Self Quotes

What's important is self-appreciation

All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.

The paraphrase of Gödel's Theorem says that for any record player, there are records which it cannot play because they will cause its indirect self-destruction.

Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.

A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open.

Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays

Ninety-nine percent of all work on self is attitudinal.

When the ego dominates in organizations, even spiritual organizations, there is usually a big drama or upheaval of some kind, and self-destruction begins.

A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge.

Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.

The goal of evolution is self - conquest

I'm self-confident and not afraid to speak my mind.

Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.

You have to get beyond the barrier of self-protection before you can really fly.

Unconsciousness of self is not so much unselfishness as it is the mental ability to extinguish all thought of one's self - exactly as one turns out the light.

Excesses are essentially gestures. It is easy to be extremely cruel, magnanimous, humble or self-sacrificing when we see ourselves as actors in a performance.

Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth

We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest.

Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.

If you would stop analyzing everything and just look for things to appreciate, you would live happily ever after.

Eroticism thrives in the space between the self and the other.

For me, self-discipline has never corresponded to a voluntary adhesion to norms invented by others. It has always been the first step towards breaking the chains.

There is just so much excess in terms of the market for self-remodeling. I think most women are perfectly gorgeous and beautiful the way they are.

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.

I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

The brain alone is intricate beyond mapping, powerful beyond imitation, rich in diversity, self-protecting, and self-renewing. The secret is that it is grown, not built.

The teaching process is lengthy because there are many, many states of mind to go through. And in each state of mind there is a different aggregate of self to be explored.

It is implicit in the self that the self will automatically evolve if you can dissolve it. It re-patterns itself after archetypal formations that exist deep within the mind.

People who are advanced meditators don't worry about liberation and self-realization; they instead are interested in the welfare of others and aiding others in their liberation.

Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering, that stillness.

I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either

Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects - themselves.

A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves.

Any material form, or thought, or feeling, past or present, should be regarded as, 'This is not mine, this is not what I am, this is not my self.'

Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus with thy hand!

To make fun of a person to his face is a brutal way of amusing one's self; be delicate and cunning, and keep your laugh in your sleeve, lest you frighten away your game.

Each of us has great gifts, but many of us severely limit ourselves with negative attitudes about our potential.

If you're reading it in a book, folks, it ain't self-help. It's help.

The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life.

When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.

The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?

There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.

To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.

My own heart let me more have pity on; let Me live to my sad self hereafter kind, Charitable; not live this tormented mind With this tormented mind tormenting yet.