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Self Quotes by Khalil Gibran
- Perhaps a man may commit suicide in self-defense.
- I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes; nor would I be content with converting my tears, invited…
- Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.
- Remember that Divinity is the true self of Man. It cannot be sold for gold; neither can it be heaped up as are the riches…
- Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.
- Seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless.
- Persecution cannot harm him who stands by Truth. Did not Socrates fall proudly a victim in body? Was not Paul stoned for the sake of…
- O love, whose lordly hand Has bridled my desires, And raised my hunger and my thirst To dignity and pride, Let not the strong in…
- You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
- Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to…
- Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore trust the physician,…
- Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own…
- I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.
- Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your…
- Much of your pain is self-chosen.
- For what is prayer but the expansion of your self into the living ether?
- Like the ocean is your god-self; It remains for ever undefiled. And like the ether it lifts but the winged. Even like the sun 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