Self Quotes · Page 102

For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery

— D. H. Lawrence

Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance.

— Noel Carroll

Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

— Moss Hart

The subject does not belong to the world; rather, it is a limit of the world

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self acceptance.

— Brené Brown

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.

— John Adams

“Only those with 'chit prasannta' (blissful state of chit) are allowed entry in Moksha, ultimate liberation.”

— Dada Bhagwan

When you rest in the weakness of your heart, your being moves and your self becomes quieted.

— John de Ruiter

But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is…

— Robert Sternberg

I know what it's like to turn the page of a magazine and not see anyone like you. It takes a lot,…

— Prabal Gurung

Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars

— Curtis LeMay

I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice…

— Vladimir Lenin

We realize--often quite suddenly--that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is…

— Adyashanti

A self that is very robust, that has many, many levels of organization, from simple to complex, and that functions as a…

— Antonio Damasio

I think it's very interesting that [doctors] privilege the self that is saying, "I don't want to die," but want to discount…

— Katy Butler

Seldom can the heart be lonely, If it seek a lonelier still; Self-forgetting, seeking only Emptier cups of love to fill.

— Anonymous

Those of us placed in a position of leadership must be prepared to grasp the nettle if we unite in doing so,…

— Obafemi Awolowo

This story ["The Depressed Person"] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It's about narcissism, which is a part of depression.…

— David Foster Wallace

The way to plan the family is natural family planning, not contraception...This (use of contraceptives) turns the attention to self and so…

— Mother Teresa

To Epictetus, all external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly…

— Epictetus

Note to self on waking. Lay off the beer on an empty stomach. This dream is even more screwed up than the…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I do think what the Tea Party also had was Obamacare and the unpopularity of that, at least at the time. And…

— Mark Shields

It's time to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and sow dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods. These laws try…

— Eric Holder

The struggle of the male to learn to listen to and respect his own intuitive, inner prompting is the greatest challenge of…

— Herb Goldberg

Work not of enthusiasm but of love, conscious of duty-which means self-denial.

— Salvador Bernal

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the…

— Ella Maillart

“Self-discovery is the key to knowing what to do with your life.”

— Sunday Adelaja

When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.

— Anonymous

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

— Marcus Aurelius

“When is one considered a vitarag (free of attachment)? It is when he has no fear of anything in this world.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?

— Ben Horowitz

Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone to tell you who you are.

— Beyonce Knowles

The pure heart is one that is entirely cut away from self. To be selfless is to be pure.

— Abdu'l-Bahá

You become the victim of the past, and your tormentor today is your self left over from yesterday.

— Deepak Chopra

At the end of the day, we all look in the mirror and tend to see our own self-perceived flaws.

— Michael Gracey

Never wait around for someone to discover and tell you your purpose in life, it'll take way too long.

— Anonymous

It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully.

— Mother Teresa

“Gandhi, "They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.”

— Anonymous

Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self.

— Maxwell Maltz

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

— Byron Katie