Top 1200 Old Self Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

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

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.

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

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

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

Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our minds, waiting for our call. We have need of them, for in their sum they epitomize the wisdom and experience of the race.

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

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

Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.

In the World of Reality there is no self, There is no other-than-self.

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.

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.

The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

The self cannot be self without other selves.

Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

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

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.

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.

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.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

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

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.

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

The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Self-education only produces expressions of self.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Self Government won't work without self discipline.

Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.

Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.

Never say you are too old. You do not say it now, perhaps; but by and by, when the hair grows gray and the eyes grow dim and the young despair comes to curse the old age, you will say, "It is too late for me." Never too late! Never too old! How old are you--thirty, fifty, eighty? What is that in immortality? We are but children.

As we grow older we think more and more of old persons and of old things and places. As to old persons, it seems as if we never know how much they have to tell until we are old ourselves and they have been gone twenty or thirty years. Once in a while we come upon some survivor of his or her generation that we have overlooked, and feel as if we had recovered one of the lost books of Livy or fished up the golden candlestick from the ooze of the Tiber.

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.

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

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

There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.

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.

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

Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

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

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

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is evil. He is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other wolf is good. he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you." The son thought about it for a minute and then asked, "Which wolf will win?" The old man replied simply, "The one you feed.

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.

Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

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.

Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.