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Self Quotes by Karen Armstrong
- Nirvana is something within you. It is not an external reality. No god thunders down from the mountaintop. Just as the great mystics in the…
- Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or…
- You are your best self when you give yourself away.
- A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was a tyrant. If God is…
- Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is found in the…
- After a time I found that I could almost listen to the silence, which had a dimension all of its own. I started to attend…
- The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded in the egoism…
- If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good…
- If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that…
- Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled…
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