Self Quotes · Page 194

The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.

— Ramana Maharshi

“Gnan (Knowledge) is not attained first; first the ego departs.”

— Dada Bhagwan

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

— Sigmund Freud

Anything you can do that's self-destructive in Vegas, whatever that is, I do it.

— Jim Norton

“No one determines your truth but you. You can’t paint your own self-portrait with someone else’s hand.”

— Scott Stabile

One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.

— Ramana Maharshi

“He who does not get involved in good deeds and bad deeds is an enlightened one (Gnani).”

— Dada Bhagwan

“. Self-reliance means you're in control. Don't ever think you need a man for happiness. Besides,”

— Bella Forrest

What the podcast novelists do isnt all that different from what self-publishers do. We put the books out in different formats, but…

— Jeremy Robinson

The impact of the ACA on larger businesses - especially those that self-insure - is far less than what they would experience…

— John E. McDonough

Whatever man loves, that is his god. For he carries it in his heart; he goes about with it night and day;…

— Martin Luther

Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among…

— Honore de Balzac

Our Jewish friends are no more responsible for the actions of Israel or the Netanyahu government than our Muslim friends are for…

— Jeremy Corbyn

A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.

— R. Kent Hughes

If you can do it, it ain't braggin'... it's a matter of self-confidence. I got where I did because I wasn't no…

— Dizzy Dean

To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, knowledge without order and seeking it without discipline…

— Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

My new 9mm didn’t fit my hand as well as my old one, but it was rapidly becoming a familiar weight. At…

— Karen Chance

In writing you work toward a result you won't see for years, and can't be sure you'll ever see. It takes stamina…

— Tobias Wolff

“Thinking, he walked ever more slowly and asked himself, What is it now that you were hoping to learn from doctrines and…

— Hermann Hesse

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Life is a valuable and unique opportunity to discover who you are. But it seems as soon as you near answering that…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

One really ought to be afraid of self-torture. But it tempted me. It begged. The dark place that my mind was fast…

— Marya Hornbacher

“You are a confabulatory creature by nature. You are always explaining to yourself the motivations for your actions and the causes to…

— David McRaney

Whoever's reading this, if anyone is reading it: does it matter that our old selves are lost to us as surely as…

— Joyce Carol Oates

You have now reached infatuation’s final destination—the complete and merciless devaluation of self.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

What I've been doing over the course of my career - everybody's been seeing me be my best self.

— Le'Veon Bell

The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.

— E. B. White

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

— Ron Paul

I'm very fortunate. I'm not much of a self-promoter or anything.

— Paul Beatty

I don't think you're human unless you go through some [self-destructi on].

— Christopher Abbott

How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?

— Simone Weil

I do a lot of laughing at my own self in life, so I think I come at things with a pretty…

— Anonymous

I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious.

— Ellen Goodman

Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.

— Stephen Covey

Great self esteem comes from inside and feels hot and wonderful.

— Emme

We never get to love by hate, least of all by self-hatred.

— Basil W. Maturin

A just cause should need no interpretation yet flounders when confronted by self- interest and corruption.

— Peter Dunne

Music study presents a natural, here-and-now route to selfknowledge and self-integration.

— William Westney

It is your action & behaviour which creates beauty of your inner self.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

“If one wants to go to moksha, he will indeed have to become (completely) free from sex [nirvishayi].”

— Dada Bhagwan