The Self Quotes

Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.

There is a higher more powerful part of you. Your higher self will come through your intuition, coincidences and synchronicity of all kinds.

[Travel seems] not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant.

Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

Writing mirrors the interior self. You know, any book is like the perfect blueprint of the psyche of the author.

If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost.

There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before one has scarcely made the first rough draught of his work.

We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.

Kindness can reach the deepest call of the heart and soul, and lead to a different kind of world and self.

I cannot avoid condemning all those who, from self-conceit have the pretension to imitate great artists of the past. If their powers of emotion be weak, their powers of expression will be likewise.

Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.

Seeing one's books on the shelf tells you so much about the way somebody has, over the years, put together their private library, which is a reflection of their minds and their selves.

Mach-5, the speed at which stress can't keep up, is simply forward motion. But it has to be self- propelled. Note that people in cars are still stressed.

You're damned if you're too thin and you're damned if you're too heavy. According to the press, I've been both. It's impossible to satisfy everyone and I suggest we stop trying.

Self-conceit is a weighty quality, and will sometimes bring down the scale when there is nothing else in it. It magnifies a fault beyond proportion, and swells every omission into an outrage.

Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.

We cannot, even given our most imaginative efforts, construct a concept of Self that does not impute some causal influence of prior mental states on later ones.

Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer.

Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.

When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.

Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.

Am I caught in a self-centred, narrow little cell which refuses to look beyond? Do I see it when you come along and tell me that my brain is the brain of all mankind?

I think growing up in Indiana prepares anyone for a life in comedy. I do feel like there is a certain kind of self-effacing cynicism among all Hoosiers.

Self-preservation has a tendency to lead to poverty.

There's so many bigger things in the world. The art world is such a tiny little thing compared to wars and migration crises. It's weird to be self-absorbed in it.

I felt a comedy ego beginning to grow, which gave me the courage to begin tentatively looking into myself for material.

If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying.

If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.

When your self and your life belong to your being, your self opens, your life opens, your being comes in, and it will have everything. It is the single greatest turning point in your life.

For you to be free of your thinking mind, that will cost you the way that you've put your self together. It will cost you your patterned self.

Your self doesn't represent the truth in you, your being does. Give your ease only to what you know represents the truth in you.

Life is a partial, continuous, progressive, multiform and conditionally interactive self-realization of the potentialities of atomic electron states.

Such subtle Covenants shall be made,Till Peace it self is War in Masquerade.

I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as a self-governing people to hear everything relevant.

Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.

Self-respect,--the corner-stone of all virtue.

The abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror - we all have it - that shadow self - that dark heart.

How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self.

I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.

Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.

I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.

The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.

Caught in the self-centered dream, only suffering; holding to self-centered thoughts, exactly the dream; each moment, life as it is, the only teacher; being just this moment, compassion's way.

See If You Can Give Yourself Gifts That May Be True Blessings, Such As Self-Acceptance

A Romantic ideology that predates rock glorifies the self-destructive artist as someone who's too honest and delicate for this world... It's not an easy job, and its stresses can take their toll.

The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."

Self-respect governs morality: respect for others governs our behavior.

Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.