Self Quotes · Page 110

The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-sat-isfied man.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Until we recognize the SELF that exists apart from who we think we are - we cannot know the Ch'an ( ZEN ) MIND

— D.T. Suzuki

Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Dishonoring what we feel is an epidemic that has us self-medicating as a culture and trying to numb ourselves.

— Abiola Abrams

The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along.

— Sheri S. Tepper

To really evolve as awareness, be just like your own being in a self like yours and on a planet like this…

— John de Ruiter

The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.

— Peter Watts

Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.

— Mark Haddon

All of us must come to an honest, open self-examination, an awareness within as to who and what we want to be.

— M. Russell Ballard

Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.

— Morarji Desai

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

— Abbi Glines

If I'd have said to my 10-year-old self that I would be a Disney prince, I think he probably would've laughed.

— Harris Dickinson

The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.

— Adrienne Rich

You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

— Samuel Ullman

No matter what the shrinks, or the pundits, or the self-help books tell you, when it comes to love, it's luck.

— Woody Allen

Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.

— James Hunter

I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.

— Amy Lee

Don't mistake someones unique individuality as weakness or weirdness, if you do your likely to be one of those

— Edward Shaylitsa

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

— Karl Lagerfeld

According to the law that governs the universe,all sufferings are your labor of love to unveil your real self.

— Meher Baba

No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.

— Anne Lamott

We may have failed to teach our children right from wrong, but we've done a great job of teaching self-esteem!

— Roy Moore

Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.

— Tyra Banks

Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.

— Muhammad Iqbal

Just trying to do something - just being there, showing up - is how we get braver. Self-esteem is about doing.

— Joy Browne

When you really love, that makes you feel unsure in your self, even though it is love that reaches your heart.

— John de Ruiter

Real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.

— Anwar Sadat

To double your net worth, double your self-worth. Because you will never exceed the height of your self-image.

— Robin Sharma

You know a man can play the part of a saint just so long for a day comes when his true, his…

— Sharon Jones

The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Ultimately all idolatry is worship of the self projected and objectified: all idolization is self-idolization.

— Will Herberg

My heart needs only one thing. It needs to be guided Along the age-old path Of life-blossoming self-awareness.

— Sri Chinmoy

Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

“You don't feel like your best self when you fall apart, but you have to fall apart to become your best self.”

— Richie Norton

The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The more government dependents, the more likely that democracy will become a conspiracy against self-reliance.

— James Bovard

I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light.

— Anonymous

A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance....

— Jack Kornfield

Too much self-regard has never struck me as dignified: trying to twist over my shoulder to view my own behind.

— Marge Piercy

Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people.

— Brian Tracy