Self Quotes · Page 112

Consciousness, like a complex system of software, has thousands of levels of nested, self-accessing subroutines

— Frederick Lenz

“Subject and object are not separate—so-called objective reality is projected by our subjective Consciousness.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

“We are whiplashed between an arrogant overestimation of ourselves and a servile underestimation of ourselves.”

— Parker Palmer

Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.

— David Mitchell

Our founders did not write that We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all US Persons are created equal.

— Edward Snowden

Philip Martin has written a wise, compassionate, and nurturing guide through the self-oppression of depression.

— Harold H. Bloomfield

There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides.

— Robert Breault

You cannot be with someone just because you dont want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.à

— Melissa De La Cruz

Whatever is associated with the mind is bound to change. The truth is that which is changeless. It is the Self.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Because when the Creator of matter, tell you you matter, then you have a purpose and then you have self-esteem.

— Brad Stine

I've never been diagnosed with anything, I've self diagnosed myself with multiple personality disorder and DID.

— Trisha Paytas

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

— Ramana Maharshi

I think people who come from abuse and/or people who have mental illnesses, have terrible self-esteem problems.

— Sinead O'Connor

The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.

— Aimee Mullins

The dominant type of humor in the '60s was essentially defensive and self-deprecating, using humor as a shield.

— P. J. O'Rourke

National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement.

— Richard Rorty

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

— Joseph Jacobs

With this kind of camera-phone madness we have got, moments are diluted into self-contained edited experiences.

— Doc Brown

A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.

— Erica Jong

They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.

— Marianne Moore

All that one gives to others one gives to one's self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?

— Ramana Maharshi

Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.

— Anne Carson

Since age twelve, I've felt like I'm someone else,'cause I hung my original self from the top bunk with a belt.

— Eminem

I can only live for one person at a time, the Lord, Me, Myself, and I, so stop trying to lock me…

— Linda Bell

You tend to understand yourself a little better after each role you play. There’s somewhat of a self-discovery.

— Shahid Kapoor

Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else.

— Alan Dershowitz

I was so self -conscious, every time football players went into a huddle, I thought they were talking about me.

— Jackie Mason

I seek advice from my wife, who has been with me for 20 years and knows me better than I even know…

— Azran Osman Rani

One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Self-defense is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself.

— William Barclay

And in self-giving we become really happy. Real humility is the expansion of our consciousness and our service.

— Sri Chinmoy

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

— Laura Schlessinger

Be gentle and forgiving with yourself, abandon any and all shame, and refuse to engage in any self-repudiation.

— Wayne Dyer

Seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless.

— Khalil Gibran

“A real friend is one who helps us to think our best thoughts, do our noblest deeds, and be our finest selves.”

— Elizabeth George

There are too many books. The books are terrible. And this is because you have been taught to have self-esteem.

— Fran Lebowitz

Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us.

— Haim Ginott

To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence.

— Jacques Barzun

A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.

— Emile M. Cioran