Self Quotes

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Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident. — John Owen
Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion… — John Owen
Great winds and storms help fruit-bearing trees. So also do corruptions and temptations help the fruitfulness of grace and holiness. The storm loosens the earth… — John Owen
Jesus does not divide the world into the moral "good guys" and the immoral "bad guys". He shows us that everyone is dedicated to a… — Timothy Keller
My vision for the future? Two things: to make credit a human right so that each individual human being will have the opportunity to take… — Muhammad Yunus
Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ecologically speaking, a spilt tanker load is like sticking a safety pin into an elephant's foot. The planet barely notices. After the Exxon Valdez accident… — Jeremy Clarkson
Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity. — Oscar Wilde
Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children. — Phillips Brooks
Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this… — Elizabeth Hardwick
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. — Agnes Repplier
Whatever money you might have, self-worth really lies in finding out what you do best. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation… — Thomas Jefferson
Meditation means conscious self-expansion. Meditation means one's conscious awareness of the transcendental Reality. Meditation means the recognition or the discovery of one's own true self.… — Sri Chinmoy
Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquillity, nor is it attempting to become a better person. It is… — Pema Chodron
Meditation gives you an opportunity to come to know your invisible self. It allows you to empty yourself of the endless hyperactivity of your mind,… — Wayne Dyer
For, as has been indicated from the innate experience as well as from the longings within, a home - home - with all its deeper,… — Edgar Cayce
[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we would… — Christopher Hitchens
Religion is the process of unconscious wish fulfillment, where, for certain people, if the process did not take place it would put them in self-danger… — Sigmund Freud
Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep… — Christopher Hitchens

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