The Self Quotes
Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your "self-sufficiency."
For many artists fame complements the value of creative self-expression. Ludwig van Beethoven loved composing music, but he probably would have enjoyed it less if no one ever listened to the product.
My parents both worked full time. I remember a lot of simple meals. Everything I know about cooking is self-schooled.
Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations.
Unlike art, the consumption of fashion is not based primarily on knowledge or education but functions through visual awareness, a type of sensuality and perception of the corporeal self.
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.
If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.
I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.
One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and higher self, of which the ordinary self is a servant.
A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.
The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save her ignorance and self-dignity.
Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.
We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.
I lay my head on the railroad track, waitin' on the Double E. But the train don't run by here no more, poor, poor, pitiful me.
The attitude of saints toward their possessions most assuredly signifies whether they continue to preserve their self life or whether they have consigned it to death.
When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of words.
Self-mastery is the challenge of transforming yourself from own worst enemy into your greatest ally.
Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.
Ultimately all idolatry is worship of the self projected and objectified: all idolization is self-idolization.
Happiness must be shared. Selfishness it its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one's self. It is quiet, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within.
Self-defense is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself.
I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self.
But poverty, with most who whimper forth Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe; The effect of laziness, or sottish write.
Raising self-centered kids is not good for society, but it's also not good for their own mental health to be completely self-absorbed.
Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which it loves, by showing how little is deserved by others.
Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don't argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.
To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul.
I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
Fear and niceness, the handmaids of all women, or more truly, woman its pretty self.
Against self-slaughter There is a prohibition so divine That cravens my weak hand.
Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live!
I had a lot of growing and a lot of denying of self to do. I am not easily won over, but when I am, I am completely won over.
I don't like to have anybody tell me to be in a place at certain times. That's kind of the advantage of stand up. You're self-employed.
The belief that consciousness extends beyond death is surely to put more belief in the permanence of self, not less. That seems to me a comfort that you're allowing yourself.
And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.
I'm addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there's so damn much about myself to improve.
Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.
Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism.