The Self Quotes
We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves.
If you look at the public opinion polls even, support for all the issues, people who self-identify as feminists are as least as many as those who self-identify as Republicans.
Our hair can be a fun outlet for self expression. I love wearing cornrows and getting my hair thread-wrapped because it feels ancient and African.
Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.
Learn to live more in the Self. Come down a little bit to eat and talk as necessary.
We wanted a periodical that would help people live richer, fuller, freer, more self-directed lives.
I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed.
Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders.
Our souls - our invisible selves - bear the mark of God Himself. We're like God in that we bear His image.
Philosophically, what I have learned is to thy own self be true. That is the biggest lesson of all. Relax; music is fun. To many people take it to seriously because of the money involved.
How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.
I always say you can self-medicate through closet cleaning. Everyone knows that feeling of a clear surface, and how it makes you feel you can really focus and start your work.
I think self-knowledge is a key to happiness.We can build happy lives only on the foundation of our own natures, our own values, and our own interests.
We conquer ourselves by learning patience, for she gives to us our longed for victory only in the surrender of self.
Real prayer, the soul-transformi ng kind, is self-discontinu ity. It is a conscious act of self-suspension arising from the wish for something new to occur.
Self-pity is the campsite of self-defeat; it is a dark refuge for those parts of us that would rather wallow in what cannot be than dare to explore what is possible.
I learned how difficult it is to self-publish a book. It's complex, it's confusing, it's idiosyncratic.
I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.
Doubt, not self-reflection, comes from a destructive energy, and when it rears its head, I talk to it like a lunatic.
Las Vegas is the therapeutic ethos of our time run amok, our socio-psychological promise to ourselves to be eternally young writ large on the landscape of aging self-indulgence.
A self-help book can't really address a problem unless it's individualized. It's not going to talk about a globalized problem.
It is by extending oneself, by exercising some capacity previously unused that you come to a better knowledge of your own potential.
Philip Martin has written a wise, compassionate, and nurturing guide through the self-oppression of depression.
Self-Realisation. Soul recognition. The entering of Soul into the Soul Plane and there beholding Itself as pure Spirit. A state of seeing, knowing, and being.
The EKC or Holy Spirit, can lift the most common beginning to the highest good. Yet to secceed, we must surrender our little self to achieve divine love.
The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
That ignorant confidence in one's self and one's future, which comes in life's first dawn, has a sort of mournful charm in experienced eyes, who know how much it all amounts to.
Self-help books for women are part of a multibillion-dollar industry, sensitively attuned to our insecurities and our purses.
Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might be a handle to take hold of.
This person, this self, this me, finally, was made somewhere else. Everything had come from somewhere else, and it would all go somewhere else. I was nothing but a pathway for the person known as me.
I am dead against trying to keep religious conservatives out of the political debate. The tactic of exclusion is self-defeating.
Do what's in front of you as well as possible. Keep going until you realize what you're best at.
Where does this guy's ambition go? That's very peculiar. I think he's a very disturbing person, I think he's a very disturbing politician. Personally, I feel his interest is a self-interest
Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriages and friendships come apart.
Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small.
It's very hard to be good. It is self-destructive thinking to think that there is too much good.
For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect.
If there is to be no loss whatever of dignity or self-respect in getting and staying on relief, then there can be no gain in dignity or self-respect in makings some sacrifices to keep off.
Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.
Am I self-righteous? Why not? It's not like I can count on you to be righteous for me.
