Top 1200 Self Reflection Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Self Government won't work without self discipline.

The human body is a miraculous self-healing machine, but those self-repair systems require a nutrient-dense diet.

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.

Art is a direct reflection of the life you live. What you experience comes out in your work.

Asian literature is evolving with the people. It's always a reflection on what's happening to the culture at large.

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.

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.

Compassion is a reflection of our connectedness. Your voice is need and much appreciated!

Love yourself and realize that whatever you attempt to achieve in Life is a direct reflection of you.

RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.

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

My mom beat me up," I informed my reflection. It looked back sympathetically.

Love is more than a one way reflection, stop using sex as a weapon.

If anything can rival Venice in its beauty, it must be its reflection at sunset in the Grand Canal.

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.

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

My music is a direct reflection of the eclectic person I am. I don't like to be stuck in an R&B box.

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.

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.

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.

Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.

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

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

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.

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

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

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.

We sometimes from dreams pick up some hint worth improving by reflection.

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

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.

Lord, you are my lover, my longing, my flowing stream, my sun, and I am your reflection.

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

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

Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

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

My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.

When there are no lyrics, people can picture what they want. It's a reflection of where they are in their lives. Music becomes a mirror.

Illnesses are often times a reflection of an emotional place that needs healing or attention.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. But with self-confidence you can succeed. A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement.

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.

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.

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.

Through that windshield I saw a city that didn’t know it was hungry and a reflection of a guy who was FREE.

Conflict tip: What comes out of someone else's mouth is a reflection of their heart ... not yours.

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

Life is unpredictable, and I feel, to some extent, lighting and cinematography should be a reflection of that.

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.

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

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

In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.

Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery.

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.

Garry Hill is a pleasure to be around, and his work is a rewarding reflection of my career.

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.

Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection.