Self Quotes

The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.

Tariq Ramadan
- Process
- Self
- Meaning
There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.

Demosthenes
- Great
- Thinking
- Deals

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
- Up
- Feeling
- Psychology
Be yourself, but always your better self.

Karl G. Maeser
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
- Up
- Man
- Underdog
Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.

Patanjali
Self praise is no praise at all.

Lord Byron
- Self
- Praise
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
- Self
- Race
- Actions