Self Quotes · Page 230

The Samsara is the movement of life. And you, an individual self, a form, a moment on a wave, are bound.

— Frederick Lenz

The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs.

— William Styron

I am old enough to know better - but young enough to still do it anyway!

— Priyanka

“You need realization of the Self and awareness of the Self in order to go to moksha (ultimate liberation).”

— Dada Bhagwan

Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction.

— Greg Bear

God is the highest place within each and every one of us. It's our divine self.

— Wayne Dyer

I wear more eyeliner on TV, but otherwise, I pretty much look like my real life self.

— Kasie Hunt

I keep in mind whenever my own bestfriend has been self conscious as well as quiet, I made a monster.

— Anonymous

“The Knowledge (Gnan) is itself the absolute Self (Parmatma). Gnan (Knowledge) never becomes agnan (ignorance), but the applied awareness changes and that…

— Dada Bhagwan

Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged…

— Jimmy Buffett

Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our…

— Carlos Castaneda

Keep from prying into other people's affairs, for such prying gives occasion for slander, judgment, and other grievous sins. Why do you…

— Tikhon of Zadonsk

The brain alone is intricate beyond mapping, powerful beyond imitation, rich in diversity, self-protecting, and self-renewing. The secret is that it is…

— Fred Brooks

I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with…

— Sebastian Thrun

For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really…

— Rob Bell

Self-esteem does not come from surrounding yourself with people and things that seem to increase your value. Real self-esteem is an integration…

— Anna Deavere Smith

So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you…

— Eckhart Tolle

We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits…

— Anonymous

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive…

— Robert Henri

How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want…

— Rebecca Solnit

Therefore the good man ought to be a lover of self, since he will then both benefit himself by acting nobly and…

— Aristotle

Guilt is the sum total of: All the negative feelings we have ever had about ourselves! Any form of self-hatred, self-rejection, feelings…

— Kenneth Wapnick

“Even if you run in ‘this’ racecourse for endless lives, you will get cheated in the end; such is this world! Everything…

— Dada Bhagwan

It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which…

— Arthur Helps

“Kill your­self or don’t kill your­self, but stop tor­tur­ing me. I’m try­ing to move on with my life.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood.

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Being yourself doesn’t attract women... being your most attractive self, does.

— Zan Perrion

The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.

— John Piper

I think this is what college is all about: self-examination and dealing with those questions of "Who am I?"

— Wentworth Miller

The more that you bypass of your own mechanisms, the more in your self that will come apart.

— John de Ruiter

When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense.

— Frank Herbert

If I want to be great, I have to win the victory over myself...self-d iscipline.

— Harry S. Truman

To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.

— George Sand

Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you.

— Pablo Neruda

I have a T-shirt that says, Plays Well With Self. It suits me (or at least the top half).

— Rock Cowles

I've always been self-motivated, but I can't take a ton of credit for any success I've had.

— Peter Billingsley

I was lucky I was raised by parents who gave me a lot of sense of self and a lot of confidence…

— Sprague Grayden

My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.

— Muhammad Ali

“..Imam Ali [A].. 'However knows himself (his soul or spirit) knows [or has known] his Lord”

— DR MUHAMMAD ALI SHOMALI

Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest.

— Hillary Clinton