Quotes about self
self done worship
God is self-evident, impersonal, omniscient, the Knower and the Master of nature, the Lord of all. He is behind all worship and it is being done according to Him, whether we know it or not. Swami Vivekananda
self parent belief
Self-belief? My parents gave it to me. Tippi Hedren
self expression demand
The First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit- a spirit that demands self-expression . Thurgood Marshall
self doe absurd
The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving rendering. Thomas Woods
self complacency possession
So soon as the possession of property becomes the basis of popular esteem, therefore, it becomes also a requisite to that complacency which we call self-respect. Thorstein Veblen
self chance ends
concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security. Thucydides
self ego abiding
When you abide in the I you're abiding in the ego. The I is really the ego, the small I. It turns into the Self eventually. Robert Adams
self years feelings
All these years you've been searching and looking and trying to change things, trying to add thing onto yourself, trying to acquire things when you have been the source of everything to begin with. Everything you've been looking for has been within yourself you have been that. You then begin to surrender everything to yourself. You surrender all of your thoughts, all of your feelings, you surrender all of your desires, all of your wants to the Self. You pull it in all inwardly.
self secret mind
The secret to peace-of-mind is to not identify with anything other than your true self.
self perfect rejoice
You are the Self, that perfect immutable Self. Nothing else exists. Nothing else ever existed. Nothing else will ever exist. There is only one Self and you are That. Rejoice!
self roots evil
Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil. Robert A. Heinlein
self color wind
A pacifist male is a contradiction in terms. Most self-described "pacifists" are not pacific; they simply assume false colors. When the wind changes, they hoist the Jolly Roger.
self groups morality
The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.
self enemy
All my enemies are self-appointed.
selfish race purpose
The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.
self years people
Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect.
self safety democracy
What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it... which for the majority translates as 'Bread and Circuses'.
selfish blessed giving
Before my accident I was a little too... selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I can kinda give back and inspire people. I'm blessed. I'm really blessed. Rick Allen
self trying irony
You should never try irony or self-effacing humour. Tim Robbins
self-esteem frustration men
Men aren't allowed to have self-esteem, because we're already supposed to have all the power.... But most men earn less than they want, barely the minimum wage. They're drones. They do stuff they don't want to do to support their families, and they're not sure why they do it. They don't know what they're doing half the time, and any time we stick up for ourselves, we're pigs because we don't know how to articulate our frustrations and joys. Tim Allen
self want tongue
Only idiots and infants need things. The language of needs is the native tongue of socialists, therapists, and paternalists of all sorts and is addressed to needy dependents. The language of wants is spoken by self-respecting adults and is addressed to other self-respecting adults. Thomas Szasz
self discipline drug
After generations of living under medical tutelage, which provides us with protection (albeit illusory) against "dangerous drugs", we have failed to cultivate the self-reliance and self-discipline we must possess as competent adults surrounded by the fruits of our pharmacological-technological age.
self gains succeed
Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when the patient has something to gain by abandoning or modifying his system of self-justification.
selfish easier duty
It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.
self-esteem oxygen self-respect
Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive him of self-respect and you kill his spirit.
self groups helping
How can there be self-help groups? Steven Wright
self boss gas-stations
I saw a sign at a gas station. It said 'help wanted'. There was another sign below it that said 'self service'. So I hired myself. Then I made myself the boss. I gave myself a raise. I paid myself. Then I quit.
self lists motivated
There's nothing self-serving about what motivated me to bring 'Schindler's List' to the screen. Steven Spielberg
self play able
I'm not as self-destructive as Dylan Thomas, but I've certainly been around that behavior enough to have found it a release. The thing that I really enjoyed was being able to play misery. Tom Hollander
self-esteem esteem best-things
You your own best thing, Sethe. You are. Toni Morrison
self hands naked
She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was not a comrade and could never be - for a woman. And that no one would ever be that version of herself which she sought to reach out to and touch with an ungloved hand. There was only her own mood and whim, and if that was all there was, she decided to turn the naked hand toward it, discover it and let others become as intimate with their own selves as she was.
self tests strange
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
self events degrees
Every time you have a major breakthrough in self-knowledge, and see the way the divine works within your own psyche, external events, and interior experiences of the divine, you are transformed in some degree. Thomas Keating