The Self Quotes
One of the goals of a spiritual practice is self-awareness, and one of the best tools of self-awareness is simple emotional vulnerability.
We manifest character when self-sacrifice for the sake of our principles becomes more important than compromise for the sake of popularity.
... humans have such a need to break everything down into right and wrong. It never occurs to you that you've made those labels up to help you define the material-and your Self.
Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government.
Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of reporting the American Century except from behind the billboards.
The beauty of self realization lies in secretly working out within you everything that is virtuous, that is beautiful, that is joyful.
The individual who knows the score about life sees difficulties as opportunities
There was a time when I thought I turned terrible things over in my mind because I read and wrote too many scary stories. (Note self: start writing about unicorns and bunnies)
What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like.
Everybody was willing to give me a job. But I wanted to do something different. I saw myself as an independent person, self-employed.
There are many ways of casting molecular spells using DNA. What we really want to do in the end is learn how to program self-assembly so that we can build anything.
When you find your authentic self, your identity - your true identity - how many people work a job they hate or live a life, they're going oh my gosh.
Once you create a self-justifying storyline, your emotional entrapment within it quadruples.
I'm a self-confessed genre nerd. I'm a very serious actor, but a genre nerd, all the same.
I believe you can have a much better life if you are true to your core self, and therefore guided by love and intuitive inner knowing.
And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
Love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good, radiating joy and beauty.
We are all so self-obsessed, not really helping others as we should, spreading the love so to speak.
A win gives one a feeling of self-affirmation, and success - a feeling of self-expression, but only a sensible harmonization between these urges can bring really great achievements in chess.
As long as you believe in yourself and your own vision, you have something. When you give up that, you are personally bankrupt.
When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.
If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted.
He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.
Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace.
...you can't let something that'll probably never happen ruin your life. You're only helping to make it a self-fulfilling prophecy
And I want to say that my grandmother was one of the biggest inspirations in my life. She taught me how to be a real woman, to have strength and self-respect, and to never give those things away.
It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
The conquering of adversity produces strength of character, forges self-confidence, engenders self-respect, and assures success in righteous endeavor.
If people lose their land, they have nothing. You lose your land - you lose your culture, you lose self.
People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.
Self-Checkout Line The place where customers of an establishment become unpaid employees of the establishment.
