Self Quotes · Page 215

Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself.

— Shunryu Suzuki

There is no separation between mind and body... Self and other co-arise and fall away all the time.

— Deepak Chopra

There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.

— Ouida

Internet sexuality shows that we're becoming more and more self-involved. I'm talking about self-sex.

— Volkmar Sigusch

Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.

— Josh Billings

If you don't love your self, who will then? You need to love yourself first in order others can love you too ;)

— Mia

Self-approval and self-acceptance in the now are the main keys to positive changes in every area of our lives.

— Anonymous

The "passion for incredulity" can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe.

— Colin Wilson

“We need to think of the self as a continuum, a steady story over time. The mind is always searching for similarities,…

— Siri Hustvedt

Being humble does not mean being weak, reticent, or self-effacing. It means recognizing principle and putting it ahead of self. It means…

— Stephen Covey

According to this philosophy, each man consists of three parts - the body, the internal organ or the mind, and behind that,…

— Swami Vivekananda

I saw a sign at a gas station. It said 'help wanted'. There was another sign below it that said 'self service'.…

— Steven Wright

I've never been a conceited person or cocky, never felt boastful, but I always had a sense of self-worth; I always had…

— Will Ferrell

“What is the sign that one has attained the Soul; the Self? It is when one knows how to take a ‘picture’…

— Dada Bhagwan

Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a bookstore is…

— Lewis Buzbee

Your superhuman power was to be able not to feel. Is it there inside everybody, this self that comes out while you…

— Heather O'Neill

The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense, to be emotionally sincere, to be…

— Karen Horney

I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was…

— Barack Obama

What is the purpose for which Masonry exists? Its ultimate purpose is the perfection of humanity. Mankind it self is still in…

— Albert Pike

A freedom or pleasure that rests on someone else's slavery or misery cannot finally satisfy the self because it is a limitation…

— Hakim Bey

All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable…

— Philip Roth

If you want to create something that's worth doing you have to self-edit from the get-go. You really must be careful and…

— John Dyer Baizley

Mary Ocher gives me the chills, she frightens me with her feral soul. Her sound is of a true outsider artist, immaculately…

— Karen O

I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as…

— Amy Chua

It changed my whole outlook. I lost a decade to self-pity, and the next thing I knew I was turning 40.

— Chris Hardwick

It is about that self-belief, that self-drive, that has got me to where I am now.

— Harry Kane

Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being…

— Simone Weil

Don't you love nobody better'n you do yo'self. Do, you'll be dying befo' yo' time is out.

— Zora Neale Hurston

I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying.

— James Galway

We need to conceive of ourselves as "agents" impelled by self-generated intentions.

— Jerome Bruner

“There is a linking chain in the form of kashay (anger-pride-deceit-greed) between the Self and the non-Self.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Open your hidden eyes and see. Come, return to the root of the root ¦ of your Self!

— Ritu Ghatourey

“I am a self-taught entrepreneur. That’s the best kind there is, trust me.”

— Aravind Adiga

Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.

— Ramana Maharshi

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.

— William Law

Be Gentle with yourself... your doing the best that you can...

— Anonymous

Gratitude is a dialysis of sorts... it flushes the self-pity out of our systems.

— Max Lucado

Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.

— Margery Allingham

Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.

— B. H. Liddell Hart

Often a healing takes place in ourselves as we pray for the healing of others.

— Michael E. DeBakey