The Self Quotes

When you know you are dying, self-deceptions fly from your bedside like embers off a bonfire.

I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing.

How could I have been anyone other than me?

You don't find happiness, you make happiness.

Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.

It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are finished. Mrs. Miracle

The Higher Self is whispering to you softly in the silence between your thoughts.

The Self is not in the realm of thought. The Self is in the gap between our thoughts. The cosmic psyche whispers to us softly in the gap between our thoughts.

When you contact the Higher Self, the source of power within, you tap into a reservoir of infinite power.

Pretty is a self-serving situation in which it's all about you. People who are pretty are superficial, but they are not beautiful. Beauty requires more depth.

Writing a novel proved to be the hardest, most self-analyzing task I had ever attempted, far worse than an autobiography: and its rewards were greater than I expected.

Peering succeeds because it leverages self-organization—a style of production that works more effectively than hierarchical management for certain tasks.

Strive to make proposed solutions as self-executing as possible. As the degree of discretion increases, so too does bureaucracy, delay, and expense.

The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it.

The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.

Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.

The universe is a self-organizing, intelligent, creative, trial-and-error learning, participatory, interactive, non-locally interconnected and evolving system.

Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--your old self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart

There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing.

The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues - self-restraint.

Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

I believe that ultimately the situation in Kosovo can only be resolved through self-determination.

Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty.

I've got to do something to make up for all those self-absorbed and selfish years when I just, you know, was taking drugs, sitting in my room, doing bad things, whatever.

I'll be a fool or a wiseman, my darling, you hold the key. Anyway you want me, that's how I will be.

We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.

Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.

Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation.

In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.

The Universe is responding to who you FEEL you are.

For me, working out is nothing to do with looks. It's to let it all out - the stress, the self-consciousness - you think less; it makes you more centred.

The Lord has warned and forewarned us against a day of great tribulation and given us counsel, through His Servants, on how we can be prepared for these difficult times. Have we heeded His counsel?

She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.

I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened.

Self-preservation is an important thing to me.

Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.

We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be being treated like that by our own selves.

Thus, when you wake up in the morning, called by God to be a self again, if you want to know who you are, watch your feet. Because where your feet take you, that is who you are.

In the Upanishads they talk about the path of the sun and the path of the moon. The path of the moon is rebirth. The path of the sun leads to self-knowledge, from which there is no return.

Nowhere has democracy ever worked well without a great measure of local self-government, providing a school of political training for the people at large as much as for their future leaders.

The self is a dance, constantly in motion.

Lack of self-worth is the fundamental source of all emotional pain. A feeling of insecurity, unworthiness and lack of valueis the core experience of powerlessness.

Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you. When you occupy it, step into it consciously, you live it.

When you are lonely, writing can keep you company. It is also a form of self-compensation, a way of making up for things—as opposed to making things up—that did not quite happen.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.

The self is no mystery, the mystery is / That there is something for us to stand on

Whenever there is a conflict between universal principles and self-interest, self-interest is likely to prevail.