Self Quotes
When can our brain's innate objectivity begin to flourish? Only when our inappropriate Self-centered subjectivity begins to dissolve.
All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.
The easiest time to cure an illness is before it is accepted as a part of the self-image.
In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.
Let your attacker worry about his life. Don't hold back. Strike no more after he is incapable of further action, but see that he is stopped.
Therefore, if you are attacked, retaliate instantly. Be sudden. Be quick. Speed is your salvation.
If you do the best work you can, the reward is ultimately your self-satisfaction - the sense that you have done the best you can. And then there's that piece of how others respond.
We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.
Simply making consistent investments in our self-education and knowledge banks pays major dividends throughout our lives.
Living God's way means putting away your self-centeredness and committing yourself to follow God's Word in spite of any feelings to the contrary.
The best headlines are those that appeal to the reader's self-interest, that is, headlines based on reader benefits. They offer readers something they want - and get from you.
Even today you can look through almost any consumer or professional publication and find headlines that possess not a single one of the necessary qualities, such as self-interest, news, or curiosity.
Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit.
When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something.
Meditation provides a way of learning how to let go. As we sit, the self we've been trying to construct and make into a nice, neat package continues to unravel.
But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.
For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.
Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life.
The first six years of my career, I got more comments on my weight than on my singing. So I think I became so self-conscious that I started working on it harder.
I've worked so hard to just be my full self and God has just validated me in so many ways.
At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet.
Deepak Chopra, look at him. He's probably the most successful self-help guru in the world. I don't think he's struggling for any marketing or exposure. You've just got to know where your audience is.
From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.
I feel that I am entitled to my share of lightheartedness and there is nothing wrong with enjoying one's self simply, like a boy.
Rereading a favorite novel first read 5, 10, or 20 years ago, is a measure of our travel, how far we've come; it's a way of visiting an earlier self.
Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you become. And when you're not writing, READ.
The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this refusal is called romanticism; in psychology, neurosis.
Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.
Psychoanalysis comes down to the process itself - the self, and life. I think I can say that I'm friends with the unconscious life, but I've never tried to make a painting directly from a dream.
Surely the United States Senate is big enough to take self-criticism and self-appraisal. Surely we should be able to take the same kind of character attacks that we "dish out" to outsiders.
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.
