Quotes about self
self realization scripture
Self-realization is the object of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures. Mahatma Gandhi
self toil habit
A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.
self certainty-of-death play
We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves. James Thurber
self taught-us worry
But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a weak deterrent to corporate malfeasance. James Surowiecki
self people legacy
Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.
selfish hero giving
I had to give him props, but how annoying of him to be a hero when I was trying so hard to dislike him. It was downright selfish. James Patterson
self promise want
Now that we were alone,i was self-conscious and cranky again.Why had i wanted to stay?if i had been programmed to want to be with dylan,heads were gonna roll,i promise you that.
self two fiction
I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my personal life off-limits; rather, the personal life I put on display was a blend of fact and fiction. James McGreevey
self vices harbors
A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love. James Mackintosh
self psychology development
The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology. James Mark Baldwin
self two consciousness
In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.
self people leader
Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership. James MacGregor Burns
self house brain
One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted— One need not be a House— The Brain — has Corridors — surpassing Material Place— Far safer, of a Midnight — meeting External Ghost— Than an Interior — Confronting— That cooler — Host. Far safer, through an Abbey — gallop— The Stones a'chase— Than Moonless — One's A'self encounter— In lonesome place— Ourself — behind ourself — Concealed— Should startle — most.... Emily Dickinson
self self-love world
Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell. Emanuel Swedenborg
self want obsessed
I just don't want to be self-obsessed. Ellen Pompeo
selfish giving drug
I just love it so much [acting]. When I get passionate, I’ll give you everything until I collapse. That’s not in any ’Look at me, I’m a saint’ kind of way. It’s very selfish in a way. I’m doing this really awesome exploration, and it’s like a drug, because I completely disappear. Ellen Page
self empowering example
I just used to love the sound of especially a female vocal like Ella Fitzgerald for example, it's just that empowering self-control that can make a whole room go silent. I fell in love with that sound. Ella Henderson
self giving judging
Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly. Ella Maillart
self ego favors
This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self. Edward de Bono
selfish selfless sometimes
Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless. Edward Albert
self doubt talent
Self-doubt kills talent. Edie McClurg
self who-i-am levels
On the deepest level, what I know for sure is that who I am, essentially, is consciousness and consciousness is timeless and it transcends the body; it transcends the psychological "me," the egoic self. Everybody can know themselves as consciousness. Eckhart Tolle
self get-away
Can't get away from your own self. Holly Black
self difficult wanted
I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult? Hermann Hesse
self fire mind
The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire.
self voice judging
The judge who sits over the murderer and looks into his face, and at one moment recognizes all the emotions and potentialities and possibilities of the murderer in his own soul and hears the murderer's voice as his own, is at the next moment one and indivisible as the judge, and scuttles back into the shell of his cultivated self and does his duty and condemns the murderer to death.
self errors siddhartha
One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.
self years proud
Was it not his Self, his small, fearful and proud Self, with which he had wrestled for so many years, but which had always conquered him again, which appeared each time again and again, which robbed him of happiness and filled him with fear?
self excellence doe
Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.
self intellectual mind
To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable for the want of intellectual power. Whenever Nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
self intuition way
The subliminal self is in no way inferior to the conscious self. It knows how to choose and to divine. Henri Poincare
self class understanding
Ive had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect. Henrik Ibsen
self differences
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?