Self Quotes - Page 6

I think this is one bad side of a mirror; it helps us to see the reflection of the effects of our own actions on ourselves. We smile and it smiles back to us, we frown and it frowns to us. How I wish it shows us the reflections of the effects of our actions on other people as well so that we will be conscious!

An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too and that maketh him very wary.

False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.

You'll never understand me as long as you're looking at me through society's lenses.

Who cares about fault? As my dad would say, ‘Blame is like your rear-end and reflection. Seeing either always leaves you looking back.’ I’m more worried about what’s in front of me. And right now . . . the view is all messed up.” ~ Ellia

If there be a faith that can move mountains it is faith in one's own power.

May you discover your sacred-self.

You are surrounded by ignorance, savagery and fanaticism. You live in a society where everyone thinks he/she knows about everything in the whole universe. If you find yourself among those intellectual idiots, then being good and humble may give rise to doubts in your mind about your own ideas. So, you must first learn to distinguish between real and shallow intellect. Then, as a self- preservation tactic, you need to let your pretence of arrogance grow as big as a Dinosaur, so that the fake intellectuals start to realize their true inferiority in front of you.

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth as human truth all the maps change. There are new mountains.

Of all our infirmities the most savage is to despise our being.

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence over us. The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore.

The more a person is united within himself or herself and inwardly simple, the more and higher things he or she understands, because he or she receives the light of understanding from within.

I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway less burdened.

We only betray ourselves.

The greatest achievement is sacred-self-victory.

The challenge of modern freedom, or the combination of isolation and freedom which confronts you, is to make yourself up. The danger is that you may emerge from the process as a not-entirely-human creature.

There is no reality except the one contained within us.

What I am is what the LORD GOD has made of me.

Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a man deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost.

To know yourself you must know the transience of your self.

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

I am better than my reputation.

This witnessing consciousness, this formless dimension of yourself, is the awareness in which your experience happens, yet it remains untouched by this experience at all times. It is similar to the background of white on which you are reading these words. This white background allows any and every word to exist within it, yet it is not confined to any of these words. Similarly, your awareness allows any and every form to exist within it, but it is not bound to any of these forms.

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.

No man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.

Solitude is the spirituality of the soul.

You will create yourself with continuous self-education.

It occurred to Rosie that she couldn't hide either, even though the truth had been hidden from her. Now she was out from the shadows, out in the open for the first time in her life, standing in the harsh light.

Listen to your inner self, it knows you best.

I wash off the night in the water, my scrapes and aches numbed by the sea. My bones have become boughs, all scarred knees and gnarled kuckles. None of us are the same person we once were, since the human body replaces itself every seven years; there have been at least six different mes.

Awareness (of the Self) prevails in matters where one becomes attachment-free (vitrag), and where one has attachment-abhorrence, there his awareness will not prevail.

From self alone expect applause.

Every tub must stand on its own bottom.

The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.

I think I possess because I do not try to give,Trying to give, I see that I have nothing.

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.

When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all—because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and I play my appointed role as if I were in the movies.

The shortest short-term investment is to serve ourselves.

Self-serving mentality hinders from fulfilling kingdom mandate

On my fifteenth birthday, I came to realize that the expression spoiled rotten meant exactly that. We kids were the apples of our parents' eyes, and I, for one, was rotting from inside out.

We have to serve ourself many years before we gain our own confidence.

I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.

The best mask for demoralization is daring.

I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.

Strangers are never seen through a window. When our eyes are cast upon another, we are in fact gazing into the depths of a mirror. If you truly desire to understand how you feel about yourself, just take an honest look at how you view the world around you.

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself the day you stop making excuses that's the day you start your move to the top.

Preachers love only their own voices.

He who would be well taken care of must take care of himself.

We don't like to admit it, but the idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than almost anything. All truly civilized people – the ancients no less than us – have civilized themselves through the wilful repression of the old, animal self.

aphorism 90: I am incorrigible. I would have every object of the universe mechanically predictable but myself.

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken made verbal and shared even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage he won't encounter many rivals.

There is that gnawing feeling that we are far more than what we believe ourselves to be. Maybe it’s time to believe the gnawing.

And people turn to internet with the hope that in this virtual world, where real identity need not be disclosed, they will find someone before whom they could be their true self,without any pretensions and get an opportunity to release the pent-up emotions and feel light.

And remember: you must not overwork your body, or your soul. You must not enslave yourself, as you would not enslave any other person. You must be the custodian of your self.

And when you reach the place where this understanding overtakes you; that there is no one in the world that will ever love you with the force and power you can love yourself with. That no saviour in the form of a spouse or best friend is coming to make you complete and that you are your own saviour, your own best friend and perhaps the only saviour and best friend you will have, you will soar on wings of eagles and amazing things will happen.

Perhaps middle age is or should be a period of shedding shells the shell of ambition the shell of material accumulations and possessions the shell of the ego.

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.