Top 1200 Self-Awareness Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.

There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient.

Carrying a concealed weapon is a sign of self-defense, self-protection, and I think it lowers crime.

Self appointed expectations lead to self induced frustrations.

Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?

Narcissism is actually a clever guise adopted to mask its exact opposite, which is a deep well of self-loathing, a well of low self-esteem, rather than high self-esteem. This helps explain why narcissists are so sensitive to criticism, why narcissists tend to break into outrage if they're criticized, because their self-esteem is actually much more brittle than it seems, and once they're challenged, that mask falls apart.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.

The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.

Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.

Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.

Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

What is your Self? Self is nothing but joy. A joyous person is definitely a person who has got his Self expressing through his joy. Such a person is so joy-giving, so humorous, and never degrading anyone.

Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.

Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe.

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

Fighting with self!! Why not? If we can live in harmony with self, we also have a full right to fight ourselves as well.

I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.

Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one!

It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.

A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.

Don't abuse yourself or withhold self-love or self-care.

I believe that mediocrity is self-inflicted and that genius is self-bestowed.

There seems no intrinsic reason why everyone shouldn't be (self-actualising). Apparently every baby has possibilities for self-actualisation, but most get it knocked out of them ...I think of the self-actualising man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away.

God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust?

To love is to be balanced, to extend one's self beyond the sense of self.

Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.

Self-sabotage is the smartest thing you can do if you're sabotaging a self that is not really you.

I am your own self and the self of all beings that exist.

I'm self-opinionated, and I have a sense of self. I can be brutal with agents and have been.

How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?

Being on stage is about self esteem and self confidence.

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

Don't let a grade decide your self-worth. Personally, in my opinion, someone should gauge their self-worth on what they've accomplished that makes them feel good... not in the hedonist aspect, but in the sense of personal accomplishment, as far as what they've accomplished for them, as far as their self-development and creativity is concerned.

Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint.

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people.

It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.

I think people are inherently self-aggrandizing, pleasureseeking, unempathetic, self-serving, greedy and lustful.

You can make one (self-contained self-rescuer) that would last all day, but you'd have to carry it behind in a wagon.

The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.

I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt.

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

Nothing destroys self-worth, self-acceptance and self-love faster than denying what you feel. Without feelings, you would not know where you are in life. Nor would you know what areas you need to work on. Honor your feelings. Allow yourself to feel them.

Working out is really the top thing in my life that I do for my own self-esteem and self-worth.

Sacrifice does not mean that, by giving, we lose something. We sacrifice our limited self to our highest and largest Self, and at that time we immediately become the largest and the highest Self.

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

The universe is not only self-organizing, it is also self-correcting.

Don't clock anybody, let them all clock you, Don't be down with anybody, let them all be down with you. Stay self-managed, self-kept, self-taught, Be your own man; don't be borrowed, don't be bought.

Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.

There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.

It is untrue that fiction is nonutilitarian. The uses of fiction are synonymous with the uses of literature. They include refreshment, clarification of life, self-awareness, expansion of our range of experiences, and enlargement of our sense of understanding and discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty , and understanding. Like literature generally, fiction is a form of discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty, and understanding. If it is all these things, the question of whether it is a legitimate use of time should not even arise.

There is a direct relationship between self-discipline and self-esteem.

Love looks to the eternal. Love is indeed "ecstasy," not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a journey, an on-going exodus out of the closed inward-looking self toward its liberation through self-giving... toward authentic self-discovery and indeed the discovery of God.