The Self Quotes

Our self-love is mortified, when we think our opinions, and even our tastes, customs, and dresses, either arraigned or condemned;as, on the contrary, it is tickled and flattered by approbation.

I practice self-control and staying active. Running round the kitchen keeps me moving.

Since when does a queen need an excuse to sing?

For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.

I've always got the road. Stand-up makes you so autonomous and self-sufficient that it really helps with that part of show business.

Having disciples is in the end like having children, only not with love but with self-love preeminent.

A happy life, a life making full use of all our potential is and must be a balanced life. The obstacles to it are mainly illusory; most of our limitations are self-imposed.

Love and Loyalty If ever men and women are their simplest, sincerest selves, it is when suffering softens the one, and sympathy strengthens the other.

Rule yourself. Love your neighbor. Do the duty that lies nearest you.

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

We make butterflies by feeding caterpillars, not by trying to paste wings on them. Kids need to like themselves the way they are, and we can help them develop a positive self-image.

You DO know what to do.

If you don't eat right and you don't know how to take care of your body, you're not going to have the energy to do anything wonderful.

I love who I am and all that I do.

Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?

Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent puzzle. Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.

All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they're set, and where they're moved around.

Every specific tax, as well as the nation's whole tax system, becomes self-defeating above a certain height of the rates.

You're working not for the corporate interest, not for the government interest, not for your own self-interest. You have a higher calling.

So, I'm not on a diet. I'm on a journey with Jesus to learn the fine art of self-discipline for the purpose of holiness.

Self-body hate, like any hate or other strong negative emotion, contributes to unneeded weight gain by triggering junk-food cravings.

Self-love is even deceived by self-love, because by looking out for our own interests and disregarding those of other people, we lose the advantage that comes with the exchange of favors.

There is little advantage in pleasing ourselves when we please no one else, for our great self-love is often chastised by the scorn of others.

There is always enough self-love hidden beneath the greatest devoutness to set limits on charity.

When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity.

What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue.

I suffered fools so gladly.

I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.

Then Maura made something with butter and Calla made something with bacon and Blue steamed broccoli in self-defense.

If she and Sam ever had kids, they'd be gluten-intolerant out of self-defence.

Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident.

A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible.

A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of democracy.

Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.

For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage of the brute.

The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.

Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.

Every truth is self-acting and possesses inherent strength.

If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.

Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.

Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method.

The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.

To one who reads the spirit of the Gita, it teaches the secret of nonviolence, the secret of realizing self through the physical body.

Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.

Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice.

It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.

My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.

Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over man.

Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.

The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.