Top 1200 Self-Realization Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

I hated prog rock; to me, it was the ultimate expression of a bloated sense of self-importance and mindless self-indulgence.

We shouldn't just think about mammograms and self-exams and self-care once a year. It should be an ongoing thing.

I think there is a place where self-awareness becomes self-preoccupation if you don't take what you have discovered and bring it to bear on the conditions of the world.

Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.

The self cannot be self without other selves.

There is no other industry that is more self-congratulatory and self-delusional than journalism. Well, maybe with the exception of Hollywood.

This is not the case. There is nothing that is not the Self. The Self does not have to be realized.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.

What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.

Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.

There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.

In the World of Reality there is no self, There is no other-than-self.

Self-approval and self-acceptance in the now are the main keys to positive changes in every area of our lives.

Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.

An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself - self-discipline , self-control.

Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery.

We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The human lust for power and esteem, coupled with its vulnerability to self-deception and self-righteousness, makes that an invitation to a calamity, all the worse when the power is directed at a goal as quixotic as eradicating human self-interest.

The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle.

I had to do so much self-searching and self-work and learning how to navigate in a world that seemed very mean.

All the great people say it was their destiny to be great. Know thyself-you have a destiny to be great. It's coded in your DNA/RNA. Meet thy greater self. Express thy higher self. Fulfill your real self.

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.

Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.

Self-education only produces expressions of self.

You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.

We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence.

I want women to be self-dependent and self-content.

Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving

Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

The real self and the public self are intertwined, like a tumor around an organ, and you can't cut the tumor or you'll kill the organ, so they live together, until the tumor chokes the organ off - but which self is the tumor?. Or it's like something out of Star Trek. The Borg.

Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.

Unconsciousness of self is not so much unselfishness as it is the mental ability to extinguish all thought of one's self - exactly as one turns out the light.

In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

[Iggi Pop] is very self-taught, self-educated, but, man, that guy knows about so many things.

There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.

Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.

Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.

We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it.

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.

I was painfully self-obsessed and self-aware. I wanted people to love me but at the same time I was terrified of them.

Self Government won't work without self discipline.

Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet.

The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.