Self Quotes

14166 Self quotes by 6037 unique authors

When you give yourself away you find that a new and more real self has somehow been given to you. — Peter Kreeft
I tell you that victory consists in conquering self. That is the greatest enemy. — Paul of the Cross
Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness. — Peter Kreeft
When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth. — Bell Hooks
Most of us did not learn when we were young that our capacity to be self-loving would be shaped by the work we do and… — Bell Hooks
I may say that (Being) love, in a profound but testable sense, creates the partner. it gives him a self-image, it gives him self-acceptance, a… — Abraham Maslow
Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love of the limited self, the very limited self, is another name for human love. Love of the entire world is another name for divine… — Sri Chinmoy
To love someone is to always see them as the miracle that they are; as the miracle that they exist, the miracle that makes your… — Philip K. Jason
Love is a time-honored way to transcend the separate-self sense and leap into the sublime; Treya and I held hands, closed our eyes, and jumped. — Ken Wilber
Love and the self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both. — Leo Buscaglia
The only motive strong enough to induce men to exercise the self control required by the religion of Jesus is love. — Marion G. Romney
Accept disgrace willingly... Accept being unimportant... Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things. Love the world as your own… — Laozi
The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man's mind. And no… — H. L. Mencken
I sat there beside him till morning - and as I watched his face in the starlight, then the first ray of the sun on… — Ayn Rand
Many of us knock on the door but remain outside, because knocking and entering are entirely different actions. Knocking is necessary, consisting of reading books,… — Vernon Howard
Archetypes, in spite of their conservative nature, are not static but in a continuous dramatic flux. Thus the self as a monad or continuous unit… — Carl Jung
The will and self are ultimately dynamic, they are their actions. This energy can be trained and directed, tuned like an orchestra. It is not… — Kenny Smith
There is no extrahistorical or eternalist or abstractivistically pure standpoint where we can get oriented in the absolute Truth per se before dealing with the… — Kenny Smith
These various forms appear different in shape and size, yet they are of a single essence. . . . The Sixth Patriarch called it "essence… — Dennis Merzel
The world, with all its beauty, its happiness and suffering, its joys and pains, is planned with the utmost ingenuity, in order that the powers… — Annie Besant
Thank you, God, for the dignity and beauty of self. The precious innate self. The only thing that can't be taken from us. The only… — Marjorie Holmes
It is only to the finest natures that age gives an added beauty and distinction; for the most persistent self has then worked its way… — Unknown Author
What am I, really? The beautiful thing...is nobody can tell us what we are. Nobody can really tell us. Not in a way that's going… — Adyashanti
So the divine love is sacrificial love. Love does not mean to have and to own and to possess. It means to be had and… — Fulton J. Sheen

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