Self Quotes · Page 130

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

— Thomas a Kempis

The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.

— Carl Jung

The only clear view is from atop the mountain of your dead selves.

— Peter J. Carroll

There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.

— Anonymous

“Satsang (association with the Self) means to understand, 'What this world is and what it is not.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“Self-trust firms up your inner territory and grounds you with solid premises for believing in who you are.”

— Laurie Nadel

What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Dont change because somebody but change because your own self”

— kei hetroida

“Worldly life means [state of continuous] agitation and uneasiness. What makes one like it, it is a wonder in itself!”

— Dada Bhagwan

I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of…

— Brian Greene

Self-rule means that China must stop its intensive effort to colonize Tibet with Chinese settlers and must allow Tibetans to hold responsible…

— Dalai Lama

When you step further into the story you came to live, not only does the mythic territory open, but the deep self…

— Michael Meade

Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Someone else's vision will never be as good as your own vision of your self. Live and die with it 'cause in…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

“Where there is no expectation of not even a single thing, there arises the (independent) bliss (that which does not depend upon…

— Dada Bhagwan

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence,…

— Thomas Merton

Wherever there is light, there is shadow; wherever there is length, there is shortness; wherever there is white, there is black. Just…

— Gautama Buddha

There's great sadness and life doesn't work out like you would want, on a lot of levels, but there's no need to…

— Mike Mills

I've spent a lot of time self-reflecting. Especially as an actor, you have to know yourself really well in order to do…

— Teddy Sears

The self...can split off from itself without being less. You are not a mini self, an adjunct to some super-being, never to…

— Jane Roberts

Satan represents indulgence, instead of abstinence! Satan represents vital existence, instead of spiritual pipe dreams! Satan represents undefiled wisdom, instead of hypocritical…

— Anton Szandor LaVey

Number one, we need to get in shape, number two we need to shoot, number three, we need to learn self-defense, and…

— Matt Shea

True art and true science possess two unmistakable marks: the first, an inward mark, which is this, that the servitor of art…

— Leo Tolstoy

"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." This sentence alone would save mankind if all books and prophets…

— Swami Vivekananda

To me, clothing is a form of self-expression - there are hints about who you are in what you wear.

— Anonymous

One is given to self-dramatization from time to time. I intend to live forever.

— Leonard Cohen

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Sometimes we know who we want to be and what we want to do long... long before we know how to get…

— Patti Callahan Henry

The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge

— Laozi

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

— Jasper Fforde

Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.

— David Levithan

To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I really hate being self-conscious—and being conscious of being self-conscious

— Natalie Portman

Self-discipline is a rigorous process at best; too many of us want it to be effortless and painless.

— Thomas S. Monson

Beauty means expression and being your most authentic self.

— Paloma Elsesser

Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

— Elbert Hubbard

Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.

— Bertrand Russell

Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

— Charles Caleb Colton

For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.

— Robert Genn

The relationship with yourself is the most important relationship you’ll ever have.

— Judith Orloff