Self Quotes · Page 225

“I am a complicated person with a simple life and I am the reason for everything that ever happened to me.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

Self-honesty is absolutely necessary in the practice of Buddhism.

— Frederick Lenz

“Just keep telling yourself. I get better everyday and everyday I get better. Then see what happens.”

— Joseph C. Reyes

After many years of self-flagellation, I've realised that beating myself up doesn't get me anywhere.

— Chris Pine

I got my style. I got my own way of playing. I'm a musician. I'm self-taught.

— Sixto Rodriguez

Bloggers intent on self-expression which renders no service to readers don't get read.

— Lee Gutkind

I would have swapped out Donald Trump's frontal cortex for somebody else's for a little more self-control.

— David Brooks

When you become confident with your inner-self, the outside's just going to fall into place.

— Billy Blanks

Self-pity is an ignoble emotion, but we all feel it, and the orthodox critical line that it represents some kind of artistic…

— Nick Hornby

“The one who misses out on remaining as the Self (Nischay), his worldly interactions (vyavahaar) can never really be ‘vyavahaar’.”

— Dada Bhagwan

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self…

— Madeleine L'Engle

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

— John Sterling

The good news is that . . . humans are gifted by the potential for self-awareness and intelligent choice, and knowing our…

— William E. Rees

“The aim is not therefore to liberate some 'essential self' by throwing off the burden of government and the State, but to…

— Peter Marshall

You can't be a great comedian without having self-awareness about others or your own faults. You need a strong sense of self…

— Billy Eichner

I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All…

— Naomi Watts

If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with him as he is, not as I…

— Erich Fromm

Great art grabs you, against your will, and then suspends your will. You are ushered into a quiet clearing, free of desire,…

— Ken Wilber

I would confront the thieves, I thought, and the self-evident justice of my case would cause them to crumble before me. I…

— Robert Charles Wilson

True listening is never self-effacement. We bring the whole self to the process, rather than denying self. When we truly listen, we…

— T. Thorn Coyle

Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our…

— Haruki Murakami

Happiness was different in childhood. It was so much then a matter simply of accumulation, of taking things - new experiences, new…

— John Banville

I do have things I would like to see adopted on behalf of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people: they include the…

— Barney Frank

The dream of my life has risen to become fact. Self-defense in the ghetto will have been a reality. Jewish armed resistance…

— Mordechai Anielewicz

India.. a perfectly wonderful country, may have been motivated by a lack of self-esteem.

— William J. Clinton

Other than life experience, nothing left a deeper imprint on my formative self than the movies.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

I just can't pull my self away. Under her spell I can't break I just can't stop.

— Ne-yo

Self-regulation stands in relation to regulation the way self-importance stands in relation to importance.

— Willem Buiter

Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?

— Helena Bonham Carter

The real preparation for education is the study of one's self.

— Maria Montessori

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.

— Dag Hammarskjold

The disease we all have and that we have to fight against all our lives is ... the disease of self ...

— Sherwood Anderson

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.

— Confucius

“Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence.”

— Idries Shah

I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms.

— Caroline Knapp

Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.

— Tullian Tchividjian

When you really love, that makes you feel unsure in your self, even though it is love that reaches your heart.

— John de Ruiter

Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed.

— Mason Cooley

“Me: am i allowed 2 be good and evil at the same time? Higher self: look around, bb. that's all there is.”

— Melissa Broder