Top 1200 Self Harm Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.

If criticism had any power to harm, the skunk would be extinct by now.

No harm will come to me. The Assembly is prepared to treat us leniently.

My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.

It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good.

What harm is there in making 100,000 people happy on a hot summer afternoon?

As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

What does God hate or punish except self-will? Let self-will cease, and there will be no hell. On what does that fire feed except on self-will?

......at this point the self has obviously outworn its function; it is no longer needed or useful, and life can go on without it. we are ready to move on, to go beyond the self, beyond even its most intimate union with God, and this is where we enter yet another new life- a life best categorized, perhaps, as a life without a self.

My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual.

The Bible has done more harm than any other book in the world.

An ethical act is one which does not harm others' experience or expectation of happiness.

I can't describe it in words, but I can see it in my head, its color, its light, its shapes, and I've managed to synthesize my love for myself by way of many different reasonings and processes, and I've been able to really synthesize my own satisfaction and things that do it for me. They've usually been self-taught, self-instructed, self-refined. So to be with anybody else has to somewhat lie in that comfort zone I've created with myself so well.

The child is born with a Self but not with an ego. The child develops the ego. As he becomes more and more social and related, ego develops. This ego is just on your periphery where you are related with others - just on the boundary of your being. So ego is the periphery of your being, and Self is the center. The child is born with a Self, but unaware. He is a Self, but he is not conscious of the Self.

Our foreign aid to other nations should never be used to harm.

Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.

Americans welcome carbon limits because they want to protect their families from harm.

The self is the class (not the collection) of the experiences (or autopsychological states). The self does not belong to the expression of the basic experience, but is constructed only on a very high level.

Giving up is not an option if we want to prevent irreparable harm to our planet.

When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.

Fichte takes an I or free will to be not a thing or being but an act which is not undetermined but self-determined, in accordance with reasons or norms rationally self-given.

Myth and mythology often serve constructive and aspirational purposes. But they also do harm.

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

The crocodile doesn't harm the bird that cleans his teeth for him. He eats the others but not that one.

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

A lot of harm has come in all eras from people attached to one view of 'spiritual' truth.

One of the risks for anybody in the lending business is that being conservative can harm your competitiveness.

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.

It's true, harm to Catholics must always be avoided, and all of us do this...but not at the price of the truth!

By inconsistency and frivolity we stray from the Way and show ourselves to be beginners. In this we do much harm.

Be collected. No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart There's no harm done.

Many people of color live on the front lines of environmental hazard and harm.

If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.

Ironically, often the thing that keeps me from experiencing joy is my preoccupation with self. The very selfishness that keeps me from pouring myself out for the joy of others also keeps me from noticing and delighting in the myriad small gifts God offers each day. This is why Walker Percy describes boredom as "the self stuffed with the self."

Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.

I don't think there is any harm in being plus-size as long as you are fit internally.

All the classical meditation traditions, in one way or another, stress nonattachment to the self as a goal of practice. Oddly, this dimension is largely ignored in scientific research, which tends to focus on health and other such benefits. I suppose the difference has to do with the contrast in views of the self from the spiritual and scientific perspectives. Scientists value the self; spiritual traditions have another perspective.

We can not underestimate the potential harm North Korea's capabilities can cause for the rest of the world.

You have to work from one point to go to another. So I admire work ethic, I think it should be reinforced through our neighborhoods, that everybody should work hard, practice makes perfect, you have to be diligent with what you want, you have to apply yourself, you have to motivate your self. You have to do for self by yourself, and then you can do things for other people. That's what I had to do, I had to do for self.

The foolish being who lives making even the slightest distinction between the supreme Self and his own self will always be subject to fear.

Now this spirit is admirably mortified by the exercise of patience. It involves also a continual practice of the presence of God; for we may be come upon at any moment for an almost heroic display of good temper. It is a short road to unselfishness; for nothing is left to self. All that seems to belong most intimately to self, to be self's private property, such as time, home, and rest, are invaded by these continual trials of patience.

Talking is always a good idea. There's no harm in keeping lines of communication open.

An economist's definition of hatred is the willingness to pay a price to inflict harm on others.

Without war there are no heroes. What harm would that be? Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.

If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing.

What you really are isn’t loyal to your self. It won’t favor your self. It will turn your self into what you really are.

Leave people to their opinions and judgements. They cannot harm you; it is their understanding that is faulty, not yours.

Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to itself.

How much harm does a company have to do before we question its right to exist?

A lot of harm has come in all eras from people attached to one view of spiritual “truth.”

Sky and sea, keep harm from me. Earth and fire, bring my desire.

When you are in the mundane from what is deeper than your self, you realize the mundane to be more than your self, and your self opens. It opens in its structuring and in its form, enabling you as the form of your self to move in the deeper levels of the mundane

That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is.

Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions.

Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline, the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline, a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity.

...It's important to distinguish between "worry versus harm" when it came to privacy online.

Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or anti-social) characteristic of our age: public drunkenness, excessive gambling, promiscuity and common-or-garden rudeness are all examples of our collective loss of self-control.