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Self Quotes by Alan Watts
- Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.
- Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to…
- We are the eyes of the cosmos. So that in a way, when you look deeply into somebody's eyes, you are looking deeply into yourself,…
- Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration.
- Black implies white self implies other
- It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about "I".
- The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without the bad, the…
- And the more you become aware of the unknown self - if you become aware of it - the more you realize that it is…
- So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
- Belief…is the insistence that the truth is what one would ‘lief’ or (will or) wish to be…Faith is an unreserved opening of the mind to…
- Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled,…
- Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable…
- There is only this now. It does not come from anywhere; it is not going anywhere. It is not permanent, but it is not impermanent.…
- There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied. You cannot talk yourself into it or rouse it by…
- The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of the self, or…
- The self-styled practical man of affairs who pooh-poohs philosophy as a lot of windy notions is himself a pragmatist or a positivist, and a bad…
More Self Quotes
- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Life never was intended to be easy. Rather, it is a period of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges,… — Richard G. Scott
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions. — Dalai Lama
- Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Forgive yourself and get over 'self hatred.' In life, everybody screws up I mean everybody. Some people blame themselves for stuff, when… — Pacifiersucker
- It is the policy of the Indian government: We can lament the lack of talent in the country because it is easier… — Mak_786
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden