Self Quotes - Page 24

At some point I hope to have grown sufficiently in both stature and wisdom to understand that I cannot deliver myself from myself, and that God alone can save me from me.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

In Hindu parlance he had 'realised the Self'; that is to say, he had realised by direct experience that nothing existed apart from an indivisible and universal consciousness which was experienced in its unmanifest form as beingness or awareness and in its manifest form as the appearance of the universe.

I’m a bit-part actor in my own life

If, to him, love was a celebration of one’s self and of existence—then, to the self-haters and life-haters, the pursuit of destruction was the only form and equivalent of love.

Ayn Rand

Love worth giving is love perfected on ourselves.

TemitOpe Ibrahim

He was himself, and he knew what he had been.

In the rare air of that altitude he forgot he was he. One way or another that was the aim of life. Shamans flew outside the self in ecstasy. Other people found love, or causes.

Solitude is the spirituality of the soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The biggest and loveliest miracle of today is you yourself!

The problem with holiness is that once we look into the face of it we are no longer capable of taking that which is odious and filthy and somehow pretending that it’s translucent and clean. In other words, we have to do one of the most revolting things possible; we have to face ourselves.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

The belief that personality is mysterious and irreducible has no scientific warrant, and is accepted chiefly because it is flattering to our human self esteem.

Bertrand Russell

I find myself in the moment of solitude.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Great faith, Great spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Grace-divine gives power for spirit of light to exist as a sacred-self.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Never give up on yourself.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Your life is a divine self.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Beware of your thoughts, for they are not YOU!

Ramana Pemmaraju

To live more for God and others one must die more to self and sin.

For the only slavery is desire, and he who learns to let go, to climb the wind-swept hills of self-becoming, naked of all possessions and desire, will drink the mountain air of freedom, and find the peace that lies not in the satisfaction but in the controlling of desire.

Christmas Humphreys

Keep experimenting, your divine self!

Lailah Gifty Akita

Only by externalization, by entering into social relationships, can we develop the interiority of our own person.

Jürgen Habermas

Hold tight to what is most yourself,Don't squander it, don't let your lifeBe governed by what disturbs you.

Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri

Charity: begins at home and remains there. When it goes out, it's because it wants to brag about itself

Bangambiki Habyarimana

The Devil loves it when we point fingers at Rome/ other Denominations and forget our very church. ''SELF''. while i scrutinize the Pope and his deeds. Let me trim my lamp. let me wash my robe. let me sweep my house being fully ready for my Lord's coming

Mary Tornyenyor

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

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.

On a morning like this, fear is a blue sky emptied of birds.

The things she said seemed to have very little relation to the last thing she had said a minute before. She was the sort of person, Tommy thought, who might know a great deal more than she chose to reveal.

Agatha Christie

An individual, a thing apart from its environment, and apart from all things in that environment; an individual was a type of thing for which symbols were inadequate, and so names were invented . I am invented. I am not a round warm blue room. I am someone in that room; I am—

Samuel R. Delany

Dance with your sacred rhythm.

Lailah Gifty Akita

To enter your true self,check your ego at the door.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

You are a sacred-being.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Darkness is a knife that peels away the rind of what you think you know about yourself. The shades of your pretenses, the tones of your illusions, the layers of deception that glaze your life into the colors that tint your world–all mean nothing in the darkness. No one can see them, not even you.Darkness hides everything except who you really are

Matthew Woodring Stover

If you keep finding yourself in the same situations, the Universe is prompting you to confront self! YOU are the common denominator.

You are precious and special possession of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

it feels nice to know about things and about oneself.

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

Egotism fears its own self.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Be good to yourself.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Normality does not exist. There is no such a thing as normal. The social norms that guide most people are not always normal for everyone. Behaviours and actions that are abnormal for most people may be considered normal for others, so therefore normality does not exist. Stay true to yourself; never be ashamed of doing what feels right to you at any giving moment, decide what feels right to you and do it. Don’t be normal, be yourself.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Who am I, when all I’ve ever believed myself to be, is fading before my very eyes?Am I still me, or just a shadow of what I used to be?Was I just an illusion that lived only in my head?Did I paint myself as something more than I really am?And with all these changes in my life… What will be left of the woman who dreamed her dreams?When all the colors that she wrapped herself with… are slowly being stripped away…Copyright © Eeva Lancaster

It was something he had always done - moved apart, so he could be alone and think things or a little.

Some of the pain released, and love filled the cleared space, uniting, magnetizing more self-love to it.

Don't expect anything except yourself.

Goitsemang Mvula

There's more than one way to be a person. Actually, there are more than two or three ways. You'd think that was obvious, but I find that often it is not. The world is essentially a collection of teams. Life is a process of deciding which ones we're going to join.

Righteousness gives strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Bless someone today, other than yourself

Charmaine J.Forde

The dancing Sun the dancing moon the dancing stars and the dancing galaxies are the direct expression of our divine Self.

Amit Ray

Once you can communicate with yourself, you'll be able to communicate outwardly with more clarity. The way in is the way out.

Thich Nhat Hanh

It is, of course, we who house poems as much as their words, and we ourselves must be the locus of poetry's depth of newness. Still, the permeability seems to travel both ways: a changed self will find new meanings in a good poem, but a good poem also changes the shape of the self.

Jane Hirshfield

Much self-condemnation, thus, is a cloak for arrogance. Those who think they overcome pride by condemning themselves could well ponder Spinoza's remark, 'One who despises himself is the nearest to a proud man'. In ancient Athens, when a politician was trying to get the votes of the working class by appearing very humble in a tattered coat with big holes in it, Socrates unmasked his hypocrisy by exclaiming, 'Your vanity shows forth from every whole in your coat'.

Rollo May

It’s as close to true freedom as I have come. Not freedom of, but freedom from; freedom from the debris of life that piles up and forces us to dig and dig for our original self, who we were once upon a time, innocent and wonderfully naïve, as authentically pure as a human can be.

Dan Groat

I still have a tendency to sit back and wait out the bad things that try and take over my life.

Dean Bakopoulos

The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light will not let me be.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

It took something massive to shatter a Mimic endo-skeleton in one hit. That it could kill me in the process was beside the point.

Hiroshi Sakurazaka

And if I forget how many times I have been here, and in how many shapes, this forgetting is the necessary interval of darkness between every pulsation of light. I return in every baby born.

If you have control over yourself, you have no desire to control others.

Miya Yamanouchi

Why should anyone be so grateful for acceptance unless he doubts that he is acceptable, and why should a young, educated and successful couple have such doubts, if not due to the fact that they cannot accept themselves because they are not themselves.

Indeed, with the experience of self disappears the experience of identity - and when this happens, man could become insane if he did not save himself by acquiring a secondary sense of self; he does that by experiencing himself as being approved of, worthwhile, successful, useful - briefly, as a salable commodity which is he because he is looked upon by others as an entity, not unique but fitting into one of the current patterns.

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