Self Quotes - Page 16

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no self left to die.

Bernard Berenson

A show of envy is an insult to oneself.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Maturity consists of no longer being taken in by oneself.

Kajetan von Schlaggenberg

Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.

To penetrate one's being one must go armed to the teeth.

Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings.

William Shakespeare

Self-reverence self-knowledge self-control - these three alone lead to sovereign power.

Alfred

There are limits to self-indulgence none to self-restraint.

The important thing is not what they think of me it is what I think of them.

Victoria

I think Dostoevsky was right that every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture where he says this is me and the damned world can go to hell.

Rollo May

O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us. It wad frae money a blunder free us And foolish notion.

Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors or to see themselves as others see them.

Logan Pearsall Smith

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

Michel de Montaigne

We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of self.

We judge ourselves by our motives and others by their actions.

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Goethe said there would be little left of him if you were to discard what he owed to others.

Charlotte Cushman

Be yourself. Who else is better qualified?

Frank J. Giblin

I don't think anyone is free - one creates one's own prison.

Graham Sutherland

I am I plus my circumstances.

Josi Ortega y Gasset

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Eleanor Roosevelt

There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

I am as bad as the worst but thank God I am as good as the best.

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope without friends without books even without music as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

If you really do put a small value upon yourself rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

Anonymous

If I am not for myself who will be?

The greatest success is successful self-acceptance.

Ben Sweet

Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

Self-respect is the root of discipline: the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Abraham J. Heschel

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

A sick man that gets talking about himself a woman that gets talking about her baby and an author that begins reading out of his own book never know when to stop.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered it is something moulded.

Antoine De Saint Exupery

Egotism: the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

Every one is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.

Phaedrus

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

G. C. Lichtenberg

If you can't bite don't show your teeth.

Know him know me.

Dizzy Gillespie

No man does anything from a single motive.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nobody can honestly think of himself as a strong character because however successful he may be in overcoming them he is necessarily aware of the doubts and temptations that accompany every important choice.

What the collective age wants allows and approves is the perpetual holiday from the self.

When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain?

Rainer Maria Rilke

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.

George Santayana

With every physical pain my moral fibre unravels a little.

Re-mind yourself who you are and Re-member you are already a conqueror!

You do not truly know yourself until you have learned to appreciate others.

Unknown

We all have an innate feeling of being separate from the world, peering out at life from behind our own little self. But how can we truly be separate from the same world that created us? You can no more disconnect from the universe and it's inhabitants than a wave can extricate itself from the ocean.

Who am I? The great inquiry indeed.

Yogananda Paramhansa

Enjoy being you. Have fun. And be different.

One thing I learned in life, the only true friend you have in this world is your self.

Auliq-Ice

Great spirit, Great soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I am diagonally parked among the vertically parallel people of this horizontal universe.

Vikrmn

Self-struggle is spiritual.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I? This is the very root of all evil.

Don’t force your gifts: if you are a rascal, live like one; if you are half honest, be half honest; if you are completely honest, live absolutely honestly.

Pierre Ceresole

I wondered what it would be like to be just myself all the time, but my self seemed to be far away, and made up of all sorts of things that didn't really exist.

You speak as if this is a good world with a little evil in it. Rubbish. It's a hellish one where the best a man can do is put a little sanity back and look after his own.

There was a difference, I had decided, between knowing and believing. And I wanted both.

We sit to make life meaningful. The significance of our life is not experienced in striving to create some perfect thing. We must simply start with accepting ourselves. Sitting brings us back to actually who and where we are. This can be very painful. Self-acceptance is the hardest thing to do. If we can’t accept ourselves, we are living in ignorance, this darkest night. We may still be awake, but we don’t know where we are. We cannot see. The mind has no light. Practice is this candle in our very darkest room.

Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi

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