Self Quotes · Page 136

Writing is not about self-expression; it is about putting words on paper.

— Gordon Lish

Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.

— Daniel Defoe

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

— Abbi Glines

'I Am' is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.

— Ramana Maharshi

Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

— Plotinus

Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Every player has their doubts in their self, but they need support.

— Dimitar Berbatov

When you go on an extreme diet, your body's self-preservation mechanism responds by burning calories as slowly as possible. Of course, that…

— Tony Robbins

One of the greatest tazkiya (purification) of the nafs (self) is to part with your money and to give it to people…

— Junaid Jamshed

“Don't pretend to be someone else when you are not and Just be you are self and always be true about you…

— Bernadette Elias

Go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization... Search within... for honest self- expression.

— Bruce Lee

One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems...wars, nations, destructions...to refuse to be a part of them,…

— Richard Bach

Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the…

— William Kennedy

Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance…

— Nick Hornby

Sense for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and…

— Anonymous

There is a fundamental moral difference between a man who sees his self-interest in production and a man who sees it in…

— Ayn Rand

“Self-Empowerment is free to anyone who chooses to use it. It comes from within and nowhere else. You cannot buy it, borrow…

— Gary Hopkins

Can you imagine if you really let it in that you are not a problem to be solved in any way? Imagine…

— Adyashanti

“There should not be anything lacking in your Nischay. However, if anything remains lacking in your vyavahaar (worldly interaction), then that is…

— Dada Bhagwan

Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and…

— Carl Jung

One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is…

— Aldous Huxley

“To have neither the slightest attachment (raag) towards the one who is most obliging nor have the slightest abhorrence (dwesh) towards the…

— Dada Bhagwan

A writer with her work needs to be like a dog with a bone all the time. She needs to know where…

— Dani Shapiro

Blossom time has come and many ancient seekers are today getting their Self Realization.

— Nirmala Srivastava

Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

— Anonymous

All you ever think about it yourself! The reason you're depressed is because you're so self obsessed.

— Anonymous

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I've done a lot of bad things in the past, and that troubles me. It is often before I could say I…

— Malcolm Morley

Humility and self-restraint is the True Objective of Kenpo

— Ed Parker

Only the ego resists egos. The spirit may notice egos, but sees beyond them and does not engage with them.

— Alan Cohen

Relax man we live to be forgotten, this day we live to later prove we existed.

— Edward Shaylitsa

All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.

— Epicurus

I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.

— Booker T. Washington

There is no self. There is nobody home. No forwarding address, no zip code. Address unknown.

— Frederick Lenz

Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If you're not happy about how you look, you have to question how much self-love you have.

— Tyrese Gibson

God Himself begins to live in me not only as my Creator but as my other and true self.

— Thomas Merton

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.

— Herbert Spencer