Self Quotes · Page 207

I have amazing collaborators as well, but I want to learn more and be a self-contained unit.

— FKA twigs

There is nothing else anything like so interesting to ourselves as ourselves.

— James Harvey Robinson

Making our goal anything other than peace is emotionally self-destructive.

— Marianne Williamson

Immaturity is the inability to delay self gratification.

— Mike Murdock

The power of a positive self-image plays a vital role in experiencing perfect health.

— Deepak Chopra

Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.

— Rollo May

I know that love is about power, too. Who gives, who takes. Who is willing to risk showing their true self.

— Alison Goodman

Your mind is programmable – if you’re not programming your mind, someone else will program it for you.

— Jeremy Hammond

The larger the ego, the less the need for other egos around. The more modest, humble, and self-effacing we feel, the more…

— Barbara Holland

Childhood was definitely my most formative time in terms of my creative self. My adolescence was very much the dark years. I…

— Julio Torres

I'm not saying this just to be self-deprecating, but I have always taken delight in playing people who are oblivious, because I…

— Ty Burrell

It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual…

— Walter Kirn

... those, who from an immoderate and false self-love, study to keep their humanity under, always take care, for their own sakes,…

— Mary Collyer

Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.

— Charlie Munger

The ego is like a tired old dog. We can never kill it, so put it out on the back porch, let…

— Carlos Castaneda

Being honest to Self is the biggest blessing one can bestow on himself.It is self catch prize. Try never to miss it.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

“You are a confabulatory creature by nature. You are always explaining to yourself the motivations for your actions and the causes to…

— David McRaney

Whoever's reading this, if anyone is reading it: does it matter that our old selves are lost to us as surely as…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I was deluding myself that the song was almost not important, but I think the real thing that was happening was almost…

— John Fogerty

I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, I do, yet dare…

— Elizabeth I

Meditation is to attain to a no-mindness, to a state of no-thought. In that opening of no-thought, in that kind of space,…

— Rajneesh

There is provided an escape from the narrowness and poverty of the individual life, and the possibility of a life which is…

— John Caird

My new 9mm didn’t fit my hand as well as my old one, but it was rapidly becoming a familiar weight. At…

— Karen Chance

In writing you work toward a result you won't see for years, and can't be sure you'll ever see. It takes stamina…

— Tobias Wolff

Every quality I despise in George Bush is a quality I despise in myself. He is my worst self realized.

— David Shields

I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.

— Ted Nugent

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

— Evinda Lepins

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

— Saurabh Dudeja

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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Joseph Campbell

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

— Marcel Proust

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

— James Cagney

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

— Norm Phelps

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

— Karrin Allyson

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

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

— Tony Horton

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

— Don DeLillo

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

— John de Ruiter

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

— Michael Pollan