Quotes about self
self over-you conformity
You have mourned over others; now sit down for a while and weep over your own self. Rumi
self grace mastery
Let's ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace.
selfish leader gains
The selfish leader will attempt to lead others for their own gain and for the detriment of others. Tom Peters
self-esteem lying grace
Self-esteem is for sissies. Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it. That way lies grace - and maybe even glory. Tom Robbins
self unhappy-person unhappiness
Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.
self people giving
For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as something other than a whoop-de-doo playground, we start to experience personally how threatening it can be, how cruel and unjust. At the very moment when we become, for the first time, both introspective and socially conscientious, we receive the bad news that the world, by and large, doesn't give a rat's ass.
self seductive political
Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal of rearranging one's perceptions and transforming one's self.
self roots people
All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.
self greed ego
Throughout most of our history, nothing - not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons - has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as the narcissistic ego, with its self-aggrandizing presumptions and its hell-hound spawn of fear and greed.
self wicked excuse
Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow. Stephen Schwartz
self watches vices
Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick? Stephen Fry
self expression people
I like people who are as unlike me as possible, which is not an expression of self disgust or self hatred, but it's just that you know you obviously particularly admire things that you recognize yourself as not having.
self people who-you-are
You are who you are when nobody's watching.
self perfection saint
Perfection consists in one thing alone, which is doing the will of God. For, according to Our Lord's words, it suffices for perfection to deny self, to take up the cross and to follow Him. Now who denies himself and takes up his cross and follows Christ better than he who seeks not to do his own will, but always that of God? Behold, now, how little is needed to become as Saint? Nothing more than to acquire the habit of willing, on every occasion, what God wills. St. Vincent
self indulge-in tools
However great the work that God may achieve by an individual, he must not indulge in self-satisfaction. He ought rather to be all the more humbled, seeing himself merely as a tool which God has made use of.
self-esteem esteem
Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most. St. Jerome
self realisation seekers
Some seekers will do anything for their Self-realisation - except work for it. Sri Chinmoy
self goal transcendence
Our goal is self-transcendence
self inspire humanity
Individual self-transcendence collectively inspires humanity at large.
self giving cry
What gives life its value if not its constant cry for self-transcendence?
self speech flawless
To be free from all egoistic motive, careful of truth in speech and action, void of self-will and self-assertion, watchful in all things, is the condition for being a flawless servant. Sri Aurobindo
self mindfulness would-be
But what after all, behind appearance, is the seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself, returning to itself, emerging out of its giant self-forgetfulness, slowly, painfully, as a life that is would-be sentient, to be more than sentient, to be again divinely self-conscious, free, infinite, immortal.
self mind body
The supramental transformation, the supramental evolution must carry with it a lifting of mind, life and body out of themselves into a greater way of being in which yet their own ways and powers would be, not suppressed or abolished, but perfected and fulfilled by the self-exceeding.
self infinite highest
Either consciously or unconsciously we are searching for the highest Self, which is at once eternal and infinite.
self optimism secret
Optimism is the secret of self-reliance. Self-reliance is the secret of a dynamic power. A dynamic power is the secret of an immediate success.
self soul doubt
At last He is healed of his self-doubt. Now what is happening ? He is awakening To his souls ecstasy-sun.
self giving joy
The joy of a self-giving life Can neither be measured Nor be expounded.
self mind intellectual
God can be seen Even by the poorest fool, But not by the self-styled, God-arguing Intellectual giants.
self rivers joy
True inner joy is self-created It does not rely on any outer circumstances A river is flowing in and through you carrying the message of joy. This divine joy is the sole purpose of life.
self soul lovers
There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved. The aspiring soul which he embodies is the lover in him. And the transcendental Self which he reveals from within is his Beloved.
self envy finding-happiness
Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
self civilization people
Most people are shaped to the form of their culture because of the enormous malleability of their original endowment. They are plastic to the moulding force of the society into which they are born. It does not matter whether, with the Northwest Coast, it requires delusions of self-reference, or with our own civilization the amassing of possessions. In any case the great mass of individuals take quite readily the form that is presented to them. Ruth Benedict
self expression class
The self is the class (not the collection) of the experiences (or autopsychological states). The self does not belong to the expression of the basic experience, but is constructed only on a very high level. Rudolf Carnap