Self Quotes
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The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.
M. Scott Peck -
The Self of everyone, the Atma of everyone, the transcendental field of reality of everyone, is the same in everyone. Whether the body calls itself an American, German, Indian or Chinese, it doesn't matter.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all sort of things. I'm a sort of genre-free recording artist - classics and romances, I just finished a sci-fi book, self help... just all kinds of things.
Barbara Rosenblat -
I've never read a self help book... the most self-help I've read is on a beer mat.
Ophelia Lovibond -
Reverence is the sense that there is something larger than the self, larger even than the human, to which one accords respect and awe and assent.
Ursula Goodenough -
Be that self which one truly is.
Soren Kierkegaard -
Self-centered anger generates evil, but wrath at social injustice becomes the driving force for reform. Strong language that censures and combats a great evil often awakens adverse reactions from society, but this must not intimidate those who believe they are right. A lion is a lion because he roars.
Daisaku Ikeda -
It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.
Halle Berry
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The point of life is to transcend the smallness of the finite self by identifying with things that last.
Larry Brilliant -
I try not get too self-aware when writing lyrics.
Edwin Farnham Butler III Arcade Fire -
Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.
Ralph Marston -
There is such wonderful balm in self-imposed sacrifice.
Emma Orczy -
The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
Agnes Varda -
If you're going to self - publish, you need to know why you're doing it, what you want to accomplish, and how you plan to implement that.
Victoria Strauss
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Until we recognize the SELF that exists apart from who we think we are - we cannot know the Ch'an ( ZEN ) MIND
D. T. Suzuki -
The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.
Wayne Dyer -
It is wisest to be impartial. If you have health, but are attached to it, you will always be afraid of losing it. And if you fear that loss, but become ill, you will suffer. Why not remain forever joyful in the Self?
Paramahansa Yogananda -
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
Demosthenes -
New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role. And these pressures are bringing forward such traits as pleasure-mindedness, self-indulgence, materialism, and passivity as conspicuous elements of the American character.
Vance Packard -
When the healthy pursuit of self-interest and self-realizatio n turns into self-absorption , other people can lose their intrinsic value in our eyes and become mere means to the fulfillment of our needs and desires.
P. M. Forni
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One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.
Albert Benjamin Simpson -
To me, a strong sense of self isn't believing in a lot.
Sam Shepard -
Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.
Rita Mae Brown -
When I am dancing, it feels like my prayer. It's like an offering. I offer my head back to the dance, I offer my shoulders back to the dance, my elbows, my hands, my spine, my knees, my feet, my whole self, my bones, my blood, my experience, my suffering... I offer it all back to the dance and I say: take it, do whatever you want with me. Release me.
Gabrielle Roth