Top 1200 Self Harm Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it.

This book will not harm you unless someone throws it at you which is a possibilty never to be discounted.

A gentleman is one who doesn't and can't forgive himself for self-committed mistake even if others forget it and the self-criticism is a mark of his right attitude towards life.

Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared.

God dwells in you, as you, and you don't have to 'do' anything to be God-realized or Self-realized, it is already your true and natural state. Just drop all seeking, turn your attention inward, and sacrifice your ego mind to the One Self radiating in the Heart of your very being. For this to be your own presently lived experience, Self-Inquiry Meditation is a direct and immediate way.

I am driven to observe of the ultra-Darwinists the following features as symptomatic. First, to my eyes, is their almost unbelievable self-assurance, their breezy self-confidence.

It seems to me it's always the evil we refuse to see that does us the greatest harm.

Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused and hurt and hungry.

The concept that you cannot own the airwaves has caused far more harm than good.

Can a nation use the methods of terrorism? Can it harm innocent civilians in the process? What are the costs? Where is the line?

I became paranoid for a long time: I thought that people were out to harm me.

Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

You learn to present dark things without including their ability to harm, treasuring them for what they are.

In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.

We must strive for freedom if we strive for self-knowledge. The task of self-knowledge and of further self-development is of such importance and seriousness, it demands such intensity of effort, that to attempt it any old way and amongst other things is impossible. The person who undertakes this task must put it first in his life, which is not so long that he can afford to squander it on trifles.

But a little milk, butter and cheese are acceptable because no harm is done in obtaining them.

There's no harm being a copycat. If someone else is doing a good job, copy. It's free.

My case was wrongfully decided and has caused great harm to the women and children of our nation.

When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that is no longer Self - the great secret!

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

The denial of "self" challenges only the notion of a static self independent of body and mind-not the ordinary sense of ourself as a person distinct from everyone else. The notion of a static self is the primary obstruction to the realization of our unique potential as an individual being. By dissolving this fiction through a centered vision of the transiency, ambiguity, and contingency of experience, we are freed to create ourself anew.

Ethics doesn't require us to ignore our self-interests or demand a life of self-sacrifice. It requires that we know the difference between what we want and what we should do

Self-indulgence leads only to misery. Nothing great or even worthwhile is ever accomplished without struggle through adversity and self-sacrifice

This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind.

When man thinks in self-conscious submission to the voluntary revelation of the self-sufficient God, he has therewith the only possible ground of certainty for his knowledge.

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.

Our everyday self is a narrow construct...Our total self is far broader, ultimately infinite. Actors who seem to be playing themselves are actually playing roles they have become so skillful at that they seem pure and natural...Much bad Acting is the result of being too close to the Actor's everyday self, confining him in its rigid mold.

The aim is not therefore to liberate some 'essential self' by throwing off the burden of government and the State, but to develop the self in creative and voluntary relations with others.

I like to laugh at myself and sometimes I put my foot in my mouth, but I don't mean any harm.

Self-care is the non-negotiable. That's the thing that you have to do. And beauty is the thing that can be the benefit of the self-care. Beauty is not the point. Beauty is just a cute side-effect from self-care.

We never know when or where harm may strike but, we can take proactive steps to protect ourselves.

Any harm you do to a man should be done in such a way that you need not fear his revenge.

And when again it's morning, they'll wash away. Here it's safe, here it's warm Here the daisies guard you from every harm.

One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.

I think there is little harm in venting here and there about things, as we are all human, and it is good to express emotions.

Oh, there was harm indeed for a young lady flattered by the brief attentions of a handsome man.

I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.

It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them.

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that ... you really must make the self. It is absolutely useless to look for it, you won't find it, but it's possible in some sense to make it. I don't mean in the sense of making a mask, a Yeatsian mask. But you finally begin in some sense to make and choose the self you want.

There is far more danger of harm than there is hope of good in any radical changes.

I work out all the time. Cardio, resistance and a lot of jogging. I love to go hiking. I'm going to invest this in myself, into my self-worth, into my self-esteem.

Self-sufficiency is vitally important to my self-respect. I never wanted to rely on my parents in that way, because I knew that if I got used to it, I'd be reliant all my life.

A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.

Whenever America sends its citizens into harm's way, it must do so with eyes wide open.

Don't let them fool you with dope and cocaine, can't do you know harm to feel your own pain.

Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it.

So now I have confessed that he is thine, And I my self am mortgaged to thy will, My self I'll forfeit, so that other mine, Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still.

I can't help but note that God is being useful to a lot of people trying to do harm to one another.

If we love one another, nothing, in truth, can harm us, whatever mischances may happen.

To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm.

It's hard to overstate the lasting harm Mr. Tillerson's tenure will do to America's diplomacy.

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

I definitely think that, for a woman, the biggest turn-on is the mind. Otherwise, obviously you want someone who keeps up with himself and has self-respect and self-confidence.

Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates.

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

Strauss admits to being obsessed by his mother's rejection, and with the resultant rents in self-esteem. The Game echoes with disturbingly abusive comments leveled at his adolescent self, a self he feels was unacceptable. With bravado, he expresses regret that he didn't rack up more sexual conquests in his teens; in person, he expresses a truer regret that he was intimidated by life itself.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.