Self Quotes

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

Meditation brings Nirvana, and Nirvana brings Buddhahood.

Relationship is understanding. It is a process of self-revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself -- to be is to be related.

Blessed are you, who mediate and believe in God’s Holy Scriptures.

My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves" -Socrates

I didn’t think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be.

Or may-be one who is puzzled at me.As if I were not puzzled at myself!

You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility.

One of the highest marks of citizenship is fighting for the common defense.

Her anger said, as anger is apt to say, that God was with her— that all heaven, though it were crowded with spirits watching them, must be on her side.

Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat.(Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands.)

Anyone can get angry, but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for everyone, nor is it easy.

It's okay if there isn't a God anymore, but I still want to respect something. I don't want to be the center of my own universe,

There is no sin unless through a man's own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our own

It would be a sin to help you destroy yourself.

PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration.

I can last two months on a good compliment.

Truthis like a vast tree, which yields more and more fruit, the more you nurture it

Man's poverty is abysmal, his wants are endless till he becomes truly conscious of his soul. Till then, the world to him is in a state of flux - a phantasm that is and is not.

When a man sleeps he is shut up within the narrow activities of his physical life. He lives, but he knows not the varied relations of his life to his surroundings, - therefore he knows not himself.

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act, and in that action are the seeds of new knowledge.

When you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, the day will come when you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them.

The person who fights monsters should make sure that in the process, he does not become a monster himself. Because when you stare down at an abyss, the abyss stares back at you.

People seem to remember the sacrifices they made more than what the sacrifices were for.

The victors always think they are righteous. But then, they always seem to start a mighty unrighteous squabbling over the spoils.

Being authentic begins with unconditional self acceptance - imperfections and all.

How you are seen by others becomes the mirror that tells you what you are like and who you are. The ego's sense of self-worth is in most cases bound up with the worth you have in the eyes of others.

...there was no guilt in his face, no doubt, nothing but the calm of an inviolate self-confidence.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.

Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: "Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis for the better.

The Joseph in you must rise to the challenges of life and turn them into gold

Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

You'll always get out of life what you put in-and you control what youput in.

Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat.

It is a poore Center of a Mans Actions, Himselfe.

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.

It is easy-terribly easy-to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to to break a man's spirit is Devil's work.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

visionaries lives between 2 extremes

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone.

It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.

You have to let it go. You can hold on to the hate and the love and even the bitterness, but you have to go of the blame. The blame is what's tearing you down, babe." -Sky

Abandon the idea that you will forever be the victim of the things that have happened to you. Choose to be a victor.

Will was not without his intentions to be always generous, but our tongues are little triggers which have usually been pulled before general intentions can be brought to bear.

Man is not only that which he conceives himself to be, but that which he wills himself to be...

The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

To die trying is the proudest humans thing.

I follow my own methods, and tell as much or as little as I choose. That is the advantage of being unofficial.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician