Self Quotes - Page 5

Grumbling is the death of love.

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.

Who you are is too vast to be captured by the reflection of a mirror, classified by the state of your attitude, or categorized by the opinions of others. Therefore, if any of these are defining you, you have yet to be defined.

When I became too much myself, I had to change my life.

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem the more likely one will treat others with respect kindness and generosity. People who do not experience self-love have little or no capacity to love others.

In terms of days and moments lived, you’ll never again be as young as you are right now, so spend this day, the youth of your future, in a way that deflects regret. Invest in yourself. Have some fun. Do something important. Love somebody extra. In one sense, you’re just a kid, but a kid with enough years on her to know that every day is priceless. (418)

Do you really know yourself so well or are you making it up?' she asks. Some things I concoct, some I glean from my senses, most I thirst for.

When the fight begins within himself a man's worth something.

One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies. “They’re straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won’t die.

The [true] intellectual is he who does not let harm done to others and nor let any harm done to even one's own self.

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble but [we do know] it is our sacred duty.

To become God (Khuda) one does not need weapons. One needs to recognize his [True] Self (Khud). The one who knows one’s own Self (khud), is God (khuda).

Only you can save yourself.

To discover the exact location of a 'thing' is a simple matter of factual research. To discover the exact location of a person: where to locate the self?

Your father used to say "Never give away your work. People don't value what they don't have to pay for."

The precept "Know yourself " was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind but likewise that we might understand our own worth.

The discipline gave me a sense of achievement. Not least, fasting is a test of willpower and, whenever I felt my willpower weakening, I would tell myself that I could eat as much as I wanted after sunset. But then the strange thing was that after fasting all day long, I tended to feel full with just a small snack.

I closed my eyes and turned my face into the cold wind. When I felt it swept along my skin there was no past. No future. Just now.

Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-improvement.

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything.

Most of us have nicknames—annoying, endearing, embarrassing.But what about your true

With jealousy, a parasite takes root in your heart. It becomes a cancer that eats away at your soul.

We fail to see the oneness of all things, and because of this, we unknowingly cause a lot of harm to ourselves. We pollute the Earth that we live on, cut down the trees that produce our oxygen, destroy the ecosystems of nature and the animals that maintain them, and we mistreat and harm each other, thinking that these destructive actions will not have a direct effect on us.

Kill the snake of doubt in your soul crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.

Despair is criminal.

Rulers are not anointed. They are created by the void of self-mastery.

He who conquers others is strong he who conquers himself is mighty.

A little kingdom I possess Where thoughts and feelings dwell And very hard the task I find Of governing it well.

It is a full-time job to cope with alien elements from both interpersonal sources and societal influences.

What frightened me most was, I could no longer believe in my own life as a story. Everyone needs a story, a part to play in order to avoid the realization that life is without significance. How else do any of us survive? It’s what makes life bearable, even interesting. When it becomes neither, people say you’ve lost the plot. Or just lost it.

Thus the perception of the infinite is somehow prior in me to the perception of the finite, that is, my perception of God is prior to my perception of myself. For how would I understand that I doubt and that I desire, that is, that I lack something and that I am not wholly perfect, unless there were some idea in me of a more perfect being, by comparison with which I might recognize my defects?

I got the blues thinking of the future so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges or scrub the floor.

I will write of him who fights and vanquishes his sins who struggles on through weary years against himself ... and wins.

I don't follow precedent I establish it.

Wherever you go, there you are.

You are unique and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost.

How I relate to my inner self influences my relationships with all others. My satisfaction with myself and my satisfaction with other people are directly proportional.

Aside from myself, there was no sign of me.

The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides.

The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.

Compare yourself only with the word of God.

Dance with your sacred rhythm.

I want to earn more money but my body says "I'm tired," and my spirit says "I have no desire," whoever said "I'm not a trinity" is a complete liar!

Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself-in fact till it does that it hardly is experience.

A Coy Aversion...a fluttertoo shyto be seen...

It's difficult to become someone you don't know at all. It's difficult, indeed, to become yourself.

I never really grew up until I had kids.

There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.

I refuse to GROW UP............................Grow up to be what the World expects me to be..

I refuse to try to explain everything because if you know too much about yourself you become impotent. Better not to know what it is that makes you tick.

These ideas fit the experience of these Japanese women who often talked about searching for or trying to develop "self" (jibun). Cultivating or polishing self by doing tea ceremony or being a good mother, for example, had a good connotation for the Japanese because it meant that you were trying to go beyond your narrow self and connect self with the larger world beyond social norms. But developing self in the new way these women used it meant to develop self according to just what you want to do or in a way that enhances your own possibilities in the world. Would others see choosing a life for self as selfish? These women had to maintain some ambiguity because they were wandering into dangerous territory when they wanted to travel just to enjoy themselves, or keep working and not marry. In a society that honored the cultivation of a larger self, would they themselves someday suffer for having chosen the self-centered way?

You can always tell the heart of man by what he do, and by what he don't do...

There are so many things in this world. If we put it in short (succinctly), then what will remain? The ‘pure Soul’ and ‘circumstances’. Moreover, to disperse is the nature of circumstances. Therefore, the Pure Soul will not have to tell them to go away.

We are spiritual children of God the Father. We preach it. We sing it. But do we really understand it? Sometimes it’s easy to tell others they are loved, but not so easy to believe it of ourselves — not because we don’t think God loves His children, but because we may feel undeserving of His love. The adversary loves to remind us who we are not. Not pretty. Not smart. Not strong. But God would not have sacrificed His Son to save us if we aren’t worth saving.

Self-pity is one of the most dangerous forms of self-centeredness. It fogs our vision.

There are no old people nowadays they are either "wonderful for their age" or dead.

Some people need significance more than they need another person. Change will only happen in a relationship when you realize it is not the person, but the "emotion" you desire.

If you go to Jesus to get a new personality, Lewis says, you still haven't really gone to Jesus. Your real self will not come out as long as you are looking for it; it will only emerge when you're looking for Him.

I'm not even who I am, yet.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.