Self Quotes · Page 210

Keeping your artistic self as creative as possible is a balancing act.

— Karrin Allyson

“An apology given just to appease one's conscience is self-serving and better left unspoken!”

— Evinda Lepins

“The only person that believes the absolute in you is your own real self...”

— Saurabh Dudeja

To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding.

— Richard Paul Evans

For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state,

— Joseph Campbell

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

— John Updike

Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If you strive to find your Self by using your mind, you will strive and strive in vain, because the mind cannot…

— Sathya Sai Baba

As we grow up, we're constantly defining ourselves. In my case: Caucasian, male, born in Iowa, live in Boston, Zen Buddhist, good…

— Robert J. Waldinger

The thing that I think was very brave of my younger self was that he decided he would be an idiot. Just…

— Salman Rushdie

One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.

— V. S. Pritchett

“You can use your intelligence to fuel chronic anxiety and self-criticism, or you can use it to understand yourself”

— Vironika Tugaleva

Human beings are not on earth to be citizens, or taxpayers, or socially engineered pawns of other human beings; rather they are…

— Stephan A. Hoeller

Jazz is a music that really allows a person to express his deepest self, his most personal self - Africa being the…

— Harold Land

Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.

— Eli Roth

I feel like the demo or the audience for 'The Bachelor' is not used to seeing anything new, so they'll really kind…

— Gabby Windey

For instance, I may bring a certain feminist perspective to my songwriting, because that's how I see life. I'm interested in art,…

— Laura Nyro

This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love…

— Timothy Keller

Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty…

— Michael Josephson

...Conservatives have excellent credentials to speak about human rights. By our efforts, and with precious little help from self-styled liberals, we were…

— Margaret Thatcher

Intuition is a powerful tool that can heal the painful split we all feel between our earthly, mundane selves and our divine,…

— Penney Peirce

The key to teaching anything is to remember what it was like not to understand that thing. That's a very hard thing…

— David Goodstein

“Self-love is an act of holy disruption. To love yourself in a world that profits directly from your self-loathing is the ultimate…

— Jeanette LeBlanc

Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.

— Henry Ward Beecher

'I Am' is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.

— Ramana Maharshi

Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

— Plotinus

Luckily, I's learned at an early age that self-preservation was the only way to survive with your soul intact.

— Abbi Glines

Writing is not about self-expression; it is about putting words on paper.

— Gordon Lish

Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.

— Daniel Defoe

I've done a lot of bad things in the past, and that troubles me. It is often before I could say I…

— Malcolm Morley

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

— Anonymous

All you ever think about it yourself! The reason you're depressed is because you're so self obsessed.

— Anonymous

Blossom time has come and many ancient seekers are today getting their Self Realization.

— Nirmala Srivastava

Every player has their doubts in their self, but they need support.

— Dimitar Berbatov

Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is no self. There is nobody home. No forwarding address, no zip code. Address unknown.

— Frederick Lenz

Relax man we live to be forgotten, this day we live to later prove we existed.

— Edward Shaylitsa

All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.

— Epicurus