Top 1200 Younger Self Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

Sacrifice does not mean that, by giving, we lose something. We sacrifice our limited self to our highest and largest Self, and at that time we immediately become the largest and the highest Self.

Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

Narcissism is actually a clever guise adopted to mask its exact opposite, which is a deep well of self-loathing, a well of low self-esteem, rather than high self-esteem. This helps explain why narcissists are so sensitive to criticism, why narcissists tend to break into outrage if they're criticized, because their self-esteem is actually much more brittle than it seems, and once they're challenged, that mask falls apart.

Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint.

Self appointed expectations lead to self induced frustrations.

Don't let a grade decide your self-worth. Personally, in my opinion, someone should gauge their self-worth on what they've accomplished that makes them feel good... not in the hedonist aspect, but in the sense of personal accomplishment, as far as what they've accomplished for them, as far as their self-development and creativity is concerned.

Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.

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?

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

The Northwest, to make a generalization, is a fairly sensitive populace. Slightly self-conscious and very self-reflexive.

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

Fighting with self!! Why not? If we can live in harmony with self, we also have a full right to fight ourselves as well.

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

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

I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt.

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

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

The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code.

Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.

Love looks to the eternal. Love is indeed "ecstasy," not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a journey, an on-going exodus out of the closed inward-looking self toward its liberation through self-giving... toward authentic self-discovery and indeed the discovery of God.

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

I am your own self and the self of all beings that exist.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.

Being on stage is about self esteem and self confidence.

Don't abuse yourself or withhold self-love or self-care.

Nothing destroys self-worth, self-acceptance and self-love faster than denying what you feel. Without feelings, you would not know where you are in life. Nor would you know what areas you need to work on. Honor your feelings. Allow yourself to feel them.

Self-sabotage is the smartest thing you can do if you're sabotaging a self that is not really you.

There is a direct relationship between self-discipline and self-esteem.

Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

To love is to be balanced, to extend one's self beyond the sense of self.

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?

The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.

I'm self-opinionated, and I have a sense of self. I can be brutal with agents and have been.

Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.

Don't clock anybody, let them all clock you, Don't be down with anybody, let them all be down with you. Stay self-managed, self-kept, self-taught, Be your own man; don't be borrowed, don't be bought.

Forget about trying to stabilize the personal sense of Self. It is inherently unstable. See that the Self watches this.

When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.

A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people.

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

A self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

I believe that mediocrity is self-inflicted and that genius is self-bestowed.

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

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

You are wonderful. Valuable. Worthwhile. Lovable. Not because others think so. Self worth comes from only one place: self.

The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient.

Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.

For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.

What is your Self? Self is nothing but joy. A joyous person is definitely a person who has got his Self expressing through his joy. Such a person is so joy-giving, so humorous, and never degrading anyone.

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.

The universe is not only self-organizing, it is also self-correcting.

The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.

Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing