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Last updated on December 11, 2024.
I procrastinate to a point where I'm filled with self-loathing and then I start writing. It's usually a state of self-loathing that gets me going.
Humility - the discipline of putting others ahead of self, the choice to value others above self - is, at its core, a matter of faith.
Being your self its all a takes if you want to be impressed someone dont be some one else just be your self
Meditation is a process of liquefying the self temporarily and then allowing the self to rebind. The ice melts and then it comes back again.
There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies.
The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.
What is the holding of breath? It is a flight from the Self, it is a temporary escape from the torment of Self. It is a temporary palliative against the pain and folly of life.
Once it has learned to dream the double, the self arrives at this weird crossroad and a moment comes when one realizes that it is the double who dreams the self.
You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.
One of the goals of a spiritual practice is self-awareness, and one of the best tools of self-awareness is simple emotional vulnerability.
Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.
Tennis is a huge part of my life, but I don't base my self-value or my self-worth or the quality of my life on my results on the court.
imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
I still haven't found the place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true self, either.
I don't believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional, and it is all personal.
Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.
Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be.
The camera is first a means of self-discovery and a means of self-growth. The artist has one thing to say - himself.
I must play my role, great or small - that is humility, without self-importance, without self-indulgence.
Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work.
If you can win complete mastery over self, you will easily master all else. To triumph over self is the perfect victory.
Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
Monologues are self-verifying and self-referencing, a world in their own right, one with its own internal logic that strengthens with reiteration.
You have to be true to yourself, but you have to be true to your best self, not to the self that secretly thinks you are better than other people.
Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.
I consider the indiscriminate propagation of self-help to be morally unacceptable... self-help is the opposite of autonomous or vernacular life.
What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood only as a surrender of self to the other.
The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.
We're blind, deaf and dumb. It is only that Self, which is our life force that makes who and what we are. The realization of that is self-realization.
I heard I was the self-proclaimed White Mamba, which I can say I have never self-proclaimed myself anything.
I love WWE, and I love that platform. There is no other platform in the world that gives me that instant gratification. There is just no other platform.
There's a paradox with self-improvement, and it is this: the ultimate goal of all self-improvement is to reach the point where you no longer feel the need to improve yourself.
Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed.
The reason that I'm an actor, or an artist, is ultimately because I'm trying to paint a self-portrait, and the most complete and beautiful self-portrait that you can.
Raising self-centered kids is not good for society, but it's also not good for their own mental health to be completely self-absorbed.
I don't think my brand of self-confidence and self-assuredness can come from an outside source. It's got to come from me.
True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.
However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.
I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you?
I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do.
Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Real human purpose in life is to realise self. I am on the path to spirituality, to realise my inner self.
The only long-term motivation is self motivation. So hire people who are self motivated and get out of their way.
Self-righteousness, when you think about it, is a contra-indicator of self-esteem. It's what sets in when genuine righteousness eludes us.
Perhaps the greatest display of self-discipline is persisting when the going gets tough. Persistence is self-discipline in action.
Adventure is a path...Real adventure - self-determined , self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.
The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.
A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.
Self-esteem and self-love are the opposites of fear; the more you like yourself, the less you fear anything.
Self-interest is hostile to the common good, but enlightened self-interest is not. And this is the best key to the meaning of enlightenment.
When I had my daughter, my priorities shifted. Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed and surrounded by people that are self-absorbed.
I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it... It is unrequited self-love.
...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures.
My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am.
Because it is possible to create - creating one's self, willing to be one's self - one has anxiety. One would have no anxiety if there were no possibility whatever.
I guess I'm rather self-destructive, and I like to give other people who are self-destructive a song to sing.
We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.
An excuse is the tool our weak self uses to prevent our strongest self from reaching greatness.
