Self Quotes · Page 140

This is not the case. There is nothing that is not the Self. The Self does not have to be realized.

— Frederick Lenz

It's very hard to be good. It is self-destructive thinking to think that there is too much good.

— Henry Blodget

“All hatred is self-hatred, just as all healing is self-healing.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

When you express true self, you create a unique flow to your being.

— Heritier Ndele Tremaris Campbell

“I garner what remains of my self-control and tell myself the truth: Not mine, not ever.”

— Tarryn Fisher

What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Leave your limiting-self just like a snake shedding its skin so that you can go beyond your own frontiers!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I didn't learn for years that you generally find your Self after you quit looking for it.

— Peg Bracken

American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence…

— John Updike

Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

You want to be free as the ego, but you need to be free FROM the ego. To be free from it…

— Mooji

We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving…

— Frederick Lenz

“One who does not join in with the unfolding karmic effects (karma oodai) is a Gnani (Self-realized), and an agnani (non-Self-realized) cannot…

— Dada Bhagwan

Knowing when someone's the real deal or not, but still with putting your guard up and self-protecting, you've got to stay open.…

— Eva Mendes

Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it…

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

“Self-esteem can be defined as the state that exists when you are not arbitrarily haranguing and abusing yourself but choose to fight…

— David D. Burns

There are many paths through the Ring of Life. They are a constant movement toward self-fulfillment through growth of your mind, expansion…

— Frosty Wooldridge

My work has been about making a record of my life that no one can revise. I photograph myself in times of…

— Nan Goldin

Trials should not surprise us, or cause us to doubt God's faithfulness. Rather, we should actually be glad for them. God sends…

— Edmund Clowney

...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness…

— Chogyam Trungpa

Ere you lie down to sleep in the night, sit still awhile, and nurse again to life your gentler self. Forget the…

— Max Ehrmann

“To be yourself is in many ways, is to be inconvenient to others. Only placaters and appeasers get along with other people…

— Stefan Molyneux

Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which…

— Ernest Mandel

“The Rule really is: be kind to yourself when you do muck things up. Be forgiving and accept that it's all part…

— Richard Templar

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings.

— Gautama Buddha

Often our bad moments are self-propelled ... And the drama is almost exclusively within our heads and hearts.

— Katharine Tynan

Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.

— Thomas Paine

Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.

— Sasha Azevedo

Self-control is the chief element in self-respect and self-respect is the chief element in courage.

— Thucydides

It's only impossible if you stop to think about it. -Pirates! Band of Misfits

— Writers Of

I used to think aging was a scam, a total abdication of your self. Well, aging's not a scam, but quitting is.

— Jeff Lowe

What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's so great to be able to make people laugh, because this is so often how we get our selves back.

— Anne Lamott

There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption .

— Timothy Keller

If you fail to gain absolute self-control, you have failed in the greatest victory of life.

— Antoine R. Ivins

Satan delights to have us put ourselves down. Self-contempt is of Satan. There is no such thing in heaven.

— Neal A. Maxwell

Get naked with your truth, offering the world your greatest gift: your authentic self.

— Gabrielle Bernstein

I approach most things in life with a dangerous level of confidence to balance my generally low self-esteem.

— Roxane Gay

“Your success in worldly life (sansar) is in proportion to your faith and truthfulness!”

— Dada Bhagwan

Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.

— Ramana Maharshi