Self Quotes
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To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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Bodybuilding is an art, your body is the canvas, weights are your brush and nutrition is your paint. We all have the ability to turn a self portrait into a masterpiece.
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The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
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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.
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As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.
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I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator.'
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The cause of suffering is that the unbounded Self is overshadowed by the world.
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I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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Start taking your SELF to the next level so you can take your SUCCESS to the next level. It only happens in that order.
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Each moss, Each shell, each drawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who fram'd This scale of beings; holds a rack which, lost Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which Nature's self would rue.
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History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we have to get to know ourselves better.
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That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.
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There is no more reason to accuse ourselves excessively of our failings than to excuse them overmuch. He who goes overboard in self-criticism often does so in order not to suffer others' criticisms, or else does so out of a kind of vanity that wishes to make others believe that he knows how to confess his faults.
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My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside... the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul.
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The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.
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Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that.
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Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
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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.
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Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our greatest challenge: the self, the ego, in our own eyes and as others see us.
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Wherever I go, people are so kind and so lovely and so warm and show their best self. So I feel very lucky.
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If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
