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Self Quotes by Bernadette Roberts
- Only God is love, and for this love to be fully realized self must step aside. And not only do we not need a self…
- It is one step, and a giant one, to see clearly and participate in the love that flows between the persons of the Trinity, but…
- This journey then, is nothing more, yet nothing less than a period of acclimating to a new way of seeing, a time of transition and…
- But coming home that day, walking downhill with a panorama of valley and hills before me, I turned my gaze inward, and what I saw,…
- It is far more than the discovery of life without a self. The immediate, inevitable result is an emergence into a new dimension of knowing…
- The onset of this second movement is characterized by the falling away of self and coming upon "that" which remains when it is gone. But…
- ...a point is reached where the self is so completely aligned with the still-point that it can no longer be moved, even in its first…
- ......at this point the self has obviously outworn its function; it is no longer needed or useful, and life can go on without it. we…
More Self Quotes
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. — Arthur Ashe
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson
- A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster