Top 1200 Self-Love Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!

A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.

Love is willing self-sacrifice for the good of another that does not require reciprocation or that the person being loved is deserving

Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.

In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart.

Poverty is about low, self-esteem and a lack of role models and opportunities. Without money, people resort to de-dignifying activities in order to support themselves. We free people through education and entrepreneurship. Freedom is self-determination, and you can't self-determine without understanding money and capitalism.

Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.

The only motive strong enough to induce men to exercise the self control required by the religion of Jesus is love.

It is about that self-belief, that self-drive, that has got me to where I am now.

Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self.

That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.

Most souls labor under a self imposed curse of desiring but never truly giving themselves over to love.

The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture.

You marry at the level of your self-esteem, make sure you have self worth.

Self-improveme nt is no more God's plan than self-salvation.

When I started modeling, there were very few places people could turn to for self-love and a positive community.

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.

Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.

I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense.

I'm just kind of lazy and messed up and self-managed - self-mismanaged.

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

That love at first sight should happen to me, was Life's most delicious revenge on a self-opinionated fool.

The self is not so much linked to its ancestors, it is not so much the product, and merely the product, of all that, but rather, in the strictest sense of the word, the same thing as all that: the strict, direct continuation of it, just as the self aged fifty is the continuation of the self aged forty.

How can love survive in such a graceless age? The trust and self assurance that lead to happiness, they're the very things we kill.

The underbelly of the human psyche, what is often referred to as our dark side, is the origin of every act of self-sabotage. Birthed out of shame, fear, and denial, it misdirects our good intentions and drives us to unthinkable acts of self-destruction and not-so-unbelievable acts of self-sabotage.

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.

Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.

My passion, personally, is being my true self while inspiring young people who are struggling with their identities to love themselves for who they are.

You must learn to love, respect and believe in yourself. To accomplish this, begin by restructuring your current self-programming.

What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?

Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.

Love created this world, & the lack of it can kill it. Selfishness, self-absorption , arrogance & indifference never built anything.

Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.

No amount of self-improvement can make up for any lack of self-acceptance.

The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.

Children can become self-reliant and self-disciplined by being free to do what they want to do.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

The American tradition rests on pillars of self-questioning, self-actualization, and disagreement.

Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the sense of one's true being. All efforts are to be directed simply to removing the veil of ignorance. Concentrating the mind solely on the Self will lead to happiness or bliss. Drawing in the thoughts, restraining them and preventing them from straying outwards is called detachment (vairagya). Fixing them in the Self is spiritual practice (sadhana). Concentrating on the heart is the same as concentrating on the Self. Heart is another name for Self.

I will not be alone if I am my true self. Only by trading my true self for the companionship of another have I ever made myself alone. Because when I gave up my real self, I wound up resenting my "significant other" for "making me" do that-and it was this resentment that ate away at our relationship.

I'm not really smart, but I'm dedicated. I can be good at anything if I love it and dedicate myself. And I love history. I love science. I love music. I love golf. I love learning. I love life.

Critics say the OWS protesters hate the rich. Come on! Success is the national religion, and almost everyone is a believer. Americans love winners. But that's just the problem. These guys on Wall Street are not winning - they're cheating. And as much as we love the self-made success story, we hate the cheater that much more.

Forgiveness isn't just the absence of anger. I think it's also the presence of self-love, when you actually begin to value yourself.

We can so reconstruct society that it will be self-perpetuating instead of as now, self-exhaustive.

The self doubt can be a fantastic opportunity to self-reflect and see where you can grow and be stronger.

Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.

The teeth of self-pity had gnawed away her essential self.

Freedom is the slogan of the strong, who feel self confident, self sufficient to do it alone.

A crucified Savior is not well served by self-pleasing, self-indulging people.

By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.

Pray to yourself, because I'm in your self and you're in My self. We are one Spirit, saith the Lord.

This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves. So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).

I love stories like 'The Terminator' movies and 'The Matrix,' where our machines become self-aware and turn on us.

It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.

I think the most difficult love begins with one's self. How you treat yourself is something you bring to your relationships.

The tryptamine molecule has this unique property of releasing the structured self into the over-self.