Self Quotes
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Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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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
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
Baruch Spinoza
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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
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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
Rabindranath Tagore
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In hindsight, if I could go back in time and relay a message to my younger self, I would tell him to work on his time keeping, and that the job of a drummer is not to be the one that gets noticed the most on stage, or to be the fastest, or the loudest. Above all, it is to be the timekeeper.
Taylor Hawkins
Foo Fighters
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
Ramana Maharshi
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I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
Ira Glass
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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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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
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The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fascinate, elude and confuse me.
Samantha Harvey
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I have never known a really chic woman whose appearance was not, in large part, an outward reflection of her inner self.
Mainbocher
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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
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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
Salman Rushdie
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Down on the ground, we seem to do anything but make lengthy, robust monologues. We can communicate in an instant almost anywhere. Gone is the slow old letter - itself a monologue, a sort of considered performance of best self - and in its place is the e-mail, the text, the SMS, the tweet.
Samantha Harvey
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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
