The Self Quotes

Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.

Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.

The questionnaire is a simple first step toward becoming more self-aware.

For, know that each soul constantly meets its own self. No problem may be run away from. Meet it now!

Do not work self into a state of over-anxiety at the changes that will be found, or attempt to use up the strength and vitality ... Forget not the sources of thine inspiration.

Never neglect an opportunity for improvement.

My best male friend is my best friend until he crosses me. We're all protective of the self.

The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence.

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.

There is always one thing to be grateful for - that one is one's self and not somebody else.

Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.

I am not self-destructive. I am not a person who wants to die.

It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense, which cramps and restrains our nature.

Freedom means self-fulfillment. It also means putting up with other people's irritating pursuit of the same. It means being confronted by disturbing images and ideas.

Sexual self-restraint was only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

The call for a sincere gift of self is the fullest way to realize our personal freedom.

We all have our worries about our bodies and our looks. We just need to make the best of our lovely, wonky selves. The key is never to compare and try to be something you're not.

Your self-portait decides your conduct.

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.

Most souls labor under a self imposed curse of desiring but never truly giving themselves over to love.

If it is love that makes the world go round, it is self-induction that makes electromagnetic waves go round the world.

For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.

Our capacity for self-deception has no known limits

Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.

Don't limit your challenges; challenge your limits. Each day we must strive for constant and never ending improvement.

The happiness of God-realization is self-sustained, eternally fresh and unfailing, boundless and indescribable. And it is for this happiness that the world has sprung into existence.

The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.

The people is dead! Good-day, Self!

It turns out that our notions of what a 'self' is and how it might feel fulfilled have no more objective status than most of the rest of reality. It seems we make ourselves up as we go along.

It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.

Who you are, in truth, who everyone is, is whole and perfect and beautiful. And if that can be recognized, then it is possible that self-torture can stop!

The battle for self-discipline may leave you a bit bruised and battered but always a better person.

We are the hero of our own story.

The Baby Boomers: whiny, narcissistic, self-indulgent people with a simple philosophy: "Gimme that! It's mine!"

The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.

We are in our Self. We are not in the world.

Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and stable individuality.

Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.

The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service.

I don't decide. My secret self decides. I just go with my subconscious. If it wants to do a poem, I do a poem, and if it wants to do a play, I do a play. So I'm not in charge, I'm not in control.

Be content to seem what you really are.

I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.

For me, self-care is a lesson I'm still learning. But it begins with space away from the heaviness of life. I now take time to play, laugh, and, every once in awhile, sleep.

The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.

Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.

Ritual disposal of the dead speaks clearly of an awareness of death, and thus an awareness of self.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.