Self Quotes · Page 154

“Relationships are often transactional, except of course we want to wallow in self-deception.”

— John Joclebs Bassey

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

— Frank Herbert

The essence of self-fulfillment and autonomous culture is an unshakable egotism.

— H. L. Mencken

I sing the body that is electric! I celebrate the Self yet to be unveiled!

— Walt Whitman

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

— Sun Tzu

“People are ready to die for their opinion, but not for the Self.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“I simply love being me. You have no power to control my feelings because I own my own heart”

— Che Acebido

Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.

— Ben Harper

Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life.

— Josiah Royce

Unchain yourself from the guilt that you aren’t doing something right, that you’re not leaving the “right” legacy, and BE your real…

— Wendy Keller

The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies. Living consciously…

— Bell Hooks

Brokenness is the STRIPPING OF SELF-RELIANCE AND INDEPENDENCE FROM GOD...but he is cast in total dependence upon the grace of God working…

— Nancy Leigh DeMoss

The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.

— Albert Ellis

It's so easy to get caught up in your own self-doubt when you're writing. It can be so easy to tell yourself,…

— Michael Cera

[Salvation] is a curious process of divine burglary. The first thing to be wrested from one by a God who said 'Thou…

— Elizabeth Goudge

I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in…

— Audre Lorde

Apparently Brooklyn needn't always push itself to be something else, something conscious and anxious, something pointed toward Manhattan… Brooklyn might sometimes also…

— Jonathan Lethem

Its SO much easier to place the blame on others, but we must learn to be 100% accountable for ourselves. We have…

— Stephanie Lahart

Each new day beckons you to walk on the road of self-transcendence. We transcend ourselves, we do not compete with others. We…

— Sri Chinmoy

Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were…

— Nikolai Gogol

The very act of thinking about power in our lives and experiences creates a process of revelation and self-analysis that may even…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

For a while I felt like I spoke a different language than my immediate family. It wasn't until my teens that I…

— E.J. Bonilla

It is possible that scientists, poets, painters and writers are all members of the same family of people whose gift it is…

— Gary Zukav

Study nothing except in the knowledge that you already knew it. Worship nothing except in adoration of your true self. And fear…

— Clive Barker

I have really low self-esteem, and it's not easy for me to put myself on an album cover.

— Bradford Cox

Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.

— Boris Kodjoe

Excuses are a list of self imposed obstacles that prevent you from having a better life.

— Tony Horton

Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others

— Michael Pollan

For your self to become pure, give everything to what is already pure in you.

— John de Ruiter

World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.

— Don DeLillo

Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

— John Updike

For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state,

— Joseph Campbell

To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding.

— Richard Paul Evans

“The only person that believes the absolute in you is your own real self...”

— Saurabh Dudeja

“An apology given just to appease one's conscience is self-serving and better left unspoken!”

— Evinda Lepins

Keeping your artistic self as creative as possible is a balancing act.

— Karrin Allyson

It is a feeble compassion that pulls up short where self-interest begins.

— Norm Phelps

Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life.

— James Cagney

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

— Marcel Proust