Self Quotes

Islam united all heresies persecuted in Byzantine Empire and synthesised them well into a conseffion that later became a symbol of Arab self-affirmation.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

There is so much love in your heart that you could heal the planet.

Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these.

Look around and you will see this world is full of creeps like me.

Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom

Is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If nonviolence is to be the law of our being, the future is with women.

Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine.

Because it is possible to create - creating one's self, willing to be one's self - one has anxiety. One would have no anxiety if there were no possibility whatever.

We will see the day when we live on what we produce.

But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.

No one can self-actualize without self-actualizing those around them.

Jealousy fuses megalomania and self-abandonment.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest.

In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.

If the world does not change course, we risk self-destruction.

...I am an anomaly in the system, living proof of how grotesque it is, and every day I mock it gently, deep within my impenetrable self.

Brokenness is the STRIPPING OF SELF-RELIANCE AND INDEPENDENCE FROM GOD...but he is cast in total dependence upon the grace of God working in and through him.

The great master key to riches is nothing more or less than the self-discipline necessary to help you take full and complete possession of your own mind.

Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course towards his objectives in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.

We tend to feel most comfortable, "most at home", with people whose self esteem level resembles our own.

In one degree or another we all struggle with selfishness. Since it is so common, why worry about selfishness anyway? Because selfishness is really self-destruction in slow motion.

But man as a person, the same man, gains mastery over egocentric self-confinement by disclosing a universe in himself...Personality is a universe, it is filled with universal content.

Once you start growing in your self-realization, you develop such a personality that you see the whole world as one.

There is nothing in life so difficult that it cannot be overcome. This faith can move mountains. It can change people. It can change the world. You can survive all the great storms in your life

As you forget self in service to others, you will find that, without seeking it, your own cup of happiness will be full.

Behold thine immortal Self resurrected with Christ in the light of illumination, present in every soul, every flower, every atom!

All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.

When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.

We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.

The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship.

You do your best work when you're not conscious of yourself.

You can't change what you don't acknowledge.

Whenever I have faced a setback I have dusted myself down and got on with the rest of my life because I believed in myself.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.

To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.

Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

I really appreciate when people use their fame and their voice for more than just self-promotion, starting a dialogue about a topic or an issue much bigger than themselves.

I have seen the vision and for self I cannot live; Life is less than worthless till my all I give.

If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another.

There are many moments during a match when you are tense, wrestling with yourself. Tennis is a lesson in self-control.

Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.

There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.

Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?

The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.

He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this 'I' arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.

Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. 'I am' is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.