Self Quotes

I believe that in our constant search for security we can never gain any peace of mind until we are ...

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermit-tent gloom.

Waiting is one of the great arts.

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values a...

The basic freedom of the world is woman's freedom.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside where it functi...

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are you aren't.

I often think of the image only I can see now, and of which I’ve never spoken. It’s always there, in...

The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my firs...

For women there are undoubtedly great difficulties in the path but so much the more to overcome. ...

Why can a man not act himself be himself and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness al...

Your thorns are the best part of you.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

Superior people never make long visits.

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fr...

In youth we learn in age we understand.

As far as your self-control goes as far goes your freedom.

If there be a faith that can move mountains it is faith in one's own power.

Conquer but never triumph.

If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another before you do anything you shoul...

There are so many works of the mind, so much humanity, that to disburden ourselves of ourselves is a...

i know more than i know and must learn it from myself

Her name had the likeness of a name. She had the likeness of a woman, with hands but no face at all,...

I am a moonbeam free to go whenever I choose.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong which course is patriotic an...

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Grumbling is the death of love.

"Glamour" is assurance. It is a kind of knowing that you are all right in every way mentally and ph...

If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me I've got to get out.

You are unique and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost.

Misery is a communicable disease.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great ...

What is the motive for this ‘fugitive’ way of saying “I”? It is motivated by Dasein’s falling; for a...

Dasein *is authentically itself* in the primordial individualization of the reticent resoluteness wh...

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great ...

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

Resolve to be thyself and know that he who finds himself loses his misery.

Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow I stand...

The world is inseparable from the subject, but from a subject which is nothing but a project of the ...

Our whole education system is calculated to produce *feelings* in us, impart them to us, instead of ...

But who is this self that is to be renounced and to have no benefit? It seems that *you* yourself ar...

Liberate yourself as far as you can, and you have done your part; for it is not given to every one t...

Here we come upon the old, old craze of the world, which has not yet learned to do without clericali...

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.

If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you c...

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

As he watched Joe stand, blazing, on the fire escape, Sammy felt an ache in his chest that turned ou...

Odd, though, all these dealings of mine with myself. First I’ve agreed a principle withmyself, now I...

Odd, though, all these dealings of mine with myself. First I’ve agreed a principle with myself, now ...

Of all our infirmities the most savage is to despise our being.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself and not by ...

Not being able to govern events I govern myself.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.

Faith in oneself ... is the best and safest course.

Learning too soon our limitations we never learn our powers.

The brave man carves out his fortune and every man is the sum of his own works.

Who was the real me? I can only repeat: I was a man of many faces.At meetings I was earnest, enthusi...

The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization ...

So this was what it was like not to be me.

Was I like honey thinking it's a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle?...

When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even thoseyou love.

Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife.

My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.

I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery the offering the pride.

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

Khird-Mandon Se Kya Puchon Ke Meri Ibtida Kya HaiKe Main Iss Fikar Mein Rehta Hun, Meri Intiha Kya H...

Khuda tujhe kisi toofaan se aashna karde,Ke tere behr ki maujon men iztiraab naheenMay God grant you...

The Grameen clinics prove that a medical system 'for the poor' can be almost entirely self-supportin...

Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree but smiles.

You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. A...

To discover the exact location of a 'thing' is a simple matter of factual research. To discover the ...

I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'to...

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem the more likely one will tr...

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self ...

It was one of those moments—which sometimes occur only at the interval of years—when a man's moral a...

I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.

To bite off your shadow is neither easy nor painless. It demands a single-mindedness that is almost ...

You're a poem?' I repeated.She chewed her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem, or I am a pattern, o...

Though we rush ahead to save our time, we are only what we feel

We are not our own light.

The price we paid for the volumes of ourselves that we suffocated in the dark.

Aside from myself, there was no sign of me.

The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.

With the passage of days in this godly isolation [desert], my heart grew calm. It seemed to fill wit...

(U)derneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting ...

It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of but my own.

Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.

He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.

As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone. Never inflict your rage on another. If you ...

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious fe...

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are-not necessarily a religious feel...

I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took m...