The Self Quotes
Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth.
God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.
Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.
An individual's harmony with his or her 'own deep self' requires not merely a journey to the interior but a harmonizing with the environmental world.
By seeing the beauty in every face we lift others into their wisest self and increase the chances of hearing a synchronistic message.
It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what sort of women we become.
The Western world is ... looked upon as being arrogant, self-satisfied, greedy and with no limits. And Sept. 11 is an occasion for me to realize it even more.
Rhythm to me is essentially what Hopkins called the taste of self. I taste myself as rhythm.
The buddah can reside in the gears of a motorcycle as easily as in a flower on a mountaintop. To believe otherwise is to demean the buddah; which is to demean one's self.
There is no 'my self' and 'his self'. There is the Self, the only Self of all. Misled by the diversity of names and shapes, minds and bodies, you imagine multiple selves.
All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy.
Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery.
Our thinking about who we are as Christians should not begin with what we can discover about ourselves by self-analysis. Rather, it begins with what God says about those who trust in Christ.
Trust emerges when we have a sense that another person or organization is driven by things other than their own self-gain.
Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.
The comfort zone is always the most desirable place to be. But in settling for comfort, there is a price to pay and it comes in the death of ambition, of hope, of youth and the death of self.
Integrity is not a given factor in everyone's life. It is a result of self-discipline, inner trust, and a decision to be relentlessly honest in all situations in our lives.
When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights, national self-determination, and respect for the rule of law.
We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them.
It is much easier and safer to scare someone into submission than to beat them into submission.
no one in a group of three is the same person he (she, it) is in a group of two. No more than he is the same in a group of two as he is alone.
Shatter the glass. In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. Learn more about the face of your neighbor and less about your own.
Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
Humility, reverence, compassion, forbearance, sacrifice and self-control are the qualities that reveal the outcome of the true education.
So I place my heart under lock and key, to take some time to look after me. But when I turn around you're standing there.
Today's marketing success comes from self-publishing web content that people want to share. It's not about gimmicks. It's not about paying an agency to interrupt others.
Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort
We treat our future selves as though they were our children, spending most of the hours of most of our days constructing tomorrows that we hope will make them happy
Only in America could you find a way to make a healthy buck, And still keep your attitude on self-destruct.
Until we recognize the SELF that exists apart from who we think we are - we cannot know the Ch'an ( ZEN ) MIND
It's better to have a broken CD player that worked once than to never have evolved into a self-aware carbon based lifeform.
Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.
Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense.
A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.
The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.
Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.
The self is not only the centre but also the whole circumference which embraces both conscious and unconscious; it is the centre of this totality, just as the ego is the centre of consciousness.
It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.