Our Self Quotes

234 Our Self quotes by 173 unique authors

Our self-respect tracks our choices. Every time we act in harmony with our authentic self and our heart, we earn our respect. It is that… — Don Coppersmith
Emotional dependence is the opposite of emotional strength. It means needing to have others to survive, wanting others to "do it for us," and depending… — Sue Thoele
All unhappiness is caused by our trying to be limited, to be an ego. The more we are our Self, the happier we are. We… — Lester Levenson
We want to know what our self is. We are the sky. Our thoughts are the birds that come and go. You can enjoy the… — Frederick Lenz
Structure ignites spontaneity. Limits yield intensity. When we play... by our self-chosen rules, we find that containment of strength amplifies strength. — Stephen Nachmanovitch
The experience of love and the experience of death destroy the illusion of our self-sufficiency. The two are closely connected, and to become fully human… — David Steindl-Rast
It is possible that scientists, poets, painters and writers are all members of the same family of people whose gift it is by nature to… — Gary Zukav
Whenever we do something for someone else, we affirm that we are not simply in it for ourselves, that our self is someone else, is… — Frederick Lenz
What is incarnation? Incarnation is self-reflection. The universe that we are in is constructed, is a reflection of ourselves. We picked the dimension according to… — Frederick Lenz
Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and of the poor… — Eric Hoffer
The law was given to crush our self-confidence and drive us to Jesus. — Elyse Fitzpatrick
Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate… — Bill Vaughan
It's important that we recognize how extreme the Republicans are in almost every case and how against our self-interest it is to vote for them… — Gloria Steinem
Every spoken word arouses our self-will. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self. — Wavy Gravy
I think there's a natural link between the fact that our self is a story that we make up and that we're drawn to stories.… — Mohsin Hamid
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our… — William Hazlitt
We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit. — William Hazlitt
If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because… — Kathy Ireland
We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not. — Ray Kurzweil
If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been… — Jaron Lanier
If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to… — Queen Latifah
Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become. — Maxwell Maltz
To me, the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhetoric of the powerless. The planet takes care of… — Lynn Margulis
We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self… — Edna St. Vincent Millay

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