Self Quotes

Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.

What is so priceless about being the selves we were created to grow into is that it's impossible to do it wrong.

Society imposes an identity on you because of the way you look. Your struggle as a self has to do with an identity being imposed on you that you know is not your identity.

When I look for self-help books for myself, I used to be scared that I was going to pick up a book that would depress me even more.

Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one's balance. I think that it's very damaging.

Acting, it's the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.

Second, the only proven technique for treatment for chemically dependent people involves use of a spiritual program of self-change.

Thus Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Douglas and Mr. Joyce partly spoil their books for women readers by their display of self-conscious virility; and Mr. Hemingway, but much less violently, follows suit.

self-possession is the ability to face without fear life in all its contradictions.

for me, the beauty of feminism is that it is a social and political movement that has redefined the power and obligation of the self: self-possession and self-regulation as a tool for social reform.

If you want to conquer lust for wealth, love selflessness and sparing way of life.

Of course one always has to follow international law. This was also the case in Crimea. According to the Charter of the United Nations, every people has the right to self-determination.

Blessed be all metrical rules that forbid automatic responses, force us to have second thoughts, free us from the fetters of Self.

A god who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his existence.

A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.

Do we know what we look like? Not really.

No society could advance if everyone was smaller than his place.

Just as my fingers on these keys make music, so the self-same sounds on my spirit make a music too.

The sea Severs not only lands but also selves.

Of what is real I say, Is it the old, the roseate parent or The bride come jingling, kissed and cupped, or else The spirit and all ensigns of the self?

I sing the body that is electric! I celebrate the Self yet to be unveiled!

I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is.

Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf, And can be bought with nothing but with self.

Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.

Boys with a failure to launch are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.

Recognize and respect mutual self-interests, then build creative collaborations to serve them.

Do we not realize that the basic condition for a spiritual walk is to fear our self and its wisdom and to rely absolutely upon the Spirit?

Imagine the word CANCEL being a huge rubber stamp in your mind. Stamp CANCEL on any self-defeating image you place in your head, and begin to think in a self-enhancing way.

here's a payoff for everyone. The reason we hang on to self-defeating behaviors is because it's easier not to take responsibility.

There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace.

You can set your self as much as be sick, or you'll be able to select to remain properly.

God is the highest place within each and every one of us. It's our divine self.

In God's eyes, no one on this planet is any better than you.

All the great teachers have left a similar message: Go within, discover your invisible higher self and know God as the love that is within you.

With every breath, the possibility of a new aspect of self arises.

Can it then be that what we call the 'self' is fluid and elastic? It evolves, strikes a different balance with every new breath.

The dream world, the true freedom of the imagination, does not open to self-conscious manipulation.

The devil did not make me do it. I managed it all by myself.

If you have to learn it from a self-help book, you may be beyond help.

Once self-killing is an acceptable answer, how do you logically limit it to the dying? What about the disabled, who may live longer and suffer more?

In them was not the savage blankness of the reptile species. Instead there was something far worse - burning, unquenchable rage mixed with the self-mocking irony of great intelligence.

Because we have this whole other human being we have to think about other than ourselves. We had the luxury before of being totally self-centered.

The self persists like a dying star, In sleep, afraid.

The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.

I long for truth, and yet I cannot stay from that My better self disowns, For a man's attention Brings such satisfaction To the craving in my bones.

In times of trouble you can count on your self. In times of disaster you can count on your friends. In times of sorrow you can count on your Father.

If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.

He that attends to his interior self, That has a heart, and keeps it; has a mind That hungers, and supplies it; and who seeks A social, not a dissipated life, Has business.

The difficulty is to know conscience from self-interest.

It is better to rely on yourself than on your friends.