Self Quotes · Page 170

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

— Henry Blodget

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

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Heritier Ndele Tremaris Campbell

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

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

“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

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

— Peg Bracken

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

— Mehmet Murat ildan

It seems self-evident that we should want people to be free, to be able to play an active part in making decisions…

— Noam Chomsky

Karate-do may be referred to as the conflict within yourself, or a life-long marathon which can be won only through self-discipline, hard…

— Shoshin Nagamine

“Self-perception is important because it allows you to figure out who you are. It also enables you to determine how to close…

— Benjamin Smith

I am neither for conformity nor non-conformity. I am for individuality. If one's individuality is in effect non-conformity, then so be it.…

— Paul Krassner

When I was in my early forties, I slept with a loaded gun under my bed. Id become severely depressed in my…

— Byron Katie

Very rarely will I say nice things about myself because that'll only lead to self-esteem, but the podcast is something I'm really…

— Jimmy Pardo

We want to know what our self is. We are the sky. Our thoughts are the birds that come and go. You…

— Frederick Lenz

Sometimes you're sure dogs have some secret, superior intelligence, and other times you know they're only their simple, goofy selves.

— Deb Caletti

He who laughs does not believe in what he laughs at, but neither does he hate it. Therefore, laughing at evil means…

— Umberto Eco

“Agnan (‘ignorance of the self’ based knowledge) takes one down and in that, the energies of the pudgal (non-Self complex, that which…

— Dada Bhagwan

Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he'd led his boys to consider the…

— Tobias Wolff

For in this world, marked by sin, the gravitational pull of our lives is weighted by the chains of the "I" and…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool.…

— Rachel Cusk

Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women's…

— Anonymous

This is how they justify not wanting to strive for self-improvement. It's how they explain their continued inaction. It's just an excuse.…

— Valeria Lukyanova

Silence has many dimensions. It can be a regression and an escape, a loss of self, or it can be presence, awareness,…

— Thomas Merton

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

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

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

— Writers Of

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

— Thucydides

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Anne Lamott

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