Our Own Self Quotes
49 quotes by 45 authors
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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
— Joseph Campbell
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Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Farm workers everywhere are angry and worried that we cannot win without violence. We have proved it before through persistence, hard work, faith and willingness…
— Cesar Chavez
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Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness…
— Ella Maillart
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I do not believe that one can earnestly seek and find the priceless treasure of God's call without a devout prayer life. That is where…
— Ravi Zacharias
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Looking for honest ways to lift one another would . . . be more beneficial to our own self-esteem, for we would see more good…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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When we seek happiness through accumulation, either outside of ourselves-from other people, relationships, or material goods-or from our own self-development, we are missing the essential…
— Mark Epstein
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It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.
— Ella Maillart
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I believe that to meet the challenge of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. We must all…
— Dalai Lama
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We women often gauge our own self-worth by the quality of our interactions with our lovers. And often these interactions are interpreted for, described for,…
— Carrie Preston
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The lesson of the Federation should be that the lesson is over. Australia must have a new idea of itself. We have to strike out…
— Paul Keating
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How easy it is to forgive and loose the most violent offender, when in tears, they repent. How difficult it is forgiving our own self,…
— Stefanie Schneider
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I believe we all have the Voice of Reason inside us...to gently lead us out of our own self-created hells...
— Bill Hicks
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This is the power of art: The power to transcend our own self-interest, our solipsistic zoom-lens on life, and relate to the world and each…
— Maria Popova
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All things are created twice, but not all first creations are by conscious design. In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own…
— Stephen Covey
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How we feel about our own self, how well or little we know our own self, whether we feel alive inside, largely determine the quality…
— Stephanie Dowrick
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I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.
— Josh Fox
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The world is part of our own self and we are a part of its suffering wholeness. Until we go to the root of our…
— Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
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I've learned that loving your self requires a courage unlike any other. It requires us to believe in and stay loyal to something no one…
— Mark Nepo
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It is important that when pursing our own self-interest we should be 'wise selfish' and not 'foolish selfish'. Being foolish selfish means pursuing our own…
— Dalai Lama
Who Wrote These Our Own Self Quotes
45 authors contributed a total of 49 Our Own Self Quotes, led by these top contributors: