Self Quotes
Of course I was wearing make-up, I never went anywhere without red lipstick for 25 years! It was a form of self-preservation for me to continue to wear lipstick even though my face was broken.
Love of others and love of ourselves are not alternatives. On the contrary, an attitude of love towards themselves will be found in all those who are capable of loving others.
Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else.
Rely on yourself, and be true to who you are. What's unique about you is what will take you far. Don't look to others to say you're okay. You know it--so believe it!-- show your own self the way.
The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge and it is usually acquired laboriously through experience outside the classroom.
We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
It was on the cross of Calvary that God, in Christ, dealt fully and finally with self, the nature from which all our sins flow.
Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be.
That's the thing about needs. Sometimes when you get them met, you don't need them anymore.
Reverence is the sense that there is something larger than the self, larger even than the human, to which one accords respect and awe and assent.
A life of fulfillment is one in which we put urgency in its place and remember that the ultimate target is to spend our lives doing the things we believe are most important to us.
A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
The Jew has his anchorage not in place but in time, in his highly developed sense of history as personal context. Six thousand years of self-awareness are a homeland.
The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the "I."
Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.
The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.
The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.
Why are young adults so self-centered and always seeking instant gratification? Because older adults, often in positions of power, paint them that way.
In the empty heart, void of self can be heard the echoing cry, "I am the Truth." Thus is man one with the eternal. Travelling, travel and traveller have become one.
Religions are the training wheels of self enlightenment. They can be helpful in the beginning but at some point they must be let go.
Our best work is done, our greatest influence is exerted, when we are without thought of self.
When you operate from the Higher Self, you feel centered and abundant?in fact, overflowing. When you experience this abundance, your fears automatically disappear.
I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.
I've always believed in God. I remember once a guy asked me what it was like to be self-employed. I said, I'm not self employed. I work for God. The pay is good; He works me hard.
On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.
Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery.
The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence.
A good idea has self-expanding qualities. It stimulates those who see it to add to it.
It is our hypocrisy and self-focus that drains us. When we become purpose centered, internally directed other focused and externally open, we discover energy we didn't know we had.
Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
People search for joy everywhere not knowing that the Self is the source of all joy
Self-study, in a sense of learning by yourself without anybody teaching you anything, has an enormous value.