Self Quotes
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Where self-interest is violently suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control which dries up the wellsprings of initiative and creativity.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.
Daniel Breaker -
Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.
Karl Jaspers -
When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.
Wayne Dyer -
There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.
Baltasar Gracian -
The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
Sam Harris -
That's a lovely starting point for me as an actor: the question of what will we - or can we - do with this lot of years with which we're blessed? More than my other films, 'The Danish Girl' is about the gigantic risks involved in being true to one's self.
Eddie Redmayne
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I am a complete, mature, self-sufficient being.
Frederick W. Taylor -
I would say both Western psychology and Eastern paths would recognize that we get caught up in feeling like a separate self and an unworthy self.
Tara Brach -
I would like to be known for honest, relatable writing and stories that that are real. There's just this shift I think is happening in a lot of society right now where being your most real self, however embarrassing or vulnerable or weird that is, is the coolest. I feel like that's what Lena Dunham's about and Amy Schumer's about.
Cam -
It is more important to have self-respect than to gain respect from others.
Madeleine de Scudery -
We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
Edna St. Vincent Millay -
A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.
Irving Babbitt
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
When mind is quiet, all is Self. When mind moves the world arises. So be Still, throw away everything and be Free.
H. W. L. Poonja -
Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.
Wayne Dyer -
But the conceit of one's self and the conceit of one's hobby are hardly more prolific of eccentricity than the conceit of one's money. Avarice, the most hateful and wolfish of all the hard, cool, callous dispositions of selfishness, has its own peculiar caprices and crotchets. The ingenuities of its meanness defy all the calculations of reason, and reach the miraculous in subtlety.
Edwin Percy Whipple -
Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.
William Nicholson -
If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.
Orla Brady
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Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.
T. H. White -
To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.
Abu Bakr -
There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.
Eben Alexander -
I'm a novelist, a critic, an essayist - I tend to see politics as a subset of cultures rather than the other way around. It's a human enterprise, a tool or a technology revealing our collective inner self.
Walter Kirn