Self Quotes
I remember thinking that the rest of my life would be solo. I wasn’t weepy when I thought that - it was just a realization that I had gone this long being self-sufficient.
There is no real separation between self or no-self. Anything you do for yourself you do for the society at the same time. And anything you do for society you do for yourself also.
It is the ability to focus our attention on self-motivating thoughts, rather than being mesmerised by negatives, which rests at the very heart of a healthy approach to life.
There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered and ego-driven, which is the death of a memoir.
Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.
The stories that I want to tell are completely, well somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems.
Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.
The Syrian people do not recognize themselves in the elite politics of the Muslim Brotherhood or the left, each of which is looking for an external power rather than the people's own self-activity.
To know the reality one has to enter into the realm of Meta-science, beyond mind, which is only possible when we enter into the collective super-consciousness through self-realisation.
We achieve self knowledge through the Kundalini. Now the journey starts towards God knowledge. Without self knowledge one cannot know about God as actualised knowledge.
It seems self-evident that we should want people to be free, to be able to play an active part in making decisions about matters of concern to them, to the largest possible extent.
The persona in my stories may be truer to my "real" self than any alleged objective, factual "I" that I could replicate for the purposes of storytelling.
Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
There's such a self-conscious balance that goes into television. Also, these are not people that think things through.
Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.
Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
The dominant type of humor in the '60s was essentially defensive and self-deprecating, using humor as a shield.
There are a lot of parts of who I am that no one in the public has ever known, but the older I've gotten, the more I've appreciated my own strange little self and come to terms with that.
The real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool.
Of course, people say maybe there are some self-published books out there that shouldn't be out there. Well, it's the same with conventional publishing.
I knew people were independently publishing, and I buy books on Amazon. I began seriously considering it when Amanda Hocking was in the news about her self-publishing success.
I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am so self-conscious. Who did I think I was?
There are rules in advertising, and those rules are self-imposed by the client companies because they don't want their products to be seen as dishonest.
Through conscious beings the universe has generated self-awareness. This can be no trivial detail, no minor byproduct of mindless, purposeless forces. We are truly meant to be here.
Maybe it's because I have too much pride or self-respect, but I thought, 'Why does a guy who has thinning hair and who is overweight have to be a loser or a joke?'
I always thought Christians were the weak people. When you can't make it in life then you have to ask God. I really prided myself on being a self-made man.
Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.
It isn't difficult to leave King Lear or Macbeth, but once you have gone back to yourself, you want it to be the same self you have always been.
Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.
The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace.
Imagination has to do with one's awareness of the reality of other people as well as of one's own reality. Imagination is a bridge between the provincialism of the self and the great world.
Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history.
I didn't learn for years that you generally find your Self after you quit looking for it.
It becomes increasingly clear that we won’t be free of self-destructive patterns unless we develop a compassionate understanding of what they are.
There's something delicious about finding fault with something. And that can be including finding fault with one's self, you know?
I, my own damn self, am not a Tea Party supporter. I disagree with them on social liberties, our overseas wars, Obama's birthplace, Sarah Palin, and the conspicuous absence of tea at their rallies.