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Self Quotes by John O'Donohue
- Respectability and security are subtle traps on life's journey. Those who are drawn to extremes are often nearer to renewal and self-discovery. Those trapped in…
- When you learn to embrace your self with a sense of appreciation and affection, you begin to glimpse the goodness and light that is in…
- The infinite is a light sleeper. The moment the self awakens, the force of the infinite begins to stir.
- The heart is the inner face of your life. The human journey strives to make this inner face beautiful. It is here that love gathers…
- The ego is the false self-born out of fear and defensiveness.
- There is a relentless search for the factual and this quest often lacks warmth or reverence. At a certain stage in our life we may…
- When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you. Where before there was anonymity,…
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