The Self Quotes
An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself - self-discipline , self-control.
If we understand the revolutionary transformations caused by new media, we can anticipate and control them; but if we continue in our self-induced subliminal trance, we will be their slaves.
Self-programming, what you believe and affirm about yourself, is the basis of who you are.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action.
In my own deepening understanding of myself I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well. The better I am at self-care the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be.
If you are interested in photography because you love it and are obsessed with it, you must be self-motivated, a perfectionist, and relentless.
The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.
Understand this great truth: The happiness that comes from the pleasures of the world is but a minute reflection of the infinite bliss that comes from within your own Self.
Only when human beings are able to perceive and acknowledge the Self in each other can there be real peace.
Acting requires absorption, but not self-absorption and, in the actor's mind, the question must always be 'Why am I doing this?,' not 'How am I doing it?
Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success.
Any human being exists only as a member of the wider community of life, air, water, and soil. We have no existence apart from the living earth. We are Earth. What we do to Earth, we do to our self.
Robots may gradually attain a degree of 'self-awareness' and consciousness of their own.
I'd probably say to my younger self, get yourself a whole collection of lawyers. Which is what I have now.
The Self is the one thing you can discover, not by travelling miles, but by being very still inside your own being and saying to the Supreme, Yes, absorb me.
Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.
As long as we place millions of Indians at the centre of our thought process, as long as we think of their welfare, their future, their opportunities for self-realisation we are on the right track.
At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition
If you neglect to exercise self-control, you are not only likely to injure others, but you are sure to injure yourself!
Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.
Total, unconditional acceptance of yourself is the first step in building a positive self-image.
The truth which can be actualized after Self Realization is that you are not this body, this mind, this conditioning from the past, this ego, these emotions, but that you are the pure spirit.
Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating.
Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God.
Through Self-realization man becomes aware of true values as to his place in the divine plan and his relation to the past, present, and future of mankind.
A relapse doesn't mean you'll never walk down the path you prefer. But I think relapses are almost an inevitable part of any course of self-development.
A companion is but another self; wherefore it is an argument that a man is wicked if he keep company with the wicked.
It is a kind of self-projection of our sins when we insist on other people becoming good. In reality, we wish to become good, but because we are unable to, we demand it of others and insist on this.
I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.
I have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world.
If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression .
A man is first reverent about himself, and self-respect is the first stage in reverence for all things.
It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.
Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need for doubting if one would lose or gain the Self.
One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems...wars, nations, destructions...to refuse to be a part of them, and express the highest selves we know how to be.
Now, what is Jesus Christ? The fruit of the spirit is a good example. Jesus is total love, total joy, total peace, total patient, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, and self-control.