Self Quotes
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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 burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
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Self satisfaction alone cannot determine if a desire or action is positive or negative. The demarcation between a positive and a negative desire or action is not whether it gives you a immediate feeling of satisfaction, but whether it ultimately results in positive or negative consequences.
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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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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.
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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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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves.
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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.
