Self Quotes
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In order to love your enemies, you must begin by analyzing self.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.
Gerald Stanley Lee
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Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.
George Eliot -
Being an atheist is like not owning a TV – completely rational, but best kept to one's self.
Barrett Brown -
Every time you have a major breakthrough in self-knowledge, and see the way the divine works within your own psyche, external events, and interior experiences of the divine, you are transformed in some degree.
Thomas Keating -
Love of self comes first. The one who loves everybody is the one who does not love anyone.
Elijah Muhammad -
My main interest... is the love of truth, whether pleasant or not. Truth is self-sufficient, and there is nothing to which it can be subordinated without loss. When truth is made subservient to anything else, however great (say religion), it becomes impure and sordid.
George Sarton
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What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.
Diane Ackerman -
Realize thy Simple Self, Embrace thy Original Nature.
Lao Tzu -
The Prophet Joseph Smith warned us to ‘beware of self-righteousness’ and to enlarge our hearts toward all men and women until we feel ‘to take them upon our shoulders.
Neil L. Andersen -
Denying self isn't a one-time thing, but a daily task.
Trip Lee -
Once beyond the self, however, holiness is no longer possible, because now, there is nothing left to give and no-one left to do the giving.
Bernadette Roberts -
A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
Virginia Woolf
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If one's sense of self is obtained through the eyes of another it is always subject to being lost.
Brenda Shoshanna -
Comparison is an act of violence against the self.
Iyanla Vanzant -
Since childhood, I've been a clown. I've always liked being very funny or trying to make people laugh. It's my original self.
Bad Bunny -
I think the wish to disassociate from the cult of self is a good human impulse
Christopher Ricks -
Discover that we are capable of solitary joy and having experienced it, know that we have touched the core of self.
Barbara Lazear Ascher -
Thoroughly to believe in one's own self, so one's self were thorough, were to do great things.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Is there anything more self-defeating than using technology to free up your time - so that you can learn how to do an even better job at it?
Evgeny Morozov -
I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is.
Walt Whitman -
The Self awakens only as he contacts the Earth.
Dane Rudhyar -
...as far as self-discipline goes, it's still ultimately up to me how well I can push myself. Only I can do that. I just have to keep on going, keep on working, keep on improving.
Sheryl Swoopes