Top 1200 Future Self Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony of mind that nourish science.

If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience. But if we shift our experience of self-identification - and this is what enlightenment is - from the body-self to the spiritual-self, then we place ourselves under an entirely different set of possibilities and probabilities.

Self-approval and self-acceptance in the now are the main keys to positive changes in every area of our lives.

If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

Social media, despite its reputation as the ultimate agent of self-promotion, actually feeds on self-loathing.

Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, - this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American.

True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.

The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics.

We shouldn't just think about mammograms and self-exams and self-care once a year. It should be an ongoing thing.

What has changed is that my life then was less difficult and my future seemingly less gloomy, but as far as my inner self, my way of looking at things and of thinking is concerned, that has not changed. But if there has indeed been a change, then it is that I think, believe and love more seriously now what I thought, believed and loved even then.

Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.

I was painfully self-obsessed and self-aware. I wanted people to love me but at the same time I was terrified of them.

I think there is a place where self-awareness becomes self-preoccupation if you don't take what you have discovered and bring it to bear on the conditions of the world.

UNICEF is helping mothers realize their dreams for the future - a future in which the basic needs for a child's survival: food, clean water and simple health care - are guaranteed.

The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident ... Hitler was afraid.

Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet.

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

Therefore, I think that in the celebration of the 50 years of the present reign, there must be research on the changes that the country has undergone, and in the future, it could be used as a lesson for our future actions.

What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.

Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.

We're pursuing a strategic partnership with Afghanistan on the case of the United States and Afghanistan where we're going to push toward a future. It is the future that the Afghans desire with the United States. It is a future that the Afghans desire with the international community and we desire that as well.

Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.

She quoted a dead playwright and called me a bullet with nothing but a future. She understood my lack of self-pity. She knew why I despised everything that might restrict my forward momentum. She knew that bullets have no conscience. They speed past things and miss their marks as often as they hit them.

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.

I've always been absolutely appalling about the future, but I sort of think that was my childhood religion. We were future deniers. You did your best in the present, which was all around you.

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing.

Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence.

Our future can't be separated from the fact that we are all going to be increasingly compacted into urban areas, though we're different in race and culture and religion. And what we make of that will determine the American future.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

[Iggi Pop] is very self-taught, self-educated, but, man, that guy knows about so many things.

We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it.

The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.

There is no other industry that is more self-congratulatory and self-delusional than journalism. Well, maybe with the exception of Hollywood.

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought

I teach you that there is no other aim than to live with such totality that each moment becomes a celebration. The very idea of "aim" brings future into the mind, because any aim, any end, any goal, needs future. All your goals deprive you of your present, which is the only reality you have. The future is only your imagination, and the past is just footprints left in the sands of your memory. Neither is the past real anymore, nor is the future real yet. This moment is the only reality.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

The Northwest, to make a generalization, is a fairly sensitive populace. Slightly self-conscious and very self-reflexive.

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine statute. It is the surrender of self to an ennobling work, an absolute subordination of personal advantages and of personal pleasures for the sake of truth and the welfare of others, and a willing acceptance of every disability which their interests may entail.

What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle.

I had to do so much self-searching and self-work and learning how to navigate in a world that seemed very mean.

An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself - self-discipline , self-control.

I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'A long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history, and maybe it will help to shape the future.

The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

I hated prog rock; to me, it was the ultimate expression of a bloated sense of self-importance and mindless self-indulgence.

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.

Unconsciousness of self is not so much unselfishness as it is the mental ability to extinguish all thought of one's self - exactly as one turns out the light.

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.

When hard times come, the greatest danger does not necessarily lie in the circumstances we face, but rather in the way we treat ourselves at the time. Nothing is more dangerous than self-hate. Nothing makes it more difficult to heal or to find the grace of peace than self-attack and the agony of self-doubt.

You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.

So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future.

Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.