The Self Quotes

All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.

And the over-all fact that you are a frail vessel full of errors.

Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.

Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Notice what you notice. Observe what's vivid. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. And remember the future.

Self-sabotage is when we say we want something and then go about making sure it doesn't happen.

Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful, but learn to love what you have.

Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.

If you fail to gain absolute self-control, you have failed in the greatest victory of life.

It would be gross understatement to say that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is not a model of clarity. It is in many important respects a model of ambiguity or indeed even self-contradiction.

Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns.

Happiness is self-connectedness.

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

Self-sabotage is the smartest thing you can do if you're sabotaging a self that is not really you.

Some people's unwillingness to think for themselves represents accurate self-evaluation.

God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the "self-made men", who take the credit.

I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.

Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched".

You know what you are actually in love with? Integrity. The impossible. The clean, consistent, reasonable, self-faithful, the all-of-one-style, like a work of art.

The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.

Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self-realization.

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper.

The Russians are fighting for us, for the world, and for their self.

Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don't forget them when they leave.

Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself.

When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth.

I'm not saying my mother-in-law is fat - because she is of reasonable size, and I care about her and her self-image.

I don't want to sound like a self-help book, but it really has been transformative for me to take a look at my relationships in a new way and see my part in them. Everybody's going through that.

So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most important— self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the eyes.

Every experience is a positive experience if I view it as an opportunity for growth and self-mastery.

Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you.

For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being.

Your real, new self (which is Christ's and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him.

The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ.

I read a quote the other day that said comparison is a brutal assault upon one's self. And what happens is that you're saying that you're not good enough.

High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society.

That love at first sight should happen to me, was Life's most delicious revenge on a self-opinionated fool.

We rigidify our self-image to portray a certain identity to the world, which is one of the key impediments to authenticity.

The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

The worst deluded are the self-deluded.

I met a lot of young girls modelling and they were like, 'Oh, I'm running around town and people are taking my picture', while I was saving receipts and learning how to be self-employed.

I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.

You must have an alibi to show why you lost. If you haven't one, you must fake one. You self confidence must be maintained.

Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day," Raquel said firmly. "And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies.

Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed.

In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.

While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.

If you become more concerned for the welfare of others, you will experience a sense of calm, inner-strength, and self confidence.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.