The Self Quotes
It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.
What is guilt? It is moral self-reproach-I did wrong when it was possible to have done otherwise.
Trying to observe the slow shift from self-centeredness to empathy is like trying to watch grass grow.
When at length we tire of putting people down, this self-inflicted fatigue can give way to the invigorating calisthenics of lifting people up.
It's just I might get distracted, and I get lost kind of easily, and sometimes I have really bad days...when, you know, I just want to hide or scream or bleed or something, and...all that...
People are self-absorbed. I think that the mass ability of communication now probably allows individuals to meet more self-absorbed individuals. It has certainly changed the way that people meet.
Self-pity is an ignoble emotion, but we all feel it, and the orthodox critical line that it represents some kind of artistic flaw is dubious, a form of emotional correctness.
Self-righteous and entitled but they swearin' on the Bible that they love you When really they no different from all your rivals.
Know your own Self. Honor your own Self. Find and be who you really are, at the deepest level of your own being. Be present in your own presence. Give yourself the gift of your own Self.
I don't say you're self-censoring - I'm sure you believe everything you're saying; but what I'm saying is, if you believed something different, you wouldn't be sitting where you're sitting.
Nothing can stand in the way of the man who focuses his entire self on a problem.
We have become a society where the artist is regarded as a self-indulgent superfluity, and the person who juggles stocks and shares is an essential part of the economy.
I think people are inherently self-aggrandizing, pleasureseeking, unempathetic, self-serving, greedy and lustful.
When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world.
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability based on the play of energies.
Displaying yourself as sexy doesn't do anything to increase sexual self-knowledge or pleasure.
The essence of practice is always the same: instead of falling prey to a chain reaction of revenge or self-hatred, we gradually learn to catch the emotional reaction and drop the story lines.
All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
Deep down, the Iraqi people want the United States out. And their self-determination should be respected.
With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked. In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted. Cause I love to be loved.
If you never lived out your sexuality - it's a great force, and if you try to fight it, what does that create? Energy: positive and negative, self-loathing.
The aim is not therefore to liberate some 'essential self' by throwing off the burden of government and the State, but to develop the self in creative and voluntary relations with others.
This is our true wealth: the riches we take with us, the joy we carry inside, the support we learn to give ourselves, and the self-loving that flows as a natural by-product of that support.
Transformation occurs when existing solutions, assumed truths and past decisions are exposed as unrealistic and self-defeating.
Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating.
I hate being moved. I hate that man who came in. So self-righteous, so cruel. He made fun of me, that's why I cried. You never did that. You led me into temptation by your - politeness.
You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.
But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is commonly called sanity in the places where I have lived.
Self-love is better than any gilding to make that seem gorgeous wherein ourselves be parties.
I'm not so interested in the effort that it takes to have a self-promotional outlook. I believe in being quiet and making my work and just trying to make discoveries and let the painting evolve.
But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him.
A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants
God is not solitude, but perfect communion. For this reason the human person, the image of God, realizes himself or herself in love, which is a sincere gift of self.
There is something about going to sea. A little bit of discipline, self-discipline and humility are required.
Who is going to be the first to face up to the need for self-restraint in the number of children brought into the world?
By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.
It's easy for me to say, "Oh yeah, that's the self-saboteur move that most artists pull whenever they're afraid."
Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease
It's up to each of us to get very still and say, 'This is who I am.' No one else defines your life. Only you do.
All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown.
Walk through life eager and open to self-improvemen t and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why we're here - to evolve as human beings.
Allowing the truth of who you are-your spiritual self-to rule your life means you stop the struggle and learn to move with the flow of your life.
The players have no real self-esteem when it comes to putting the best image out there in a real competitive fashion.