Quotes about self
self conversation self-talk
Be mindful of your self-talk. It's a conversation with the universe. David James
self skulls consistency
The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we've dreamt of building. David Eagleman
self secret kind
If you're going to maintain any kind of self-respect, you're going to have to keep secrets from yourself. David Eddings
self people bless
Nothing about the priesthood is self-centered. The priesthood always is used to serve, to bless, and to strengthen other people. David A. Bednar
self world shapes
We shape our self to fit this world and by the world are shaped again David Whyte
self joy doorways
To feel a full and untrammeled joy is to have become fully generous; to allow our selves to be joyful is to have walked through the doorway of fear, the dropping away of the anxious worried self...the vulnerability of happiness felt suddenly as a strength, a solace and a source, the claiming of our place in the living conversation...
self-knowledge
You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.
self ironic arrogance
Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human arrogance off one pedestal after another of our previous conviction about our own self-importance. Stephen Jay Gould
self law arbitrary
Heydrich, Eichmann, and company therefore invoke the usual trick of argument for breaking a true continuum that lacks a compelling point for separation: choose an arbitrary dividing line and then treat it as a self-evident law of nature.
self vision stones
Before Kuhn , most scientists followed the place-a-stone-in-the-bright-temple-of-knowledge tradition, and would have told you that they hoped, above all, to lay many of the bricks, perhaps even the keystone, of truth's temple. Now most scientists of vision hope to foment revolution. We are, therefore, awash in revolutions, most self-proclaimed.
self support
It's self-evident that we support the American bid,
selfless service
It's all about service to others. It's really a selfless day.
self
And that's a self-portrait of himself, by himself. Richard Madeley
self stop tedious
Stop the I. When that's all you have to say, it is very tedious and self-promoting.
selfless team totally
They've been totally selfless and they've been all about the team and they've been all about winning. Billy Donovan
selfish
You don't want to get too selfish over times. But we went out and got it done again.
self fool interfere
What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness! Kurt Vonnegut
selfish stories remember
A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have no compulsion to be decent about anything.
self ideas use
Gandhi’s idea of swadeshi—that local societies should put their own resources and capacities to use to meet their needs as a basic element of freedom—is becoming increasingly relevant. We cannot afford to forget that we need self-rule, especially in this world of globalization. Vandana Shiva
self example denied
If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide, By self-example mayst thou be denied. William Shakespeare
selfish kids inspire
When your kid is being selfish or greedy and you want to help them not be that way, you have to find a way to articulate it and inspire them. Louis C. K.
self helping shows
I've always got the road. Stand-up makes you so autonomous and self-sufficient that it really helps with that part of show business.
self sign tax
No self-respecting tax practitioner would sign on to any of these.
self-esteem pillars esteem
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life. Meryl Streep
self people scare
I'm self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes. Bjork
self way study
To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. Dogen
self forever mind
To study the Way is to study the Self. To study the Self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things of the universe. To be enlightened by all things of the universe is to cast off the body and mind of the self as well as those of others. Even the traces of enlightenment are wiped out, and life with traceless enlightenment goes on forever and ever
self mind enlightenment
Studying the Buddha way is studying oneself. Studying oneself is forgetting oneself. Forgetting oneself is being enlightened by all things. Being enlightened by all things is to shed the body-mind of oneself, and those of others. No trace of enlightenment remains, and this traceless enlightenment continues endlessly.
self mind realization
To study the buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things. When actualized by myriad things, your body and mind as well as the bodies and minds of others drop away. No trace of realization remains, and this no trace continues endlessly.
self enlightenment trying
To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.
self
Self-inflicted wounds, you know. It was all just self-inflicted.
selfless volunteer
The willingness to volunteer is a selfless act.
self wise
The wise are those who know the Self. Sathya Baba