The Self Quotes

Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egotistical selves.

The most self-destructive thought that any person can have is thinking that he or she is not in total control of his or her life. That’s when, ‘Why me?’ becomes a theme song.

I think it's a nice payback. There aren't many people that kind of give back to artists that were their inspiration. Most people think they're . . . they're very self bloated.

Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control.

If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them, however difficult that may be.

The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance.

Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.

Time is the great doctor of your life. You have to respect the doctor. The devouring self is the patient. Listen to the doctor.

It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression.

We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource [Information] that is not only renewable, but self- generating. Running out of it is not a problem, but drowning in it is.

Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become a spacious place.

Say Bismillah, In the name of God, as the shaykh does with a knife when he offers an animal. Bismillah your old self to find your real name. - Jalaluddin al

Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.

I've learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it.

By listening to your higher self, or Atman, you can return to the truth that's already inside of you and in the process change not only yourself, but the entire world, through positivity and love.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

I, of whom I know nothing, I know my eyes are open, because of the tears that pour from them unceasingly.

There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.

Men at some time are masters of their fates.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

The cost of leadership is self-interest.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.

Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are.

The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate.

Meditation is realizing and expanding your inner beauty in every direction.

I will walk by myself and cure myself in the sunshine and the wind.

When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.

You are magnificent beyond measure, perfect in your imperfections, and wonderfully made.

Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good.

Speed eliminates all doubt. Am I smart enough? Will people like me? Do I really look all right in this plastic jumpsuit?

I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

Without awareness, we are not truly alive.

We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small.

Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.

We are what we think.

...wanting change is step one, but step two is taking it.

Some strive to make themselves great. Others help others see and find their own greatness. It's the latter who really enrich the world we live in

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.

Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.

He who would be well taken care of must take care of himself.

The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

Spend your time designing the greatest reputation a man could possess.

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

Think and then think what you have thought. Is it really what you had thought. Think again.