Self Quotes
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Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.
John Calvin -
There are four degrees of love: 1) Love of self for self's sake. 2) Love of God for self's sake. 3) Love of God for God's own sake. 4) Love of self for God's sake.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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Any material form, or thought, or feeling, past or present, should be regarded as, 'This is not mine, this is not what I am, this is not my self.'
Gautama Buddha -
Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Many people who excel are self-taught.
Herb Ritts -
Trust in your own self more than in all else.
Ernest Holmes -
Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.
Gautama Buddha -
Eroticism thrives in the space between the self and the other.
Esther Perel
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Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self.
Whit Burnett -
Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception.
Soren Kierkegaard -
There is always one thing to be grateful for - that one is one's self and not somebody else.
Emily Dickinson -
I shall gather myself into my self again, I shall take my scattered selves and make them one.
Sara Teasdale -
When we love God because we feel we should love Him, instead of genuinely loving out of our true selves, we have forgotten who God really is.
Francis Chan -
What can not be spoken to the mother cannot be told to the self.
Bessel van der Kolk
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I'm more interested in the psychic intricacies that they build up and try to run away from, and how they self-construct. A lot of my work is about self-construction. Here, it's those folks who are deeply wounded and bewildered. They're not just victims of trauma; they've been shaken so forcefully that they don't quite know how or where to stand.
Chang-Rae Lee -
Through adversity we find our better self.
Michelle Waterson -
Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.
Erwin McManus -
Some of them had hardly developed a sense of self—they couldn’t even recognize themselves in a mirror.
Bessel van der Kolk -
There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.
Carrie Fisher -
Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick?
Stephen Fry
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No self is of itself alone.
Erwin Schrodinger -
Now the stage today is to know that Self Realization gives you experiences and then your faith is established. Not blind but open enlightened faith.
Nirmala Srivastava -
Our sense of Self depends on being able to organize our memories into a coherent whole.
Bessel van der Kolk -
We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.
Rowan Williams