Self Quotes

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Mental toughness is Spartanism, with all its qualities of self-denial, sacrifice, dedication, fearlessness, and love. — Vince Lombardi
Acid is not for every brain .... Only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high-velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism is totally self-determined.… — Timothy Leary
And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are convertible terms. Prohibition,… — Felix Mendelssohn
Nirvana is something within you. It is not an external reality. No god thunders down from the mountaintop. Just as the great mystics in the… — Karen Armstrong
While you are alive, your worldly self is like a collector of benefits from Allah's bounties, which come to you from myriads of hands. — Ibn Arabi
The death of the self lies in the life of the heart — Ja'far al-Sadiq
A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people — Al-Ghazali
There are four types of oceans. Passions are the ocean of sins, the self (nafs) is the ocean of lust, death is the ocean of… — Unknown Author
Don't forget your own self while preaching to others. — Unknown Author
People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for… — Al-Ghazali
Say Bismillah, In the name of God, as the shaykh does with a knife when he offers an animal. Bismillah your old self to find… — Unknown Author
So let us decide whether you want a shelter, a safety zone, which will no longer yield conflict, whether you want to escape from the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I suggest that just as self-consciousness is the goal for all the subhuman forms of life, and as group consciousness, or the consciousness of the… — Alice Bailey
That higher awakening is called God-consciousness. In that condition, you will see that all the objects of the world are your own universal self. — Krishnananda Saraswati
We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
However, when we shift our awareness or "frequency" from self-consciousness - where fear, impossibility or feelings of separation reside - to cosmic consciousness, which is… — Rhonda Byrne
He is conscious only of God...To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self. — Meister Eckhart
How does one get rid of fear? Ramana: What is fear? It is only a thought. If there is anything besides the Self there is… — Ramana Maharshi
We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. The more self-love we have,… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
The Greeks had two words for time. Chronos is the time we usually keep an eye on. Kairos was our participation of time. Time that… — Jean Shinoda Bolen

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