The Self Quotes

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.

You know men. We have delicate egos.

Once it has learned to dream the double, the self arrives at this weird crossroad and a moment comes when one realizes that it is the double who dreams the self.

It's counterproductive and self-destructive to bear grudges with people that are negative.

The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination

From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God or self for the centre is opened to it.

Falling in love is something that happens to us, being is love is something we do. No passion is self preservatory.

True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.

Self-realization is not complete until it lives in action.

The time will come that gold will hold no comparison in value to a bushel of wheat.

Every positive change in your life begins with a clear, unequivocaldecision that you are going to either do something or stop doing something.

They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.

Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.

A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and make poor choices.

The one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense - adapting one-self to circumstances - and a sense of humor.

All men are idolators, some of fame, others of self-interest, most of pleasure.

When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment.

I believe in self-defense and self-determination for Africans and other oppressed people in America.

Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence.

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

Cultivate humility it is the way of connectedness. Beware of false humility it leads to self-righteousness.

I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed by compassion and love, not by greed and aggressiveness.

Happiness depends on ourselves.

Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.

A self-advertising writer is always a self-extinguished writer.

The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it's the lived past and the anticipated future.

The not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self.

Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

I don’t have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like.

We love best those who are, or act for us, a self we do not wish to be or act out.

Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.

You can leave a kid alone and it will learn to fend for itself, how to work the remote, a tin opener, and the microwave. I see the holidays as a chance for kids to learn self-sufficiency.

Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else.

Identity is invariably false to facts.

Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process

The effects of outcome expectancies on performance motivation are partly governed by self-beliefs of efficacy

Even noteworthy performance attainments do not necessarily boost perceived self-efficacy

I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered — now I have only one doubt left — which of the twain was God?

The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal.

Our essential nature is one of pure potentiality.

Sometimes it just feels so amazing to finally stand up for yourself. I highly recommend it. Life is too short to be taken for granted.

Always remember, actions speak louder than words. No one's perfect, but we can all strive to be better people.

Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.

The most important key to the permanent enhancement of self esteem is the practice of positive inner-talk.

To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.