The Self Quotes

The shaman is a self-realized person. She discovers the ways of Spirit through her inner awakening.

I think we have to prepare the mind in one way or another to accept the great uprush or downrush, whichever you like to call it, of the greater non-self.

I wanted to protect the songs. I wanted to make sure I could write freely and not be self-conscious about it.

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

Washington D.C.! Congress is full of self-declared outsiders.

Producing is the antidote to acting. Producing is practical problem solving all day long. As opposed to endless self-obsession and navel gazing.

I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission.

PhD, MFA, self-taught - the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the face of extremity, failure, and success.

Self-pity does not appreciate pedantry.

I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service.

Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.

Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.

Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.

Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.

I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.

I see no clear reason why the doctrine of self-interest properly understood should turn men away from religious beliefs.

No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it.

Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise.

Thoroughly to believe in one's own self, so one's self were thorough, were to do great things.

We are self-uncertain creatures, and we may Yea, even when we know not, mix our spites And private hates with our defence of Heaven.

Charm is that extra quality that defies description.

Peace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the "self" has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality.

Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.

Chicken exits are self-sabotage. They give you a false explanation for why you don't have something you want.

We can only take it so far, because man can only take it so far, lower self can only take it so far, and you have to realize that the public is only at a certain place.

And now too late, we see these things are one: The art is sacrifice and self-control And who loves beauty must be stern of soul.

for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe from invasion.

I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.

You'll say I'm self-destructive I constructed all this tragedy. Go tell them all it's all my fault You'll tell them I was crazy . And anyway it's over now Nothing left to say.

I know for me, when I would drink, I circumvented my own self-protection and my own judgment and my own discrimination - the healthy kind of judgment and discrimination.

I've been on 'Days' since I was 16, and being surrounded by such thin, gorgeous actresses made me so insecure and self-conscious.

The relation of the law to the self is only a helpful way of thinking about the law, that helps us better understand its validity for us.

It seems to me self-evident that it is worthwhile to understand the best thoughts of the past, to appropriate them, to criticize them.

Fichte thinks that the mutual recognition of one another as free beings belongs among the transcendental conditions of self-consciousness itself.

Fichte takes an I or free will to be not a thing or being but an act which is not undetermined but self-determined, in accordance with reasons or norms rationally self-given.

The moral law is simply the way we think our own freedom as self-determination.

What is central to morality is rational self-constraint (acting from duty), in cease where there is no other incentive to do your duty except that the moral law commands it.

Oh.' I shot upright. 'I was in Mongolia.' Note to self: learn to be a less extreme liar.

Note to self: Rachel Morgan is a totally awesome liar.

My advice: write down everything you eat. It's amazing what that "self honesty" can do for you. (Do you really want to have to confess that doughnut? I thought not.)

I think a good role model has to be sexy. Real, empowered, self-possessed women are sexy. When you're really in control of your choices, your mood, your body, and your opinions, people find you sexy.

I am in an extended self-directed course of study. That is, I am in control of my own life.

Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.

MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.

DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters.

Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.

The art of appreciation begins with self appreciation.

You cannot tie your fiance to the railroad track of self-reflection and personal improvement.

In life, you don't get instant satisfaction. In life, you get to slog. You work. You grow. You take the long view. You fill the void with self-actualization.

Half of Wisconsinites are considered alcoholics. It's part of the culture of Wisconsin... if self-deprecation is their survival instinct, alcohol is their coping mechanism.