Top 1200 Self Healing Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.

The libertarian view is that human actors are self-owners and these self-owners are capable of appropriating unowned scarce resources by Lockean homesteading ? some type of first use or embordering activity. Obviously, an actor must already own his body if he is to be a homesteader; self-ownership is not acquired by homesteading but rather is presupposed in any act or defense of homesteading.

What are stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?

I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs.

The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its works, as a ground of salvation. It is really a denial of self, and a grounding of its arms in the last citadel into which it can be driven, and is, in its principle, inclusive of every subsequent act of self-denial by which sin is forsaken or overcome.

The only healing I’ve ever known is getting back in that race car — for all us racers.

Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.

It is INCONSISTENT to have Jesus pay a price for healing and for us to believe it is not Gods intention to heal.

Even cynical, selfish people will realize, one way or the other, that it's not in their self-interest to act in self-destructive ways.

There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

Once I know I'm an alcoholic then it is my obligation, duty to see what I can do about healing myself.

There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity.

Know your own Self. Honor your own Self. Find and be who you really are, at the deepest level of your own being. Be present in your own presence. Give yourself the gift of your own Self.

To attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good one sees in oneself; but to recognize always that the evil is one's own doing, and to impute it on one's self.

There is so much division in this world. So what is really the path of healing? It can begin in this moment, by embracing the life that`s here.

Don?t back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem.

Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge

All novels . . . are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being, a character, you are automatically confronted by the question: what is the self? How can it be grasped?

Healing is not necessarily about curing. As your inner light grows - anything is possible.

Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life.

The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy metaphor for falling in love.

Prevention is so much better than healing because it saves the labor of being sick.

As a community, we create a lot of space for fighting and pushing back, but not enough for connecting and healing.

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

You want comedic themes to be recogniseable life truths that we all battle with, and with that comes the healing properties of comedy.

University characters are prime for parody, you know - the self-entitled rich kids to the self-important protestors to the international students.

Religious traditions can be reinterpreted in a manner that assists healing, corrects distortions, and expands vision.

There's a deeper level of healing that needs to happen for the world in general. There's a mass of people who are broken.

The sad truth is that among today's evangelicals it is not loving and esteeming God but self-love and self-esteem that are presented as the pressing need!

The leaves on the Tree of Life are for the healing of the nations, but what are the fruits for?-They must be just for the pleasure of eating!

No discovery of modern psychology is, in my opinion, so important as its scientific proof of the necessity of self-sacrifice (or discipline) to self-realization and happiness.

We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.

Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.

A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

The sometimes-tough love of the Christian faith of my childhood demanded a certain amount of self-reflection and, occasionally, self-criticism.

By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.

All my work is not personal - I've been trying to get away from that into the true self underneath all the tastes and things we think make up a self.

Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom, a lack of self-consciousness, that is innocence.

America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.

For some, healing is too much to bear, and they hand it back, exchanging it for the fear they are accustomed to.

When you consider how epidemic boredom is in our time, you have to concede that entertaining is a healing art.

Doctrine is to be the balm of a healing experience of God, not a theological scalpel to wound and exclude people.

I have never seen a person grow or change in a self - constructive meaningful way when motivated by guilt, shame, or self hate.

When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up.

There is perhaps no sort of self more subject to dangerous egotism than that which deludes itself with the notion that it is not a self at all, but something else. It is well to beware of persons who believe that the cause, the mission, the philanthropy, the hero, or whatever it may be that they strive for, is outside of themselves, so that they feel a certain irresponsibility, and are likely to do things which they would recognize as wrong if done in behalf of an acknowledged self.

There is so much division in this world. So what is really the path of healing? It can begin in this moment, by embracing the life that's here.

We can see the same spirit in everybody only when we know we are that spirit, Atman or Self. Only a person who has understood his own Self can see that Self in everybody.

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.

The great lesson to learn of life is the need of giving out from the abundance of one's self in order to be ever abundant within one's self.

It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.

The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first take the sledge-hammer of the Law in His fists and smash the beast of self-righteousness and its brood of self-confidence, self wisdom, and self-help. When the conscience has been thoroughly frightened by the Law it welcomes the Gospel of grace with its message of a Savior Who came-not to break the bruised reed nor to quench the smoking flax-but to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, and to grant forgiveness of sins to all the captives.

The mundane use of the Gayatri, its repetition for healing the sick, illustrates the meaning we have given to prayer.

A realization of the Presence of God is the most powerful healing agency known to the mind of man.

Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear. What does it mean that success is a dangerous as failure? Whether you go up the ladder or down it, you position is shaky. When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance. What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear? Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear? See the world as your self. Have faith in the way things are. Love the world as your self; then you can care for all things.

Post-?wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several dialects: sarcastic, jaded, opaque; cool and clever. They guard against those moments when melodrama or self-?pity might split their careful seams of intellect, expose the shame of self-?absorption without self-?awareness.

This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so much on self.