Quotes about self
self elements power-of-god
Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God. Oswald Chambers
self hands obedience
If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the other hand, my ruling disposition is obedience to God, I perceive Him to be at work for my perfecting in everything that happens to me.
self hands circles
It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each other’s pockets and somehow get rich. Paul Harvey
self awkward world
An awkward consequence of heightening experience when one is inexperienced, of self-transcendence when one has not much world to lose, is that afterward one cannot be sure that one was somewhere or had newly experienced anything. If you aren't much in the world, how do you know you are "out of this world"? Paul Goodman
self want clients
There are rules in advertising, and those rules are self-imposed by the client companies because they don't want their products to be seen as dishonest. Paul Arden
self next stories
We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next. Paul Auster
self sometimes
I sort of have to self-censor sometimes. Judah Friedlander
self life-is my-friends
If my life is of no value to my friends it is of none to myself. Joseph Smith, Jr.
self mortals
We are all mortals, and each is for himself. Moliere
self humanity brain
We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains. Mohsin Hamid
self imagine easy
If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy.
self helping sufi
Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.
self political economic
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest? Milton Friedman
self goal judging
Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The scientist seeking to advance the frontiers of his discipline, the missionary seeking to convert infidels to the true faith, the philanthropist seeking to bring comfort to the needy - all are pursuing their interests, as they see them, as they judge them by their own values.
self evil people
I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintainence of a free society is a very difficult and complicated thing and it requires a self-denying ordinance of the most extreme kind. It requires a willingness to put up with temporary evils on the basis of the subtle and sophisticated understanding that if you step in to do something about them you not only may make them worse, you will spread your tenticles and get bad results elsewhere.
self goal limits
Limits are self-imposed. But there are no limits to human energy nor the goals you can achieve. Mike Shanahan
self knowing discipline
People talk about discipline, but to me, there's discipline and there's self-discipline. Discipline is listening to people tell you what to do, where to be, and how to do something. Self-discipline is knowing that you are responsible for everything that happens in your life; you are the only one who can take yourself to the desired heights.
self differences serenity
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Nate Silver
self slave masters
To be one's own master is to be the slave of self. Natalie Clifford Barney
self feelings relax
As you you deeply into your own awareness, and relax the self-contraction, and dissolve into the empty ground of your own primordial experience, the simply feeling of Being-right now, right here-is it not obvious at once? Ken Wilber
self gains awareness
To develop a more or less accurate self-image...is simply to gain a comprehensive awareness of those facets of yourself which you didn't know existed. And these facets are easily spotted because they show up as your symptoms.
self world matter
For authentic transformation is not a matter of belief but of the death of the believer; not a matter of translating the world but of transforming the world; not a matter of finding solace but of finding infinity on the other side of death. The self is not made content; the self is made toast.
self sky clouds
When the thunder roars, do you not hear your Self? When the lightening cracks, do you not see your Self? When clouds float quietly across the sky, is this not your very own limitless Being, waving back at you?
self doe world
Authentic spirituality is revolutionary. It does not legitimate the world, it breaks the world; it does not console the world, it shatters it. And it does not render the self content, it renders it undone.
self world awakening
He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world. Kate Chopin
self wish rise-above
It is always legitimate to wish to rise above one's self, never above others. Julia Ward Howe
self discipline looks
Charity is an unending self-discipline which always looks and leads towards the eternal affection. Therefore, its triumph shall be lasting and everlasting.
self pay feels
When you do the right thing, but not to any particular person, we instinctively feel that we have earned some sort of pay back. Since no-one will do that for us, we opt for self-service reciprocation. Julian Baggini
self people surveillance
Society develops a type of self-censorship, with the knowledge that surveillance exists - a self-censorship that is even expressed when people communicate with each other privately. Julian Assange
self survival instinct
I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation. Julian Barnes
self mirrors looks
I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was. Ken Kesey
self hypnosis stay-true
I've always tried to stay true to my authentic self. Katie Couric
self trying hitting
It seems a little self-involved to be like, 'Oh, he's hitting on me.' Maybe he's just trying to start up an innocent conversation. Krista Allen