.

Honestly, self-care is not fluffy - it's something we should take seriously.

It seems a little self-involved to be like, 'Oh, he's hitting on me.' Maybe he's just trying to start up an innocent conversation.

I don't say I'm not magnetic to try and sound self-deprecating. I'm just not. Though I actually love people. I would like to meet more people. I know no one.

Nina knew the power of black and white images. Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away.

I've got at least one tiny corner of the universe I can make just the way I want it.

What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!

The only aberration is denial of self.

I love Washington, but it is a self-important town.

Whatever doubts or vexations one has in Japan, it is only necessary to ask one's self: "Well, who are the best people to live with?

A bruxis. That was the one wish more powerful than a gavriel, and its trade value was singular: The only way to purchase one was with one’s own teeth. All of them, self-extracted.

Realize thy Simple Self, Embrace thy Original Nature.

The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance.

The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.

My biggest influence is someone I really don't know at all: Tina Fey. Smart, funny, beautiful, self-deprecating, also a mom and a wife.

The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

"Influence" is itself influenced, coming from an Italian word for the outbreak of a disease (influenza, outbreak). Influence is that which flows across - permeates - the boundaries of the self.

The humor for me is how far above your head the signature is - it's dislocated from the sign of the artist in such a distinct way that it could almost be a self-portrait of a sort.

Every woman must live by some sense of victory over disappointments, and Olympias was not the sort of woman to find compensation in her own powers of self-control and endurance.

A person likes to think of himself in a certain way, and when something happens that makes that no longer possible, you mourn the old self. The person you thought you were.

Knock your bad self out.

I wanted to wipe the grin off his face with a fist. I resisted the urge. Who says I have no self-control?

You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I'm astonished at how I lived my life - it was totally self-involved.