Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Anger is like A full hot horse, who being allowed his way, Self-mettle tires him.

Nothing can stand in the way of the man who focuses his entire self on a problem.

Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.

You can bring out your inner self and moods through dancing. Music does the same.

Authentic spirituality... does not render the self content, it renders it undone.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender

I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

Discover your deep inner-self and from that place spread love in every direction.

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

Self-righteousness is the devil's masterpiece to make us think well of ourselves.

Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence.

If I could go back to my younger self, I'd be like, "Not everything's permanent."

One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner.

I don't dictate particular styles of dress. I do teach classes in self discovery.

My interest lies in my self-expression -- what's inside of me -- not what I'm in.

All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell.

What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

We live in a culture built on debt, so we are encouraged to have no self control.

The Higher Self is whispering to you softly in the silence between your thoughts.

There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.

Love and the self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both.

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

Your self is the universe, and you perceive the universe through a state of mind.

The Martyr finds her way to self-knowledge through pain, suffering, and surrender.

Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.

The only cause of happiness is love. The only cause of suffering is self grasping.

These two criteria are like the pillars of true love: deeds, and the gift of self.

Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.

We love best those who are, or act for us, a self we do not wish to be or act out.

God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.

Self-discipline is doing what you know you should do when you don't want to do it.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.

Many of us struggle with ideas that come to our head from our self-identification.

Real peace comes only to those who control the body and mind with self-discipline.

The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.

I've always been a bit of a self-doubter, I think a lot of actors are. I still am.

Against self-slaughter There is a prohibition so divine That cravens my weak hand.

It is hard to imagine Thomas Kinkade as anything less than supremely self-assured.

Americans began by loving youth, and now, out of adult self-pity, they worship it.

Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.

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

The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.

Self-publishing is great, but I don't want to be an icon for it, or anything else.

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