Whenever we do something for someone else, we affirm that we are not simply in it for ourselves, that our self is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'm much more self-conscious clothed than unclothed. I'm a frustrated Page Three girl. I have no shame about my body. — Susannah Constantine Copy Share Image
Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The principle of fasting is taught in almost all major world religions as a means of developing a higher level of self-mastery… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“The ego is constantly comparing itself to others. It has us measuring our self-worth against the looks, wealth, and social status of… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
In the Catholic tradition, the idea of giving something up on a Friday - the act of self denial - has always… — Vincent Nichols Copy Share Image
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Neither this body am I, nor soul, Nor these fleeting images passing by, Nor concepts and thoughts, mental images, Nor yet sentiments… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
An awkward consequence of heightening experience when one is inexperienced, of self-transcendence when one has not much world to lose, is that… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
For Fanon, becoming actional is connected to his idea of a new humanism, which is explicitly critical of European humanism so intimately… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
You also know you’re surrendered when you don’t react to criticism and rush to defend yourself. Surrendered hearts show up best in… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of my life… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Never will we be able to understand our times if we naively 'think' of this system of self Government as the work… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
When you meet silent and inscrutable people, don't tell them what you are thinking. When you meet irritable and self-serving people, be… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
“All that comes to an end is a vishaya [subject of pleasure]. That which does not come to an end, is the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression… — Percy Cerutty Copy Share Image
There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person. — James Dickey Copy Share Image
We need to concentrate on what's happening on the pitch. It's self-pride when we're on the pitch. We don't need to worry… — Scott McTominay Copy Share Image
“My outsides are precise and unreliable. The illusion of self is increasingly purposeful. A sort of erasure. Inside of me, a flex.… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
“True humility comes when, in the, light of God, we have seen ourselves to be nothing, have consented to part with and… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
As far as inner action is concerned, we are only rarely truly self-determined persons, for the major part of our conscious mental… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“(U)derneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
The happiness of God-realization is self-sustained, eternally fresh and unfailing, boundless and indescribable. And it is for this happiness that the world… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Boxing has helped millions around the world as a trigger for self belief, identity and connecting. It is therapy for rage. — Nigel Benn Copy Share Image
We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Saddest of all are the women who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue. They made the… — Jeanette Copy Share Image
In putting everyone else down, I am raising myself up... and this will continue until my self-esteem rises. I have just sorted… — Jim Rowe Copy Share Image
“What one understands is darshan (vision) and to give that understanding to others (so that he also understands) it is Gnan (knowledge).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
There are self-styled "anarcho-capitalists" (not to be confused with anarchists of any persuasion), who want the state abolished as a regulator of… — Donald Rooum Copy Share Image
“It occurred to me then that you is everything you are in this life at every moment. And that includes loving somebody.… — James McBride Copy Share Image