The Self Quotes

I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, down throw and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.

Learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy.

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines.

The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

[Salvation] is a curious process of divine burglary. The first thing to be wrested from one by a God who said 'Thou shalt not steal' is one's good opinion of one's self.

Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.

Absolutely, I think coming out has allowed me to align who I am with with my creative self.

One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love.

Great self esteem comes from inside and feels hot and wonderful.

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.

Only the individual who has come to terms with his self can have a dispassionate attitude toward the world.

It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.

I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.

I don't watch anything I'm in. Not even on set. I won't go over to the monitor to watch what we've just shot. It's too terrible. I think I'm just very self-conscious.

Knowing when someone's the real deal or not, but still with putting your guard up and self-protecting, you've got to stay open. It comes back to balance.

Fear not. For fear itself is fed by fear, and all fears pass. Did no one tell you so? Come take my hand, my friend, and we will peer into this fear's abyss. And jump! And know.

The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.

It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to a certain standard

The word "freewill" (as also "self-determining power" [autexousiou] used by the Greek Fathers) does not occur in Scripture ... I Cor 7:37 does not mean freedom of the will.

There is but one way in which God should be loved, and that is to take no step except with Him and for Him, and to follow with a generous self-abandonment every thing which He requires.

If you got to castrate your miser'ble self with a piece o' rusty barb wire, do it.

I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

It is easy to be a slave to the letter, and difficult to enter into the spirit; easy to obey a number of outward rules, difficult to enter intelligently and self-sacrificingly into the will of God.

Self-honesty is not putting yourself down or feeling sorry for yourself. Self-honesty is looking at things as they are and then being compelled to make changes.

Souls have different journeys. The best thing to know is, not what everybody else does, but what you do. Self-discovery essentially is finding your own dharma, your own rhythm.

We're blind, deaf and dumb. It is only that Self, which is our life force that makes who and what we are. The realization of that is self-realization.

Only listen to the observations of the enlightened because everyone else is self-centered, egocentric and bound by the net of desire.

No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.

I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense.

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.

There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.

Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction.

Self-respect - The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

The core of my personality consists of many selves.

As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

What is a cozy home? Where you enter and you feel the radiance of your divine self.

A secure individual...knows that the responsibility for anything concerning his life remains with himself-and he accepts that responsibility.

My friend Kurt Maix once described this diffidence as Fear's friendly sister, the right and necessary counterweight to that courage that urges men skyward, and protects them from self-destruction.

Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

There can be no place for self entirely

Up, then, with speed, and work; Fling ease and self away-- This is no time for thee to sleep-- Up, watch, and work, and pray!

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.

You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.

True worship leads to a more full knowledge of self, God, heaven, duty, doctrine, practice and experience.

Doubtless the world is wicked enough; but it will not be improved by the extension of a spirit which self-righteously sees more to reform outside of itself than in itself.

One who is established in a comfortable posturewhile concentrating on the inner self alonenaturally becomes immersed in the spontaneousarising of the heart's ocean of bliss.