Self Quotes

14166 Self quotes by 6037 unique authors

Knowing has two poles, and they are always poles apart: carnal knowing, the laying on of hands, the hanging of the fact by head or… — William H. Gass
...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures. — Reinhold Niebuhr
The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism,… — Oliver Goldsmith
Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution. — Laozi
The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a… — George Eliot
Whatever hinders us from receiving a blessing that God is willing to bestow upon us is not humility, but the mockery of it. A genuine… — Unknown Author
Self-absorption is always a temptation to young people, and if their religion is of a sort to add to this self-absorption, I feel that it… — Hannah Whitall Smith
Did either the nonexistent or the measured response after a series of attacks on Americans the past decade - in Lebanon, Africa, Saudi Arabia, New… — Victor Davis Hanson
How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star? — H. Rider Haggard
Self-denial is taught much better by inspiring the love of our neighbor, than by the prohibition of innocent comforts and pleasures. Spirituality is much better… — Harriet Martineau
Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly there is. It… — John Jay Chapman
Knowing what you admire in others is a wonderful mirror into your deepest, as yet unborn, self. — Gretchen Rubin
With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the… — Carl von Clausewitz
And I don't see that popular measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for Man but push him further into the mud. Currently, popularity endorses… — L. Ron Hubbard
I've often said that the only thing I can change with magick is myself. I believe that. Whatever changes I wish to effect with magick,… — Lon Milo DuQuette
Give me the death of my soul. Intoxicate me with self-love. — Austin Osman Spare
When you work for others, you are at their mercy. They own your work; they own you. Your creative spirit is squashed. What keeps you… — Curtis Jackson
If you a man and your over 25 and you don't eat pu**y just kill your self damn it. The world will be a better… — Curtis Jackson
The child builds his inmost self out of the deeply held impressions he receives. — Maria Montessori
An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies and mental capacities,… — Maria Montessori
The real preparation for education is a study of one's self. The training of the teacher...is something far more than a learning of ideas. It… — Maria Montessori
The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self. Adults work to finish a task, but the child works in… — Maria Montessori
I just think that whole culture of hatred, and also feeling like it's your right to judge people when you don't know them, is really… — Alexa Chung
Fasting reduces the power of self so that the Holy Spirit can do a more intense work within us. — Bill Bright
Grief does not seem to me to be a choice. Whether or not you think grief has value, you will lose what matters to you.… — Mark Doty

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