We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world.

Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself.

One of the hardest expressions of self-assertiveness is challenging your limiting beliefs.

Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.

For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.

I find sometimes it's easy to be myself, sometimes I find it's better to be somebody else.

Our pride and self-importance are European, while our development and actions are Asiatic.

I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.

It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.

Love of self comes first. The one who loves everybody is the one who does not love anyone.

The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history.

Self-programming, what you believe and affirm about yourself, is the basis of who you are.

There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption .

All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.

Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.

I've worked so hard to just be my full self and God has just validated me in so many ways.

For that matter, thinking of one's self as exceptional is probably more the rule than not.

It's counterproductive and self-destructive to bear grudges with people that are negative.

Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these.

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

If you don't allow for self-serving bias in the conduct of others, you are, again, a fool.

Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.

There is abundant testimony that if we choose love rather than self, we gain immeasurably.

Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.

I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.

Brilliant, inspiring . . . if you are on a pursuit of self-mastery, make time to read this!

The principle of self defense is an American tradition that began at Lexington and Concord.

I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self the more you do.

We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.

Self-righteousness is the fruit of a low view of God's law and a lite view of your own sin.

It's not records I chase, it's self-improvement. And that cannot be done by taking it easy.

One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.

I'm self-conscious in photo shoots. I much prefer to do interviews and talk about the work.

You're gon' have to say to your self, am I gon' believe what them fools say about me today?

It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.

We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.

Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.

Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe.

If you believe that weight loss requires self-deprivation, Im going to teach you otherwise.

The victory's found in truth, like innocence found in youth Self defeat is your own dispute

I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.

I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.

To me photography can be simultaneously a record and a mirror or window of self-expression.

You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense.

The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance.

It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert.

Self is the great antichrist and anti-God in the world, that sets up itself above all else.

Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.

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