Self Quotes · Page 188

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

— Alan Watts

I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.

— Jeannette Walls

There is no such thing as an evil genius, as evil in it's self is stupidity.

— David Farland

That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.

— Albert Camus

How can we embrace rest and play if we've tied our self-worth to what we produce?

— Brené Brown

I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!

— Sam Palladio

My default is self-destruction, and anything on top of that is a bloody lot of work.

— Gillian Anderson

I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter; Oh no! the miserablest day we live There's many a better thing…

— Anonymous

From my fathers point of view, without a thought for self, a true patriot stands up against the stones of condemnation and…

— Thomas Steinbeck

The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed.

— Mark Epstein

The truth is that if we are consumed with finding ways to help others, there will be little room left in our…

— David S. Baxter

A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is my experience that if a person practices self discovery with intent, they will be successful. Success is an outer sign…

— Frederick Lenz

A clear rule for self-control handed down by the Fathers is this: stop eating while still hungry and do not continue until…

— John Cassian

“What are dualities? They are what creates the worldly life [sansaar]. And if one attains Liberation [moksha], he will be beyond dualities!”

— Dada Bhagwan

The Bhagavad Gita is not as nice a book as some Americans think…Throughout the Mahabharata ... Krishna goads human beings into all…

— Wendy Doniger

“Where some people have a self, most people have a void, because they are too busy in wasting their vital creative energy…

— Bruce Lee

If you have great people around you, they will take you higher than your dream will. Leaders are never self-made. Those closest…

— John C. Maxwell

When I look in the mirror, I am slightly reminded of self-portraits by Durer and by Rembrandt, because they both show a…

— Robert Winston

I think we probably will end up in America because he would be giving up much more to come and live here.…

— Emily Mortimer

I am not as self-abusive in the manner of walking off stage bleeding. But as far as attitude, I feel that Twiggy…

— Marilyn Manson

As long as we are a single-planet species, we are vulnerable to extinction by a planetwide catastrophe, natural or self-induced. Once we…

— David Grinspoon

I am more afraid that this people have so much confidence in their leaders that they will not inquire for themselves of…

— Brigham Young

"Life Diamond". . . Job. Family. Society. Sense of Self...

— Wayne Dyer

Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was "broken.

— Saul Bellow

In the practice of exchanging self & other, paradoxes abound.

— Robert Thurman

“Anger gets you into trouble, ego keeps you in trouble.”

— Amit Kalantri

A man is first reverent about himself, and self-respect is the first stage in reverence for all things.

— Otto Weininger

The victory's found in truth, like innocence found in youth Self defeat is your own dispute

— Damian Marley

You can live in a house, but your real home is inside you.

— Leonard Jacobson

If one's sense of self is obtained through the eyes of another it is always subject to being lost.

— Brenda Shoshanna

Self-empathy in NVC means checking in with your own feelings and needs.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

— Wayne Dyer

“I’ is your own Self, only this much is to be ‘realized’!”

— Dada Bhagwan

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

— Gerald Jampolsky

The essence of successful discipline is not technique; rather, it is self-confidence.

— John Rosemond

Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself.

— George Eliot

Sometimes your higher self will guide you to make mistakes so you can learn lessons.

— Gabrielle Bernstein

The recurring theme which predisposes people to depression is rejection and lack of self-esteem.

— Richard Winters