Self Quotes · Page 101

The joy of a self-giving life Can neither be measured Nor be expounded.

— Sri Chinmoy

Sanctimony and self-regard are as American as smallpox blankets and supersize meals.

— Colson Whitehead

If you truly want to become a better you, it is imperative that you learn to feel good about yourself.

— Joel Osteen

I think it's increasingly hard to have deep self-knowledge without entering the darkness in some way.

— Sam Keen

Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“The One in whom, there is no trace of ego, is a 'Gnani Purush' (the enlightened One).”

— Dada Bhagwan

Babies and the old are permitted self-absorption. In between, it provokes resentment.

— Mason Cooley

It isn't hard to see how the lack of representation affects the self esteem of many women world wide.

— Philomena Kwao

I went from being married to living on my own in L.A., to having a new boyfriend and just being totally self-sufficient…

— Lindsey Vonn

“In this world, when no dualities affect one, when nothing affects him, and he attains the awareness of ‘I am absolute Supreme…

— Dada Bhagwan

Fear has made them sloppy. The world teeters at a precipe. All scared to take a step in case they put a…

— Joe Abercrombie

The sad truth is that among today's evangelicals it is not loving and esteeming God but self-love and self-esteem that are presented…

— Dave Hunt

There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self…

— Bernard Malamud

Of course, I am grateful for my strength. It makes me self-sufficient. When I bought a refrigerator, I carried it myself up…

— Aleksandr Karelin

“Sometimes, you get told enough you are what you aren’t, it gets in your head and you make it a self-fulfilling prophesy…

— Kristen Ashley

There are a lot of parts of who I am that no one in the public has ever known, but the older…

— Patricia Arquette

As you love your own body, so regard everyone as equal to your own body. When the Supreme Experience supervenes, everyone's service…

— Anandamayi Ma

I do interview senior candidates at the home office or many of our hotel or restaurant General Manager candidates. My two favorite…

— Chip Conley

“The Gnani Purush (the enlightened one) has natural and spontaneous forgiveness (sahaj kshama) even for those worthy of punishment; that forgiveness is…

— Dada Bhagwan

The fact that our message and my lyrics can have a positive impact on someone's life is really astounding. It definitely makes…

— Beau Bokan

“As long as anger-pride-deceit-greed (kashays – the ones that gives pain to soul) have not gone away, one has not attained vitraag’s…

— Dada Bhagwan

The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength. We wouldn't touch rock if we were perfectly self-controlled.…

— Royal Robbins

“The self that begins the spiritual journey is the self of our own creation, the self we thought ourselves to be. This…

— David G. Benner

“Byron: The luxuries of this place have made me soft.The metal point's gone from my pen, there's nothing left but the feather.…

— Tenesse Williams

Follow the three R's: Respect for self, respect for others and responsibility for all your actions.-

— Anonymous

There is only one source of authentic self-confidence: reason.

— Ayn Rand

I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I'm a pretty good guy.

— Marcus Brigstocke

Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

— Barry Bonds

Would your eight-year-old self be proud of you right now?

— Anonymous

You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense.

— Michael Moore

“What else is there besides puran (input; influx; charge; cause) and galan (out put; discharge; effect)?”

— Dada Bhagwan

The reality of the individualis an incoherent reality and must be expressed incoherently.

— Samuel Beckett

The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling.

— Norman Cousins

I have a strong sense of self, but that's not a negative thing.

— Ray LaMontagne

A mandala is the psychological expression of the totality of the self.

— Carl Jung

Don't judge your success by other peoples opinions. Have self belief.

— Nigel Godrich

What is needed is not the removal of the trouble but the conquest of self.

— Charles Spurgeon

Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.

— Gautama Buddha

Self-harm - the world will come at you with knives anyway. You do not need to beat them to it.

— Caitlin Moran

Through my handicaps, I have found my self, my work, my God.

— Helen Keller