The Self Quotes
Satsang is the invitation to step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you, it will burn only what you are not.
The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets.
After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.
When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.
And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.
The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.
I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.
Confidence is not based on you having all the resources needed to take care of yourself; confidence is based upon the truth that God is faithful.
The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.
The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.
The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.
Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.
Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
Self-love means caring for ourselves enough to forgive people in our past so that the wounds can no longer damage us - for our wounds do not hurt the people who hurt us, they hurt only us.
I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false.
Anger is like A full hot horse, who being allowed his way, Self-mettle tires him.
When you step further into the story you came to live, not only does the mythic territory open, but the deep self moves and the world of imagination and meaning comes towards you.
To search for truth about self is as valuable as to search for truth in other areas of life.
No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.
The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them
If we want authenticity, we have to initiate it. Self-discovery takes us to the wildest places on earth
The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.
Self-actualized people...live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the proletarian movement.
Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours.
Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others. ♥
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.