Self Quotes

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Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we provide our inner being with… — Bell Hooks
But in order to be strong, you have to love yourself, and in order to love yourself, you need thorough self-knowledge, you need to know… — Susanna Tamaro
We receive mixed messages about taking good care of ourselves. Love thy neighbor as thyself means to love thyself and thy neighbor. Yet, self-love often… — Jennifer James
The feeling of being valuable is a cornerstone of self-discipline because when you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself- including things like… — M. Scott Peck
When we find delight in another person, we've actually found something joyful inside ourselves that involves a shift in our awareness, a shift in our… — Deepak Chopra
You must learn to honor and cherish and love your Self. You must first see your Self as worthy before you can see another as… — Neale Donald Walsch
Self-approval and self-acceptance in the now are the main keys to positive changes in every area of our lives. — Louise Hay
Lack of self-worth is the fundamental source of all emotional pain. A feeling of insecurity, unworthiness and lack of valueis the core experience of powerlessness. — Gary Zukav
Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing — Jay McInerney
Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being. — Lord Acton
Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others. — Alistair Cooke
English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as… — James Anthony Froude
People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a… — Eric Hoffer
The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The cross stands as a mystery because it is foreign to everything we exalt- self over principle, power over meekness, the quick fix over the… — Ravi Zacharias
At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and… — Jules Feiffer
The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment. — William Sloane Coffin
The goal of evolution is self - conquest — Elbert Hubbard
Motherhood implies from the beginning a special openness to the new person: and this is precisely the woman's 'part'. In this openness, in conceiving and… — Pope John Paul II

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