The Self Quotes
The real primary diseases of man are such defects as pride, cruelty, hate, self- love, ignorance, instability and greed; and each of these, if considered, will be found to be adverse to Unity.
The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.
Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.
You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.
Karate-do may be referred to as the conflict within yourself, or a life-long marathon which can be won only through self-discipline, hard training, and your own creative efforts.
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
I'm going to get a new hairdo and look terrific and go back to school and even if nobody notices, I'm going to be the most self-fulfilled lady on the block.
That love of self, which the world advocates, is a thousand times more dangerous than any poison.
If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?
How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?
The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.
I think that the older you get, the more you become your true, essential self. You find the things that make you happy. You whittle away the parts of yourself that mean less to you.
When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
Self-control, openness, the ability to engage with others, to plan and to persist - these are the attributes that get people in the door and on the job, and lead to productive lives.
Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated.
The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.
If we can look upon our work not for self-benefit,but as a means to benefit society,we will be practicing appreciation and patience in our daily lives.
The Russian leaders are keen judges of human psychology, and as such they are highly conscious that loss of temper and of self-control is never a source of strength in political affairs.
Because golf exposes the flaws of the human swing - a basically simple maneuver - it causes more self-torture than any game short of Russian roulette.
But before we die, how shall we live? I say with hope and dignity; and if premature death is the result, that death has a meaning reactionary suicide can never have. It is the price of self-respect.
Why don't you make your whole body into a string and play the music of the vibratory electromagnetic self, which is your creativity, and project to the heart of another person?
We each create our world by what we choose to notice, creating a world of distinction that makes sense to us. We then 'see' the world through the self we have created.
Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.
A beautiful person is someone who stays true to themselves and their spirit; someone who is self-confident and can make you smile.
I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.
Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.
Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.
Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
You have to be true to yourself, but you have to be true to your best self, not to the self that secretly thinks you are better than other people.
Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.
Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.
