The Self Quotes

To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding.

We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.

Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others.

To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world.

Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself? Your looking-glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face.

Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something that, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody.

That's the main business of the poem!-to see if you can't make up a language that sets all your selves talking at once-all of them being fair to each other.

There’s nothing wrong with wanting to be with someone,” I said diplomatically. Unless that person turns your world upside down and makes you lose all self-control.

I headed towards the mountain, which was an almost irresistible beacon to my storm self. It glowed with heat, pressure, and turbulence—everything a little dust devil like me could want.

As long as you pretend to be self-sufficient, you short-circuit God's power in your life. You need to admit your inadequacy and say, "God, I can't handle this!"

Three enemies that will weaken your ministry over time: Self-indulgence, bitterness, and carelessness. Strong people discipline their desires, restrain their reactions, and keep their commitments.

Poetry connects you to yourself, to the self that doesn't know how to talk or negotiate.

Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.

Men have better self-images than women. You know what I've never seen in a men's magazine? A makeover.

When they say "Be yourself," which self do they mean?

People never realize how much work impacts there self esteem and sense of purpose until they leave a job.

It is often said that our modern world is incapable of self-government.

A person who knows who they are is not threatened by the beliefs of others.

If you believe that weight loss requires self-deprivation, Im going to teach you otherwise.

We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle.

There is part of us that stands in quiet witness to what we do, taking notes, waiting for a solitary moment to bring up the subject.

Yes, and even for the past...that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was. Something I can accept. Mistakes made by the self I had to be or was not able to be.

The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.

Above all things, one should maintain his self-respect, and there is but one way to do that, and that is to live in accordance with your highest ideal.

My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity.

Pass down values every day through your actions, your words and your time with your kids.

The market doesn't make communities. Markets make networks of self-interested individuals, and they work as long as there's more than enough to go around.

If any one hates to be alone with himself, the chances are that he has not much of any self to be alone with.

Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.

True forgiveness is a willingness to change your mind about your Self.

You are the key to happiness.

my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.

We always condemn most in others, he thought, that which we most fear in ourselves.

This relates to the concept of time and our ability as dreamers to reach across time to a past or future self and do some good. This is very important as it relates to soul loss and soul recovery.

I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next ten years felt like a self-centered experiment in personal abuse.

The path to success used to be up and through an organization. Now the path to success is increasingly through self-promotion.

I have found over the years that the most important way of getting people to relax is self-deprecating humor.

Those caught in the cycle of self-concern suffer helplessly, while the compassionate are more free and, implicitly, more happy.

Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self.

Truly enlightened people never seek to be like others. Rather, they seek to be superior to their former selves.

Challenge serves beautifully to introduce you to your best - and most brilliant - self.

An excuse is the tool our weak self uses to prevent our strongest self from reaching greatness.

You're best when you're not in charge. The ego locks the muse.

You can become much more independent, much more courageous with a bank account. And also, much more independent and self-reliant when you know you have money behind you.

Our self-acknowledgement, our dedication has to be bigger than our fear.

To a large degree, those early lean days were self-imposed.

Anytime you make a person into something other than himself, you make a monster.

Selfless acts are a source of profound meaning for your self and your life.

You do more for yourself when you forget yourself.

Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational.