Top 100 No Self Quotes
#1. There is giving, and there is knowingness. Some have generosity and compassion but no true knowledge. Some have knowledge but no self-sacrifice. When both are present, that person is blessed and prosperous. Such a being is truly incomparable.
Rumi
#2. But you are never the same once you have acquired the knowledge that there is no self that will not crumble. We are told to learn self-reliance, but it's tricky if you have no self on which to rely.
Andrew Solomon
#4. I wanted to wipe the grin off his face with a fist. I resisted the urge. Who says I have no self-control?
Laurell K. Hamilton
#5. True love goes ever straight forward, not in its own strength, but esteeming itself as nothing. Then indeed we are truly happy. The cross is no longer a cross when there is no self to suffer under it.
Francois Fenelon
#6. (N)ever apportion blame. How can there be opponents or rivals or even "others" when there is no "self" in the first place?
Elif Shafak
#7. There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual
James Russell Lowell
#8. I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#9. To be happy is easy enough if we give ourselves, forgive others, and live with thanksgiving, No self centered person, no ungrateful soul can ever be happy, much less make anyone else happy. Life is giving, not getting.
Joseph Fort Newton
#10. Attraction and aversion create a sense of self. There is no self. They are just thoughts. They are insubstantial. When you die, all the ideas of self will go away.
Frederick Lenz
#11. All things arise when the appropriate conditions are present, and all things pass away as conditions change. Behind the process, there is no "self" who is running the show.
Joseph Goldstein
#12. You're such a stalker, Seth. How long were you standing there?"
"I am not a stalker, and I was standing there long enough to realize you have no self-control and you're unstable. I kind of like that about you - mainly because I find it entertaining.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#13. For the Christian, humility is absolutely indispensable. Without it there can be no self-knowledge, no repentance, no faith and no salvation.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#14. Don't look now, but that's my ex over there."
Surely I'm not the only one who takes "don't look now" as "there's no better time than now." I looked.
"Bad, Ali!" Another slap to my arm. "Bad, bad, bad Ali! Have you no self control?
Gena Showalter
#15. I block the internet because I'm a two-year-old and have no self-control. I don't even look at email or hop on the internet. Once I'm down that rabbit hole, the day is lost. Again, I'm two.
Darynda Jones
#16. Sexuality, for the person who practices tantra, is a marvelous way to experience illusion. Illusion is just another way of seeing things. There are no illusions because there is no self.
Frederick Lenz
#17. A complete life may be one ending in so full identification with the non-self that there is no self to die.
Bernard Berenson
#18. We used to be Kings now we are beggars. We used to be leaders, now we are dogs We used to be fathers now we are sperm donors. Now we have nothing. No dignity, no honor and no self respect..
Jill Thrussell
#19. I think I would have drank myself to death, literally, if I didn't just stop, once and for all when I did. I am not ever going to preach to anyone about drugs or drinking. But, for me, when they were around, I had no self control.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#20. It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
Camryn Manheim
#21. Could hell be a place where there is no self-respect? A place where people have no pride in their own existence or behavior, and thus would have none for anyone or anything else?
Neil Peart
#22. The way you become happy is by realizing that there is no self. No self at all, not a silly millimeter of self. You don't exist. When you know this, you will be happy.
Frederick Lenz
#23. Sharon looked at Aaron and smiled. She'd made the right decision, hadn't she? Would she come to regret this decision too? She'd made so many mistakes in the past. Was this another one? No, self-doubt isn't an option. Everything is going to work out here. It has to.
Tamara Hoffa
#24. There is no real separation between self or no-self. Anything you do for yourself you do for the society at the same time. And anything you do for society you do for yourself also.
Nhat Hanh
#25. The emptiness of play is when there is no self present. There is no one playing - there is only play itself taking place, perfect fluid motion.
Frederick Lenz
#26. According to the virginity movement, men have no self-control when it comes to anything sexual.
Jessica Valenti
#27. When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense.
Frank Herbert
#28. A society that is all self-interest and no comradeship is not a society at all. But a society that is all comradeship and no self-interest is also not a society; it is a sect - or, on the largest scale, totalitarianism.
Meir Soloveichik
#29. I'm Jerry Lawler, I make fun of women because I have no self-esteem.
Santino Marella
#30. No self-effort in the direction of enlightenment is ever wasted. Even if you don't become fully enlightened in a given lifetime, you will be much happier and more aware.
Frederick Lenz
#31. no self-respecting extraterrestrial would ever pick my hometown of Beaverton, Oregon - aka Yawnsville, USA - as their point of first contact.
Ernest Cline
#32. I had a terrible marriage the first time around because I had no self-confidence, even though I had tremendous self-confidence.
Lynn Johnston
#33. You can hit a home run. If you are honest, you'll know when it's perfect because at that critical moment of connection, there was no sense of being there. That is perfect play. There is no self involved.
Frederick Lenz
#34. If I ever got sloppy and maudlin, it would be for the streets of my childhood - but no self- respecting writer should ever eulogize a slum ...
John Geddes
#35. The man who has no self-respect, on the contrary, will imitate anybody and anything; sounds of nature and cries of animals alike; his whole performance will be imitation of gesture and voice.
Plato
#36. No celebrity bullshit,no self promotion,an amazingly gifted player who remained an unaffected human being
Roy Keane
#37. Like the medieval cartographers of Europe, who felt one would fall into endless space at the edges of the oceans of their maps, we fear the presumed nothingness of no-self. Fortunately, there have been many spiritual circumnavigators who have returned to tell the tale of the beauty beyond self.
Kathleen Dowling Singh
#38. [A person], having no self-respect, needs and demands a show of public respect.
Robert A. Heinlein
#39. What is self? Self is the mind viewing itself. That's all. The mind stops viewing itself and turns towards infinity. There is no self, there's only infinity.
Frederick Lenz
#40. He was no prude, but he had those decent prejudices of which no self-respecting man can wholly rid himself, however broad-minded he may try to be.
P.G. Wodehouse
#41. I'm not tempted by things I've decided are off-limits, but once I've started something, I have trouble stopping. If I never do something, it requires no self-control for me; if I do something sometimes, it requires enormous self-control.
Gretchen Rubin
#42. Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can.
Jane Siberry
#43. The ancient human question 'Who am I?' leads inevitably to the equally important question 'Whose am I?' - for there is no self outside of relationship.
Parker J. Palmer
#44. The reason I could fit in with so many different kinds of people was that I had no self. And then the problem is, if you don't have a self, how can you be with other people? Who the hell are you with them?
Leigh Newman
#45. No self-respecting mother would run out of intimidations on the eve of a major holiday.
Erma Bombeck
#46. No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still trying to live down.
David Copperfield
#47. A shy man no doubt dreads the notice of strangers, but can hardly be said to be afraid of them. He may be as bold as a hero in battle, and yet have no self-confidence about trifles in the presence of strangers.
Charles Darwin
Susan Cain
#48. If he can be call'd meek
who has no wishes
or hiding who needs never
be found
or scared who never
attacks
forgotten, who watches up
the night
If he can be called "he,"
who has no self
Writes "One is All"
On every wall.
Jack Kerouac
#49. No sentimentality, no romance, no false hope, no self-petting lies, merely that which is!
Sheri S. Tepper
#50. Frustration is actually a self-served phenomenon, which happens due to no self-control or confidence.
Mohith Agadi
#51. No self-respecting bird in good health would allow its feathers to look ruffled. No confident cougar would let its fur long remain matted and dirty.
Terry Goodkind
#52. There is no self. There is nobody home. No forwarding address, no zip code. Address unknown.
Frederick Lenz
#53. Over dinner, I had agreed to be her paladin, and no self-respecting paladin would decide on a course of action based on a majority vote of a committee of two.
Dean Koontz
#54. It is a wretched thing that the young men of today are so contriving and so proud of their material posessions. Men with contriving hearts are lacking in duty. Lacking in duty, they will have no self-respect.
Tsunetomo Yamamoto
#55. There's great sadness and life doesn't work out like you would want, on a lot of levels, but there's no need to feel all alone. This happens to everybody, so there's no self-pity. This is the ride that humans are on, and all of it is essential for our natural part of it.
Mike Mills
#56. We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#57. In the World of Reality there is no self, There is no other-than-self.
Sengcan
#58. To having no self esteem to feeling wonderful about yourself doing what you love to do and making the money that you want to be making. That is my contribution to humanity.
John Assaraf
#59. I have no self-centeredness or ego about being a movie star.
Shah Rukh Khan
#60. Life is miraculous, even in its suffering. Without suffering, life would not be possible. There is nothing permanent, and there is no separate self. Neither is there impermanence or no-self. When we see life deeply, there is no death. Therefore, it isn't necessary to say everlasting life.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#61. What can you give when there is no self, when you have no sensitivity, no receptivity, no warmth, nothing to contact others with?
Anais Nin
#62. That's a Christian concept. No self-respecting witch would worship a Christian god of evil.
Katherine Kurtz
#63. Even if men admit they are cowards, they still want to be saved. There is no "harmonious development," no child-rearing program, no self-reliance that would take away from men their need for a "beyond" on which to base the meaning of their lives.
Ernest Becker
#64. A GOOD man values his INTEGRITY and CHARACTER. NEVER deal with one that has no SELF RESPECT!
L. Michelle
#65. No self-respecting zombie would be caught dead smoking.
Diana Rowland
#66. No self-respecting God would allow a good man to be happy for long. God has relevance only in the unhappiness of good people.
Anand Neelakantan
#67. All fear is ultimately fear of no-self.
Jed McKenna
#68. Striking a woman was something weak men did; men with little moral fibre and no self-control. It was a coward's response to a situation. And
Steven A. McKay
#69. The deepest realization of meditation is that your being is a non-being. It is a nothing, a vast emptiness without boundaries. It is a no-self. The feeling of self, of "I" is false.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#70. Law firms can create environments for abusive relationships. This is especially true if an attorney has no self-direction, has no independent means of financial support, and has massive student loan indebtedness. You've basically made yourself an indentured servant.
Robin D. Hart
#71. We aren't anything in particular. There is no self. There are only ideas and states of mind.
Frederick Lenz
#72. No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors ... This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.
Erwin Schrodinger
#73. Apparently they died from overfeeding. Apparently I overfed them. Apparently fish are terrible glutons with absolutely no self-control who just don't know when they've had enough and will stuff themselves to death with those innocuous little beige flakes imaginatively labeled 'fish food.
Steve Toltz
#74. The other contested term is recovered memory therapy. As far as I can tell, no one practicsing psychotherapy today endorses this term as a descriptive of what they do... there are no self-described recovered memory therapists...
Richard J. McNally
#75. Then my life crashed and burned down: trials, men, drama, no self-love, no identity. A little identity, but not a lot of love for myself, my life.
Mary J. Blige
#76. Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self. Style is opinion, hung washing, the caliber of a bullet, teething beads.
Alexander Theroux
#77. There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#78. Defender of the liberty that I idolize, myself more free than anyone, in coming as a friend to offer my services to this intriguing republic, I bring to it only my frankness and my good will; no ambition, no self-interest; in working for my glory, I work for their happiness.
Marquis De Lafayette
#80. Do not imagine that an integral being has the ambition of enlightening the unaware or raising worldly people to the divine realm. To her, there is no self and other, and hence no one to be raised; no heaven and hell, and hence no destination.
Laozi
#81. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.
Og Mandino
#82. Shh ... You need discipline, you have no self-control.
Teresa Mummert
#83. Your problem is that you should like yourself better." Of course, he was right - but how could she like herself when she felt she had no self ?
Gloria Steinem
#84. No self-respecting person who loves humanity
or wishes for a world of greater equality and justice
should have anything to do with whitewashing the
slavery and extermination of Marxism-Leninism.
Anthony Gregory
#85. No self-respecting small businessman with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age.
Godfrey Bloom
#86. We are made up of nothing. There is no self. We are whatever we decide we are.
Frederick Lenz
#87. No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
Susan B. Anthony
#88. Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]
Cyril Connolly
#89. Therefore, Christ crucified is the foundation of all honest and everlast- ing joy. No self-deception is necessary to enjoy it. Indeed all deception must cease in order to enjoy it to the full.
John Piper
#90. There's no self-expression or joy in these joints
no springboard to self-discovery, or adventure, like any decent night out involving men, women, alcohol, and taking your clothes off. Why do many people have a gut reaction to strip clubs? Because inside them, no one is having fun.
Caitlin Moran
#91. No self-respecting criminal mastermind would be caught dead even using the word lollipops. He really would have to put together a database of witty responses for occasions such as this. It
Eoin Colfer
#92. Don't try to be unafraid. That is impossible. Rather, go ahead while being afraid. That is the entire secret for abolishing fear. The Supermind teaches us to have no self-concern at all. Whatever happens to you, act as though it happened to someone else.
Vernon Howard
#93. There can be no self-government without self-discipline. There can be no self-government without self-control. There can be no liberty unless it is grounded in moral discipline and the ability to do what is right.
Alan Keyes
#94. A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.
Jean-Francois Lyotard
#95. The infinite has being. It is there. If infinity had no self then self would not be. But it is. Therefore it has a self. The self of infinity is God.
Victor Hugo
#96. People who know no self-restraint lead stormy and disordered lives, passing their time in a state of fear commensurate with the injuries they do to others, never able to relax.
Seneca.
#97. No self-respecting cat wants to have its subtle personal odor masked by overtones of lavender or rose petals.
Nicholas Dodman
#98. Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning.
Aldous Huxley
#99. There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies.
Glen Cook
#100. Infinity is. It is there. If infinity had no self, the self would be its limit; it would not be infinite. In other words, it would not be. But it is. So it has a self. This self of infinity is God.
Victor Hugo
