Top 1200 Self-Sufficient Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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

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.

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

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

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

When the collective mentality of any organization is self and self-preservation first, it's a sure sign of pending doom.

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

In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony of mind that nourish science.

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

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

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.

When hard times come, the greatest danger does not necessarily lie in the circumstances we face, but rather in the way we treat ourselves at the time. Nothing is more dangerous than self-hate. Nothing makes it more difficult to heal or to find the grace of peace than self-attack and the agony of self-doubt.

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.

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

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

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

True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.

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

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

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

The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident ... Hitler was afraid.

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, - this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American.

Social media, despite its reputation as the ultimate agent of self-promotion, actually feeds on self-loathing.

If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience. But if we shift our experience of self-identification - and this is what enlightenment is - from the body-self to the spiritual-self, then we place ourselves under an entirely different set of possibilities and probabilities.

God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust?

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.

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

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

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

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.

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

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

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

Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.

Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of self-transcendence.

To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine statute. It is the surrender of self to an ennobling work, an absolute subordination of personal advantages and of personal pleasures for the sake of truth and the welfare of others, and a willing acceptance of every disability which their interests may entail.

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.

The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.

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

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

Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.

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.

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.

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

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

It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.

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

Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery.

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

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