The Self Quotes

The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.

I encourage all you superior seekers in the secret depths to devote yourselves to penetrating and clarifying the self, as earnestly as you would put out a fire on the top of your head.

It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.

Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God.

A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.

The self is not the individual body or mind, but rather that aspect deep inside each individual person that knows the truth.

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

The Satanic message for this age will be reformation and self-development, while the message of God is regeneration by the power of the spirit.

Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

It is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts.

Girls playing sports is not about winning gold medals. It's about self-esteem, learning to compete and learning how hard you have to work in order to achieve your goals.

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

When you understand that your self-worth is not determined by your net-worth, then you'll have financial freedom

When you start to beat yourself up, remind yourself of how worthy you are of love.

self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

We are always the same age inside.

Who I am is the best I can be.

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

I wonder why it is that we so often imprison ourselves in the opinions of other people. There can be no punishment worse than conspiring in our own diminishment.

True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.

In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.

Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives.

I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear.

City lights shine bright on my complexion, Self-reflection...red hairs flashing at the intersection. Life is a green light, one star, no script, Supporting actors...fresh peaches, no pit.

The gap between our sincere values and our actual behavior is the source of all self-hatred.

Ultimately one must abandon the path to enlightenment. If you still define yourself as a Buddhist, you are not a buddha yet.

The conquering of self is truly greater than were one to conquer many worlds.

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

I've come to believe that total nakedness, that is absolute transparency, that is utter and unfettered and profound visibility, is the only way that we can truly love. Anything less, is self-defense.

My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.

When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it's all about.

Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth.

It is attachment to creatures and to self-satisfaction that weakens the blessings of love in your heart. You must die to all that, if you wish the pure love of God to reign therein.

Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us.

Wisdom and power follow endurance and patience.

We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.

Self-negation is noble, self-culture beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared with self-abuse.

I can slay a devil when I see one, Steady practice mastery of self so not to be one

Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal.

To trap one's self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside.

It may take a little self-discipline - be simple, be kind, stay rested. Attend to your own inner-health and happiness.

Self-affection is the real dwelling to which we must always return with a view to a faithfulness to ourselves and an ability to welcome the other as different.

If you're looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else?

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.

Your own thoughts can be your worst enemy!