The Self Quotes
Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty.
Pride is characterized by "What do I want out of life?" rather than by "What would God have me do with my life?" It is self-will as opposed to God's will. It is the fear of man over the fear of God.
The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
The real alchemy is transforming the base self into gold or into spiritual awareness. That's really what new alchemy's all about.
Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom, a lack of self-consciousness, that is innocence.
What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate - and immediately forget we have done so.
Early on when I started talking about my weight, it was self-deprecating; everything was a joke.
By oneself the evil is done, and it is oneself who suffers: by oneself the evil is not done, and by one's Self one becomes pure.
I run each day to preserve the self I attained the day before and to secure the self yet to be.
To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
All minds are joined. Therefore, all healing is self-healing. Our inner peace will, of itself, pass to others once we accept it for ourselves.
And so artistic creation is the metamorphosis of the external physical aspects of a thing into a self-sustaining spiritual reality .
Don't clock anybody, let them all clock you, Don't be down with anybody, let them all be down with you. Stay self-managed, self-kept, self-taught, Be your own man; don't be borrowed, don't be bought.
Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter.
Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.
What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.
The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
Research has shown over and over again that the more you acknowledge your past successes, the more confident you become in taking on and successfully accomplishing new ones.
We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government.
As you expand your meditation practice, in concert with your faith, you will find that these divine moments come more often, until you are finally awakened to your own deepest self, one with Christ.
It's a matter of will. If you know that you can keep your head, and that you must keep your head, you probably will keep your head.
A big part of honesty is self-discipline, personal resolve, and taking pride in who you are as a person and what each action means to your character.
By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. Grenville Kleiser Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Responsibility to self simply means to acknowledge inner truth-our imperfections and our power, our beauty.
The Who, England's most self-conscious band, have released 'Quadrophenia,' which in turn freezes in time our image of the mid-Sixties Mod sensibility.
Whatever... you pretend... if any of you be a prayerless person, or a scoffer, or a lover of evil company, in a word, if you are not a holy, strict, and self-denying Christian, you cannot be saved.
I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!
GIFTS is an acronym for Gratitude, Intention, Forgiveness, Triumphs, and Self-love. I believe that those are the principles we need to explore in order to discover our true gifts.
When I do something, it is all about self-discovery. I want to learn and discover my own limits.
The roots of addiction can be seen in our search for happiness in something outside of our self, be it drugs, relationships, material possessions.