Top 1200 Self Harm Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

There didn't seem to her any harm in it, and the make-believe was so comforting.

Buddhism’s cardinal ethical principle is to avoid causing harm.

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?

What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?

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.

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

There is no more harm in adultery than in rubbing one's hands together.

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

Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.

Rank beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.

Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.

I am no more young. So there is no harm in playing an elderly role.

The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority.

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.

Do no harm & leave the world a better place than you found it.

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

Filibuster has long tradition, but used to harm civil rights.

Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.

Spontaneous combustion IS a form of harm, Mr. D," Chiron put in.

No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love.

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.

The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code.

Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.

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

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

Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.

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.

There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.

If he'd done something to harm her, I would annihilate him.

Michael respected doctors immensely: that they went to school, that they studied... to do no harm.

There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.

If anyone did any harm to my children, I don't know what I would do.

Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.

It's hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.

On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.

We must inflict upon terrorists and their families critical economic harm.

Thou cannot harm a butterfly, without troubling a star.

Wine taken in moderation never does any harm.

I don't see any harm in brining an instrument into the church itself.

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

Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.

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

It's raw, unbridled superstition for these people to claim that words can harm you.

Thou hast not half that power to do me harm As I have to be hurt.

There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out.

When the collective mentality of any organization is self and self-preservation first, it's a sure sign of pending doom.

Harm no other beings. They are just your brothers and sisters.

Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge.

Satisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker.

Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind.

Evil person causes harm even if treated will.

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

When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.

I don't see any harm in working, getting out there, and practicing.

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.

Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.