The Self Quotes

Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness.

Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better.

At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start.

I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man.

Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.

Act as if you are the person you want to be.

Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin experiments.

A friend is a second self.

But love is something that has to be as selfish as it is unselfish. You can't make yourself love someone because you feel like you should. Just wanting to love someone isn't enough.

Be YOU. Don't be someone else. YOU are a unique individual. Be proud... rock it loud.

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.

When someone says, 'I love you,' he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, 'I hate you,' she is telling you about herself, not you. World views are self views-literally.

Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.

The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.

The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.

We can never do the right thing as long as we are out to please someone else.

Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self. Style is opinion, hung washing, the caliber of a bullet, teething beads.

No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.

Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.

Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife.

It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

Know your magic, trust your magic, use your magic and know that you are a manifestation of life's magic.

Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

Just understand that the good that you want is already here. All you have to do is get in harmony with it. And you do that through your own thinking.

A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.

There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God.

Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.

Somehow, we have gotten off track from the basics of health and spirituality, and we get in our own way.

The is a secret for greater self-control, the science points to one thing: the power of paying attention.

Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.

Do what you love and the rest will come.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn't know possible.

Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues.

Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.

The choices you make from this day forward will lead you, step by step, to the future you deserve.

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

We need self-confidence in our ability to build Africa. I trust in Mali and I trust in music.

If I can be my crazy, wild self in front of a person, and he still likes me, that's romantic.

Daily ripples of excellence -over time- become a tsunami of success

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

I think if my eight-year-old self could see me at the Royal Albert Hall winning a prize for playing the Doctor on telly, he would need a stiff shot of Irn-Bru.

The conclusion is straightforward : self-control requires attention and effort.

The Self awakens only as he contacts the Earth.

Everything is in flux: everything changes; the body changes, the soul changes. We are capable of extraordinary self-transmutat ion and internal self-transforma tion.

Sometime, when you start thinking too much what an audience is going to think, when you're too self-conscious about it, you make mistakes.

Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.