Self Quotes
Your biggest problem is you think you shouldn’t have them. ‘Cause problems are what make us grow. Problems are what sculpt our soul. Problems are what make us become more.
Every day, work harder on yourself than anything else. ‘Cause if you become more intelligent, more valuable, more skilled, you can add more value to other people.
One best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then physics, and, lastly, metaphysics.
Adversity relieves people of vanity and egotism. It discourages selfishness by proving that no one can succeed without the cooperation of others.
When the pain of being the same becomes greater than the pain of being different, you change.
The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well-meaning.
Sometimes things work just because you think they work. It's as good a definition of faith as any.
Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief on already has.
When I use a word, ' Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.
There are always those to whom all self-revelation is contemptible, unless it ends with a noble thanks to the gods for the Unconquerable Soul.
I found myself praying: "May I love and accept myself just as I am.
I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.
But, you see, it's not what you do that matters really. It's only you.""Me what?""Just you here. Or you in the city. Or you somewhere in the world. I don't know. Just that.
See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds.
I tell you I can't be bothered with things like that. I've got a soul above buttons.
As long as a self is driven by an id to a Thou, it is not a matter of love, either. In love the self is not driven by the id, but rather the self chooses the Thou.
To realise one's nature perfectly—that is what each of us is here for.
Once you can communicate with yourself, you'll be able to communicate outwardly with more clarity. The way in is the way out.
The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light will not let me be.
The belief that personality is mysterious and irreducible has no scientific warrant, and is accepted chiefly because it is flattering to our human self esteem.
A man’s spirit is his self. That entity which is his consciousness. To think, to feel, to judge, to act are functions of the ego.
If, to him, love was a celebration of one’s self and of existence—then, to the self-haters and life-haters, the pursuit of destruction was the only form and equivalent of love.
..it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. It is the unsacrificed self that we must respect in man above all.
An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth
Peace": the fruit of justice done especially to the Self.
Truth is a relationship. As such, each one of us receives the truth and expresses it from within, that is to say, according to one's own circumstances, culture, and situation in life.
There are often beams in our eye that we know not of. Let us therefore ask that our eye may become single, for then we ourselves shall become wholly single.
Yet there’s no one to beat you | No one t’ defeat you | ’Cept the thoughts of yourself feeling bad
When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force.
Be self-indulgent, and those who are also self-indulgent will like you. Tear your neighbor to pieces, and the other neighbors will laugh. But if you beat your soul, all souls will cry out.
He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he knows.
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
I'd always vaguely expected to outgrown my limitations.
In Buddhism we would say that you are lazy... Despising yourself, thinking you are no good, saying 'I can't do this.' This is the mind of weakness. You must work to overcome it .