Top 1200 Self Being Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.

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

Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

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

It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self examiner.

When we speak of being vulnerable, it suggests being especially vulnerable to pain. People for whom personal dignity and self-sufficiency are everything, do all they can to shut it out. Noli mi tangere. They are well aware that any intimate relationship has pain in it, forces a special kind of awareness, is costly, and so they try to keep themselves unencumbered by shutting pain out as far as it is possible to do so.

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

The joke of it all is that you are looking from your true nature right now without knowing it. If you would stop being fascinated with the contents of your mind, you would experience what I am saying. Feel your way into what I am saying rather than thinking about it. Only a self-concept looks and longs for God. Drop your self-concept and there is only God meeting God. Enlightenment is the restoration of cosmic humor.

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

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.

Man is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness.

The Philippines are ours forever. They are not capable of self-government. How could they be? They are not a self-governing race.

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

The sense of self is one of the obscurations that prevents us from seeing clearly, the idea that there is a self or that we are anyone in particular.

Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

Martial arts is self-growth. It's artistic impression. It's self-defense... it doesn't have any place in politics.

Self-esteem is that deep-down inside the skin feeling you have of your own self-worth.

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

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves?

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

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being.

Emotional dependence is the opposite of emotional strength. It means needing to have others to survive, wanting others to "do it for us," and depending on others to give us our self-image, make our decisions, and take care of us financially. When we are emotionally dependent, we look to others for our happiness, our concept of "self," and our emotional well-being. Such vulnerability necessitates a search for and dependence on outer support for a sense of our own worth.

Being an MP feeds your vanity and starves your self- respect.

Self-indulgence takes many forms. A man may be self-indulgent in speech, in touch, in sight. From self-indulgence a man comes to idle speech and worldly talk, to buffoonery and cracking indecent jokes. There is self-indulgence in touching without necessity, making mocking signs with the hands, pushing for a place, snatching up something for oneself, approaching someone else shamelessly. All these things come from not having the fear of God in the soul and from these a man comes little by little to perfect contempt.

It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead.

Being fully in the present, you experience the timeless. In the timeless, you find your true self.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

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

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.

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

Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.

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

To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.

If you don't have self-respect, if you don't have dignity, if you don't have some true knowledge of self and who you are, and where you're coming from, then you're absolutely lost.

Self-seeking, self-glory, that is not me. No. Many people say I embarrass them with my humility.

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

If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression .

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

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.

Self-publishing in comics is core to the whole artform. There is no scarlet letter in comics as there still is, to some degree, in prose. As no publisher for a long time would publish serious work in comics, the only way a lot of it came out was because of self-publishing. Many of the greatest works of the medium are self-published.

A man does not have to go and find where his eyes are in order to see. The heart is there, always open to you, if you care to enter it, always supporting your movements, although you may be unaware of it. It is perhaps more correct to say that the Self is the Heart. Really the Self is the centre and is everywhere aware of itself as the Heart or Self-awareness.

Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat.

It is always good to self-analyse and be self-critical. That is how I've got through so far and improved.

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

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

Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.

When I'm away from sport and not doing something I have much self-belief in, I can lack self-confidence at times.

Self-recognition, the self-contemplation of spirit is the primary movement out of which all creativeness proceeds.

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

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

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

The two greatest enemies of the individual in the modern world are communism and psychiatry. Each wages a relentless war against that which makes a person an individual: communism against the ownership of property, psychiatry against the ownership of the self (mind and body). Communists criminalize the autonomous use of capital and labor, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in the black market, especially in foreign currencies. Psychiatrists criminalize the autonomous use of the self, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in self-abuse, especially in self-medication and self-destruction.

Being able to influence the outcome, being able to do something about it, to be able to stop the bleeding. You're not being useful if you're just standing there going "Oh, that's awful!" You're only useful if you actually do something about it and I think that goes for everything. If you actually do something about what's in front of you, then you are actually contributing and you haven't got time to be self-centred or sorry for yourself. You should be doing something about the person you really should feel sorry for.

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

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me, if I do that well enough, then I'll be able to look after someone else -- the children or the husband or the elderly. But I have to look after myself first. I know that some people think that's being selfish, I think that's being self-full.

Sacrifice self to bless one another, even as God has blessed you. Forget self in laboring for mankind.