The Self Quotes
Like a fragrance to a flower, true happiness is an expression of your unconditional self...the real you.
Decide to forgive: For resentment is negative; resentment is poisoning; resentment diminishes and devours the self.
Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life. A man must look inward to find his own answers.
Poets often have a conscious awareness that they are struggling with the daimonic, and that the issue is their working something through from the depths which push the self to a new plane.
The academic mind, as we know, is sometimes capable of assuming an aggressive attitude. The official mind, on the contrary, is and has to be, expert in the art of self-defence.
Feelings of worth come when a woman follows the example of the Master. Her sense of infinite worth comes from her own Christlike yearning to reach out with love, as He does.
I believe in myself. I believe in my vision, my life, my talent, my art. More than anyone. No one can take that away from me.
And in Life's noisiest hour, There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee, The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy. You mould my Hopes, you fashion me within.
The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.
I shall gather myself into my self again, I shall take my scattered selves and make them one.
All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled. I can't blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody.
It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me.
To divest one's self of some prejudices would be like taking off the skin to feel the better.
Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love
When all the false self-identifications are thrown away, what remains is all-embracing love.
The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.
Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow.
Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.
Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.
Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.
Women particularly can dress modestly and in the process contribute to their own self respect and to the moral purity of men. In the end, most women get the type of man they dress for.
The reason that I'm an actor, or an artist, is ultimately because I'm trying to paint a self-portrait, and the most complete and beautiful self-portrait that you can.
The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished rediscovers himself.
Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.
It takes both spouses to say, "My self-centeredness is the main problem in my marriage" to have a great marriage.
See it better than it is or you have no future, without vision there is no possibility of improvement
It is very important that, no matter what happens, you keep your feeling of self worth and value.
I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
Look into a mirror, make eye contact with yourself, and say "I love me" as many times as possible during the day.
As William Penn put it: "Those people who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." Remember... that those tyrants are often self-imposed roadblocks of your lower self at work.
Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.
I always take a close look at those who lose themselves in self portraits. They are solitary souls, prone to introspection, who have really grappled with their existence.