The Self Quotes
What others think about you is none of your business.
She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.
The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.
The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.
Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like grits, but with high self-esteem.
She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself.
True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.
A warrior doesn't know remorse for anything he has done, because to isolate one's acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil is to place an unwarranted importance on the self.
If you believe in living a respectable life, you believe in self-help which is the best help!
To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.
Do we really think that a government-dominated education is going to produce citizens capable of dominating their government, as the education of a truly vigilant self-governing people requires?
The abused children are alone with their suffering, not only within the family, but also within themselves. They cannot crate a place in their own soul where they could cry their beart out.
Religion becomes a hollow shell of its former self when ritual remains and thoughtful reflection disappears.
The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice.
A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness.
If you are all open in your heart, you are clean. If you are all open in your self, you are naive.
I am not afraid of much. I kill all the spiders in my house, and I'm planning to go skydiving. I am into girl power, and I'm very self-sufficient.
So the secret is just to say 'Yes!' and jump off from here. Then there is no problem. It means to be yourself, always yourself, without sticking to an old self.
The greatest enemy of progress is your last success, you could become so proud of what you've already accomplished that you stop moving ahead to what you can still accomplish
Self is the great antichrist and anti-God in the world, that sets up itself above all else.
We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.
We are not saved by denying self, or taking up our cross, or doing anything else, we are saved by simply believing in Jesus.
People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
A shepherd, in whom the spirit of God works, is more highly esteemed before God than the wisest and most potent in self-wit, without the divine dominion.
As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both - winning and losing - get easier.
We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.
The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage.
By regarding ourselves with kindness, we begin to dissolve the identity of an isolated, deficient self. This creates the grounds for including others in an unconditionally loving heart.
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.
it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.