Self Quotes

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The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction. — Ambrose Bierce
When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God's generous… — Erwin W. Lutzer
Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent in the divine… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The 'coming of the Self' is an apocalypse for the ego, the 'you' that wants to hang along for the ride. It may be that… — Daniel Pinchbeck
Internal self-government under a local constitution was authorized by Congress and approved by the residents in 1952, but federal law is supreme in Puerto Rico… — Dick Thornburgh
The patriot, like the Christian, must learn to bear revilings and persecutions as a part of his duty; and in proportion as the trial is… — Thomas Jefferson
Self-esteem is the prize awarded by you to you for playing by your own rules - in which case, you'd think it would be easier… — Terry Rossio
Men are not free when they're doing just what they like. Men are only free when they're doing what the deepest self likes. And there… — D. H. Lawrence
A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service is being reorganized… — John Ralston Saul
It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery. — Henri Frederic Amiel
There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness. — Adi Shankara
What distinguishes the historical social system we are calling historical capitalism is that in this historical system capital came to be used (invested) in a… — Immanuel Wallerstein
As a matter of law the states recognized no constraints on their legislative scope other than those that were self-imposed. Even where particular state constitutions… — Immanuel Wallerstein
The break from the supposedly culturally-narrow religious bases of knowledge in favor of supposedly trans-cultural scientific bases of knowledge served as the self-justification of a… — Immanuel Wallerstein
It is, let me say, at the very least by no means self-evident that there is more liberty, equality, and fraternity in the world today… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Time seemed to suspend itself, or cease altogether. Place faded away. There was only her self, the centre that endured through all times, all events,… — Lois Tilton
The individual woman is required . . . a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her… — Jeannette Rankin
That we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ - not for Self, but to give harvests of… — Oscar Romero
How can we know ourselves by ourselves? . . . Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply to live. For this we… — James Hillman

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