Self Quotes
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Lend.” “Lend?” Raquel asked. “Yes, as in, lend me your self.” He shimmered into Raquel again. “Why not Borrow?” I asked. “Better yet, Steal?
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Being an atheist is like not owning a TV – completely rational, but best kept to one's self.
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It reminds me that those of us who turn in disgust from what we consider an overinflated liberal-bourgeois sense of self should be careful what we wish for: our denuded networked selves don't look more free, they just look more owned.
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True friendship is self-love at second-hand.
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Let this point therefore stand: that those whom the Holy Spirit has inwardly taught truly rest upon Scripture, and that Scripture itself is self-authenticated. . . . Therefore, illumined by his power, we believe neither by our own nor by any one else's judgment that Scripture is from God; but above human judgment we affirm with utter certainty (just as if we were gazing upon the majesty of God himself) that it has flowed to us from the very mouth of God by the ministry of men.
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Many people who excel are self-taught.
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One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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I think the wish to disassociate from the cult of self is a good human impulse
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Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.
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Shadows are where magic comes from. Your dark and dancing self, slipping behind and ahead and around, never quite looking at the sun.
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A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
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Somebody once told me that self-punishment is worse than any other punishment.
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When one becomes for an instant one's former self, that is to say different from what one has been for some time past, one's sensibility, being no longer dulled by habit, receives from the slightest stimulus vivid impressions which make everything that has preceded them fade into insignificance, impressions to which, because of their intensity, we attach ourselves with the momentary enthusiasm of a drunkard.
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I want to embrace my full self, as natural as I can be.
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The best discipline, maybe the only discipline that really works, is self- discipline.
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It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
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I think it's fair to say we're both in the business of self-obliteration through music.
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The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all
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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.
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The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.
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Our competition in life is solely with our old self.
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Comparison is an act of violence against the self.
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Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.
