Self Quotes
Loneliness is dangerous ... because if aloneness does not lead to God, it leads to the devil. It leads to the self.
What we need are poems that interrogate the world of pronouns, open up possibilities of language and life; forms of politics that support and encourage self-affirmation.
The creator made us creative. Our creativity is our gift from God. Our use of it is our gift to God. Accepting this bargain is the beginning of true self-acceptance.
Freedom is indivisible, and either we are working for freedom or you are working for the sake of your self-interests and I am working for mine.
But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized people who apply them selves to everything.
Everyone's projecting onto you, or you feel like everyone is judging you. I feel like I'm being judged a lot of the time. You become really self-conscious.
I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.
You can make one (self-contained self-rescuer) that would last all day, but you'd have to carry it behind in a wagon.
What I'm now discovering - and I'm now in another decade - is that the older I get the more I have my self knowledge which makes me feel more sexy.
Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it's not worth the risk. I have a great life, a great situation. Why would I want to risk self-destructive behaviour?
For now, we assume that self-evolving robots will learn to mimic human traits, including, eventually, humor. And so, I can't wait to hear the first joke that one robot tells to another robot.
For a second I feel a rush of sadness: for the horizons that vanish behind us, for the people we leave behind, the tiny-doll selves that get stored away and ultimately buried.
Without self-expression, life lacks spontaneity and joy. Without service to others, it lacks meaning and purpose.
God got nothing to lose. Them who think they can use God, they wiping out them own selves. If you think you can use God, you are destroying your own self.
Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.
Reforming is about curbing government power. It is a self-imposed revolution; it will require real sacrifice, and it will be painful.
There is only one issue: man's lack of experience in feeling his Divine self and his innate connection with the Divine. All other issues stem from this.
Turn off any self-talk that tells you that you are destined to live a small life. You're not.
None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.
We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. Theres a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.
When we forgive and let go, not only does a huge weight drop off your shoulders, but the doorway to your own self-love opens.
We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves.
Partly I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last me the rest of my life.
The philosophical I is not the human being, not the human body or the human soul with the psychological properties, but the metaphysical subject, the boundary (not a part) of the world.
within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties.
I felt very awkward and out of place in school. Not popular, not attractive, not special in any way and I was longing for love and approval from someone.
My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.
The object of the Gita appears to me to be that of showing the most excellent way to attain self-realization.
Art is a great means of self-discovery. One of the things that appealed to me in the beginning was that it was a great way to get girlfriends.
God be thanked for that good and perfect gift, the gift unspeakable: His life, His love, His very self in Jesus Christ.
As water and fire oppose one another when combined, so are self-justification and humility opposed to one another.
The UNIA teaches our race self-help and self-reliance... in all those things that contribute to human happiness and well-being.
The key to a successful career is realizing that it's not separate from the rest of your life, but is rather an extension of your most basic self. And your most basic self is love.
Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest.
In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing.
Self belief will always push fear away, but you need to always practice self belief otherwise fear will come back and tap you on the shoulder.
So much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection.
We use NVC to evaluate ourselves in ways that engender growth rather than self-hatred.
None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves.
I know I can walk through the world, along the shore or under the trees, with my mind filled with things of little importance, in full self-attendance. A condition I can't really call being alive.