Self Quotes

14166 Self quotes by 6037 unique authors

Individuality in universality is the plan of creation. Each cell has its part in bringing about consciousness. Man is individual and at the same time… — Swami Vivekananda
It is false to speak of realisation. What is there to realise? The real is as it is always. We are not creating anything new… — Ramana Maharshi
There are no steps to self-realization. There is nothing gradual about it. It happens suddenly and is irreversible. You rotate into a new dimension, seen… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Our human responsibility for animal rights, plant rights, and the rights of the earth to its health and wholeness is self-evident. Whatever our beliefs about… — Densey Clyne
The purpose of life is to create your Self anew, in the next grandest version of the greatest vision ever you held about Who You… — Neale Donald Walsch
The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very… — Oscar Wilde
Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain… — George Eliot
It takes great self-confidence to write a newspaper column. Some might say it takes arrogance. Be that as it may, my willingness to pronounce on… — Russell Baker
Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will… — Mark Twain
It is silly to call fat people ''gravitationally challenged'' - a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration. — Terry Eagleton
It's never too early to teach your children about the tool of money. Teach them how to work for it and they learn pride and… — Judith Jamison
A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money. — E. Stanley Jones
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… — Khalil Gibran
I think self-knowledge is a key to happiness.We can build happy lives only on the foundation of our own natures, our own values, and our… — Gretchen Rubin
Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise. — Karl Barth
Times of upheaval require not just more leadership but more leaders. People at all organizational levels, whether anointed or self-appointed, must be empowered to share… — Rosalynn Carter
Citizens who over-rely on their government to do everything not only become dependent on their government, they end up having to do whatever the government… — Charles Koch
The good news is that . . . humans are gifted by the potential for self-awareness and intelligent choice, and knowing our circumstance is an… — William E. Rees
Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has fled his Self… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference. — Karl Jaspers
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation. — Vernon Howard
In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out of a deliberate… — William Butler Yeats
. . . Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well-based -… — Carl Sagan
Humans suffer from self-centred notions as to the nature of life. Humans assume that alien life forms should conform to standards that match our own,… — Steve Perry

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