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Self Quotes by Joseph Campbell
- When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.
- For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state,
- The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
- Your ego is your embodiment and your self is your potentiality and that's what you listen to when you listen for the voice of inspiration…
- The way to find out about happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you are really happy…
- Following your bliss is not self-indulgent, but vital; your whole physical system knows that this is the way to be alive in this world and…
- The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is…
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