Self Quotes · Page 111

Fame of self: Which matters more? Self or wealth: Which is more precious? Gain or loss: Which is more painful?

— Laozi

Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and…

— Ramana Maharshi

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

— Anonymous

The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.

— Max Muller

When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.

— Ajahn Chah

What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.

— Woodrow Wilson

His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.

— Margaret Atwood

Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realizatio n.

— Byron Katie

When I was an athlete I never listened to music because I was constantly so engaged with my own self and body.

— Denise Lewis

Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.

— Dora Russell

Twas the night before Thanksgiving. All the food's in the oven. And I'm in the bedroom performin' self lovin'.

— Craig Ferguson

“Silence embeds thoughts better than speeches. If you are afraid of silence, you are afraid of your thoughts.”

— Rossana Condoleo

I think that best way to show what you are is to keep it for yourself. You're not what the show will…

— George Zafiris

Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.

— James Surowiecki

To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.

— Gregory Orr

The lower your self-esteem, the more apt you are to believe that someone else holds the key to your happiness.

— Helen Hemphill

Remember that nothing is so damaging to self-esteem as waiting for a telephone or door-bell that doesn't ring.

— Marjorie Hillis

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

— Dada Bhagwan

Dare to be what your best self knows you ought to be; dare to be a bigger human being than you have…

— Norman Vincent Peale

In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.

— Starhawk

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

— Joseph Campbell

A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.

— Eric Hoffer

Most of us don't live our lives with one, integrated self that meets the world, we're a whole bunch of selves.

— Christopher Moore

If you look at the people in Hollywood who are heavy partiers, they're selfish, self-centered and egotistical.

— Danny Trejo

“Your life experience is a moving picture, of which you are writer, director, performer, producer and critic.”

— T.F. Hodge

Here I stand and make Both myth and reality in my own way And live the violence of my dream and of…

— Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

Few people can fail to generate a self-healing process, when they become genuinely involved in healing others.

— Theodore Isaac Rubin

Self-care means accepting some risk, and accepting much responsibility. It is not for all people or all cases.

— Andrew Saul

Overacting is a self-indulgence, while underacting comes either through a lack of talent or a lack of courage.

— Gregory Peck

Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross.

— Hugh Kingsmill

“I figure the more people think I'm just mildly weird, the less likely they are to know how weird I really am.”

— Melanie Hooyenga

Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.

— L.E. Modesitt Jr

Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.

— Marianne Williamson

Self-awareness moves us beyond the old, well-worn pathways in the brain that support fixed, unconscious habits.

— Deepak Chopra

While sincerity is to carry the weight of knowledge in the self, it is also to be the lightness of being clean.

— John de Ruiter

I didn't want to sit around and wait for someone to discover me, so I created my own self through the Internet.

— Jeffree Star

By removing that which is petty and self-seeking, we bring forth all that is glorious and mindful of the whole.

— Eknath Easwaran

The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.

— Leo Tolstoy

“Your relationship to yourself is and always will be directly reflected in all your relationships with others.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

We were not unmindful of the difficulties involved. So we decided to go through a process of self-purification.

— Martin Luther King, Jr