Self Quotes

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Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be? — P.J. O'Rourke
If enlightenment comes first, before thinking, before practice, your thinking and your practice will not be self-centered. By enlightenment I mean believing in nothing, believing… — Shunryu Suzuki
Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Sometimes when we're feeling sad, it's important just to feel the sadness. Like a snake shedding its skin, old feelings of remorse and regret and… — Marianne Williamson
Americans, both politicians and voters, may have become corrupted by big government beyond redemption. A virtuous government requires a virtuous people. A frugal government requires… — Charley Reese
Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
An affected laugh shows lack of self-respect in a man and lewdness in a woman. It is carelessness to go about with one's hands inside… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves. — Dogen
A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business; supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state; supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon. — Edward Abbey
The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I'm going to get a new hairdo and look terrific and go back to school and even if nobody notices, I'm going to be the… — Joanne Woodward
...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of a self-sacrificing devotion… — Arthur Koestler
In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough… — Edward McKendree Bounds
When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when you slip up… — Aldous Huxley
It's different when you talk about immigration in the abstract... It's very different when you sit in front of a family, and [undocumented] children who… — Mike Coffman
I am poor and feeble, persecuted and vulnerable, Yeshua conquered me, and with the New Man he honored me, He delivered me from the poverty-stricken… — Daniel Zion
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." This sentence alone would save mankind if all books and prophets were lost. This… — Swami Vivekananda
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. — E F Schumacher

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