Top 100 Quotes About The Self
#1. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
G.K. Chesterton
#2. You know, life is not one in which you just get to choose the things every day that come easily to you. And it's also true - and this is the self-esteem problem - you learn that there are people who are better at things than you are.
Condoleezza Rice
#3. If only Nixon could go to China, only Obama can end the self-memorialization obsession that is presidential libraries - by not building such a shrine.
Anthony Clark
#4. I'm interested in the self. And in the limits and transformations of self. And in self presentation. And in doubt. And in playing with the audience's expectations. But I don't like dressing up like on Halloween.
Rachel Zucker
#5. Meditation is not a selfish thing. Even though you're diving in and experiencing the Self, you're not closing yourself off from the world. You're strengthening yourself, so that you can be more effective when you go back into the world.
David Lynch
#6. Live the Self that fills the whole Universe.
Kodo Sawaki
#7. Giving up all notions about country, caste, blemishless community,asrama (status as a bachelor, family man, ascetic or one who has renounced the world) and associated matters, hold on to and practise always meditation upon the Self, your own natural state.
Ramana Maharshi
#8. For a person to feel responsible for his actions, he must sense that the behavior has flowed from the self.
Stanley Milgram
#9. I'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
Al Yankovic
#10. Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women's opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering.
Elaine Heffner
#11. Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts.
Leo Rosten
#12. I'd never blame anyone else who falls for the same brand of seduction. I embrace that we're all similarly flawed. That makes the self-inflicted wounds hurt less. I'd read Tennessee Williams. I just didn't expect to be living my own tainted little version of Suddenly Last Summer.
Dan Skinner
#13. Declined. I went inside to pay cash. This had happened before, but not often. There was something about that word that sucked the self-respect out of your soul. This time it sucked out all my hope as well.
James Anderson
#14. The search for total knowledge starts from the Self and finds its fulfillment in coming back to the Self, finding that everything is the expression of the Self - everything is the expression of my own Self.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#15. I think God wants to make me pure gold, so He is burning out the dross, teaching me the meaning of the fire, the burnt offering, the death of the self-part of me.
Amy Carmichael
#16. To 'us', nothing except the Soul (Atma) is beautiful, and there is indeed no such thing as bad in this world. Bad is to deviate from one's own 'boundary' (to not remain as the Self).
Dada Bhagwan
#17. Love is - OK, it's 20 things, but it isn't 19. And I think that love reaches for something which is very, very deep in us and is very easily obscured, and is also very easily denied, which is the instinct towards the other person, other than toward the self.
Tom Stoppard
#18. To the self-righteous, being judged according to deeds does not seem too alarming but to the man who knows himself the thought is terrifying.
Paul Washer
#19. The dominant mood of contemporary American culture is the self-celebration of the peasantry.
William A. Henry III
#20. The self-defence class was a mixed bunch, chosen because each had once been in mortal danger.
Angie Sage
#21. As I go forth today and embark on the wonderful experience of living, I am on a journey of self-discovery and also of the discovery of the self hidden in everyone and the Power in back of everything.
Ernest Holmes
#22. The supreme attainment of human life is divine bliss. Divine bliss is the nature of the Self.
Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
#23. The past is full of examples of renegade writers who were overlooked in their time not only because their work didn't fit neatly into potted categories but also because they avoided the self-promotional efforts of their peers.
Joanna Scott
#24. You try getting any sympathy when you tell your best friends how much the self-avowed sadist broke your heart, how much pain she put you through. - Ivan E. Coyote to --------, 2004 (age 35)
David Eso
#25. In searching for the self, one cannot simultaneously be the hunter and the hunted.
Gilbert Ryle
#26. If you try to do that which is not 'our' duty [the Self's duty], it will create interference.
Dada Bhagwan
#28. The self does not realize itself most fully when self-realization is its most constant aim.
Marianne Moore
#29. Beyond the parameters of the self is an ocean ... and it's most excellent.
Frederick Lenz
#30. Each of us is several, is man, is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In the colony of our being there are many species of people who think and feel in different ways.
Pascal Mercier
#31. Mature love is not a surrender of the self but a surrender to the self. The ego surrenders its hegemony of the personality to the heart, but in this surrender it is not annihilated. Rather it is strengthened because its roots in the body are nourished by the joy that the body feels.
Alexander Lowen
#32. My memories of being nine or ten years old are especially vivid, since this is the time when you have a real sense of who you are - before the self-conscious preteen years start.
Marissa Moss
#33. To whom else should one pay honor, but to Him, Atman, the Only One? And where was Atman to be found, where did He dwell, where did His eternal heart beat, if not within the Self, in the innermost, in the eternal which each person carried within him.
Hermann Hesse
#34. A gentleman who doesn't have the physical and/or emotional sensitivity to use condoms couldn't possibly possess the self-confidence required to fully procure the infinite sounding of pleasure from the depth of a woman's being, via the endlessness of her cunt.
Inga Muscio
#35. The last faint spark
In the self-murdered heart, the wounds of the sad uncomprehending
dark,
The wounds of the baited bear,
The blind and weeping bear whom the keepers beat
On his helpless flesh ... the tears of the hunted hare.
Edith Sitwell
#36. Unity does not exist in the world. Only when the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] grants moksha [liberation], does unity arise. Unity cannot prevail without Gnan [knowledge of the self].
Dada Bhagwan
#37. The self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and moral conduct.
Mary Barnett Gilson
#38. Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.
Guru Nanak
#39. The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture.
Burton Silverman
#40. Remaining quiet is what is called wisdom-insight. To remain quiet is to resolve the mind in the Self. Telepathy, knowing past, present and future happenings and clairvoyance do not constitute wisdom-insight.
Ramana Maharshi
#41. Most people want peace without the aloneness of [spiritual] power. And they want the self-confidence of adulthood without having to grow up.
M. Scott Peck
#42. We' are the self (chetan, Soul) and obstruction (antray) are non-self (achetan, non-Soul); therefore, the Self (chetan, Soul) shall win in the end!
Dada Bhagwan
#43. A warrior doesn't know remorse for anything he has done, because to isolate one's acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil is to place an unwarranted importance on the self.
Carlos Castaneda
#44. I think of the self-actualizing man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away. The average man is a full human being with dampened and inhibited powers and capabilities.
Abraham Maslow
#45. Attempting to follow Him without denying the self is the root of all failures.
Watchman Nee
#46. Joy never comes to those who seek it. In the self-forgetting hour when we are touched by another's need and sacrifice for it, we suddenly find our soul aflame with glorious joy
Fulton J. Sheen
#47. The challenge life presents to each of us is to become truly ourselves
not the self we have imagined or fantasized about, not the self that our friends want us to be, not the self our ego would have us be, but the self God has ordained us to be from before we were in our mother's womb.
Matthew Kelly
#48. By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
Natalie Cole
#49. Neurosis may be called a negating of possibilities; it is the shrinking up of one's world. The development of the self is this radically curtailed.
Rollo May
#50. If one can exactly see the world 'as it is'; if one can exactly see the 'relative' and the 'real', it is shukladhyan (contemplation as the Self, Pure Soul).
Dada Bhagwan
#51. Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity?
Joyce Carol Oates
#52. [The human mind] finds more facility in assenting to the self-existence of an invisible cause possessing infinite power, wisdom, and goodness, than in the self-existence of the universe, visibly destitute of these attributes, and which may be the effect of them.
James Madison
#53. I had remained hopeful that, among the millions on this Earth, there might be a few who could summon the courage to know me for what I am and have the self-confidence to still walk part of this life with me.
Dean Koontz
#55. The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
Ramana Maharshi
#56. Where there is love, there is no question. Where there is a question, there is no love. Then it becomes a business. So love is the totality of the self. My dear folks, if you cannot find yourself, you can never find anybody you want to find.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#57. History: the lies of the victors, the self-delusions of the defeated.
Julian Barnes
#58. Gently resist the temptation to chase your dreams into the world; pursue them in your heart until they disappear into the Self, and leave them there.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#59. Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In the vast colony of our being there are many species of people who think and feel in different ways. Livro Do Desassossego
Fernando Pessoa
#60. Three aspects of the self betrayer's conduct always go together: accusing others, excusing oneself, and displaying oneself as a victim.
C. Terry Warner
#61. Individualism is the self-affirmation of the individual self as individual self without regard to its participation in its world. As such it is the opposite of collectivism, the self affirmation of the self as part of a larger whole without regard to its character as an individual self.
Paul Tillich
#62. The entire universe is just an expression, projection, of the Being, of the Self. Within this small body, you are able to experience the infinite space.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#63. Where in the self-help section of Barnes and Noble does one find a guide on dealing with a supernatural stalker?
Cosmo Knox
#64. Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.
Rumi
#65. A worthy old scholar, criticising the king's penmanship, pointed out a fault. He, smiling, erased the word, but when the critic was gone, began to restore it, remarking that it was right, but it was better to spoil paper than the self-confidence of an old man.
Flora Annie Steel
#66. The eyes that see the soul are different from the eyes that see the self. We see soul when we are in the mystery. We see self when we are in the events. The coach must have eyes for both.
Julio Olalla
#67. Tat tvam asi: "Thou art That." Atman is Brahman: the Self in each person is not different from the Godhead.
Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
#68. What if reality (as perceived) were simply an extension of the self? Wouldn't that color the way each individual experiences the world?
David Mazzucchelli
#69. The reason why Jesus got into such severe trouble was that he tried to bring into the present a construction of the world, of God and of the self that belonged to a still-remote future. He was much too far ahead of his time, and suffered accordingly.
Don Cupitt
#70. If the self-help books worked, it would be a shrinking industry not a growing one.
Steve Maraboli
#71. Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body that work, not I. Tell yourself this unceasingly and realise it. Try not to know that you work.
Swami Vivekananda
#72. If, to him, love was a celebration of one's self and of existence - then, to the self-haters and life-haters, the pursuit of destruction was the only form and equivalent of love.
Ayn Rand
#73. I believe that there was a great age, a great epoch when man did not make war: previous to 2000 B.C. Then the self had not reallybecome aware of itself, it had not separated itself off, the spirit was not yet born, so there was no internal conflict, and hence no permanent external conflict.
D.H. Lawrence
#74. Happiness is being at peace with yourself while the self is united with a larger order of things.
Henryk Skolimowski
#75. She could be affectionate, generous, and optimistic one day; vengeful, depressed, and irritable the next. In the colloquial language of her friends, she was "either in the garret or cellar." In either mood, she needed attention, something the self-contained Lincoln was not always able to provide.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#76. To fare on - fusing the self that wakes and the self that dreams.
Nancy Horan
#77. The 'relative' delights the mind (manoranjan), the 'real' delights the Self (the soul, atmaranjan).
Dada Bhagwan
#78. In Buddhism, ignorance as the root cause of suffering refers to a fundamental misperception of the true nature of the self and all phenomena.
Dalai Lama
#79. It is often said that The Self has no location, but Wu Hsin will now reveal exactly where to look. Look where there is no difference between The known and the unknown, Where there is no difference between Self and other, Where all differences have ceased to exist. Here you will find It.
Wu Hsin
#80. That nagging state of constant thought that exists somewhere between the ears and behind the eyes is the self.
Chris Matakas
#81. The self-regulating mechanism of the market place cannot always be depended upon to produce adequate results in scientific research.
James R Newman
#82. In my world, the self-righteous are often the ones sneaking around getting blow jobs before they go home to the wives and kiddies.
Nora Roberts
#83. Writers do the self-censoring before they even get to the studio executive, because they know the film will not run that gauntlet. They, because they want to get their films made, they censor it.
Terry Gilliam
#84. A hard truth: that courage can be without meaning or impact, need not be rewarded, or even known. The world has not been made in that way. Perhaps, however, within the self there might come a resonance, the awareness of having done something difficult, of having done ... something.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#85. The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward manifesation of the physical world, including fluctuations which end up as thoughts and actions
Aldous Huxley
#86. Only those who are humble can consistently identify evidences of grace in others who need adjustment. It's something the proud and the self-righteous are incapable of.
C.J. Mahaney
#87. The self ... can split off from itself without being less. You are not a mini self, an adjunct to some super-being, never to share fully in its reality ... you are that superself looking out through only one eye, or using just one finger.
Jane Roberts
#88. Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.
Bruce Lee
#90. All that is required to realise the Self is to Be Still.
Ramana Maharshi
#91. Junior athletics is but one facet of the real gem: life's endless war against the self you cannot live without.
David Foster Wallace
#92. To some extent this area was foreshadowed by pioneering humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow, who wrote about the self-actualized or fulfilled person, and Carl Rogers, who once noted that he was pessimistic about the world, but optimistic about people.
Tom Butler-Bowdon
#93. I am the self-consumer of my woes,
John Clare
#94. There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.
Fay Weldon
#95. But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world
a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.
Virginia Woolf
#96. Man is the microcosm of the macrocosm ; the God on earth is built on the pattern of the God in nature. But the universal consciousness of the real Ego transcends a million fold the self-consciousness of the personal for false ego.
Carl Jung
#97. Second, the other person is not the object of intentionality, strictly speaking; the self is not conscious of the other person as Other.[30]
Michael L Morgan
#98. The age of the self-made man was also the age of the broken man... This 'American sense' looked upon failure as a 'moral sieve' that trapped the loafer and passed the true man through. Such ideologies fixed blame squarely on individual faults, not extenuating circumstances.
Scott A. Sandage
#99. The self driving car is not self-aware. It's just driving; it's not thinking.
Eric Schmidt
#100. It is a human defect
to try to know one's self by the self of another.
Robert Penn Warren
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