The Self Quotes

This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.

Self-made men often worship their creator.

Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realizatio n.

I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.

The Self then functions as a union of opposites and thus constitutes the most immediate experience of the Divine which it is psychologically possible to imagine

It's sometimes easier to reject strong evidence than to admit that we've been wrong, this is information about ourselves worth having.

The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.

Unfortunatley, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains my self.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.

The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for 
the existence of God.

Paddy Ashdown is the only party leader who's a trained killer. Although, to be fair, Mrs Thatcher was self taught.

If you think that you are where you are just because you worked hard, it is easy to become self-righteous and make classist moral judgments about others.

It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.

In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves.

Even the most independent and spirited young women can become humorless, self-absorbed, and fearful. It's a terrible preparation for life.

Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary.

Kindness is something that I feel is leaving us a little bit - people are getting more self-involved.

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean empathy, hedonism, a libertarianism.

We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.

Scientists are human-they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.

Everything is interconnected. My interest is linked to everyone else's. Our survival and future are linked. Therefore the destruction of your so-called enemy is actually the destruction of your self.

In short, we lose the freshness and spontaneity of true conversation. These are areas in which everyone interested in self-improvement will seek to improve.

It's important to distinguish the soul from the spirit, or will, because the will or the heart or the spirit is the executive center of the self.

Reality TV is the perfect antidote to people who don't have enough self-centered douchebags in their life.

Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.

Acknowledging and accepting whatever stuff you may have to let go comes easier when you love yourself.

The Republicans have a high Beady-Eyed Self-Righteous Scary Borderline Loon Quotient, as evidenced by Phyllis Schlafly, Pat Robertson, the entire state of Utah, etc.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

...just being ordinary in and of itself is and expression of divinity; the truth of one's real self can be discovered through the pathway of everyday life.

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving

Painting is a means of saying something about one's self in a beautiful or powerful way that people would like to see, but not hear.

BECAUSE SELF IS NO LONGER OUR GOD, SAFETY IS NO LONGER OUR CONCERN.

A man is sometimes lost in a dust of his own raising.

Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.

Replace your self-defeating thoughts with self-supporting thoughts.

By becoming self-aware, you gain ownership of reality; in becoming real, you become the master of both inner and outer life.

The use of love is to heal. When it flows without effort from the depth of the Self, love creates health.

Only intimacy with the self will bring about true healing.

Don't workout because you think you 'need' to, do it because your body deserves love, respect and healthy attention.

Individuals with a good self esteem can accept or reject the opinions of others, but never depend on them for their sense of worthiness.

Self-control is the only possible road to character development

Don't be afraid of your own strength.

If Congress does its job in this regard, the residents of Puerto Rico will be empowered to act in their own self-interest and express their future political status aspirations accordingly.

What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience.

To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.

Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taught—prayer, fasting and self-mutilation.