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A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood.
I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.
No one is born with self confidence. Self confidence is learned and earned with experience.
The self does not realize itself most fully when self-realization is its most constant aim.
Not to be occupied with your sin, but to be occupied with God brings deliverance from self.
A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.
That's the thing about needs. Sometimes when you get them met, you don't need them anymore.
He is conscious only of God...To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self.
Note to self: When noticing flyaway hairs, do not use lip gloss as an 'on-the-go' hair gel.
There is no self, yet we all exist. All phenomena are "empty," yet they have Buddha nature.
I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false.
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.
Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government.
I am in an extended self-directed course of study. That is, I am in control of my own life.
I have never been particularly impressed by the self centered musings of my fellow writers.
Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.
Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.
Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness
Note to Self - Thoughts design my energy! My thoughts WILL design the energy that moves me!
I'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
Everything turns out to be valuable that one does for one’s self without thought of profit.
So many self-help ideas are like meringue - you take a big bite, and there's nothing there.
If you fail to gain absolute self-control, you have failed in the greatest victory of life.
I like femininity, not of the devout, but of the self-assured, cool and sophisticated kind.
When self-consciousness stops, there is nothing -nothing left to stop, start, begin or end.
To know thyself--in others self-concern; Would'st thou know others? read thyself--and learn!
The dominant mood of contemporary American culture is the self-celebration of the peasantry.
Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not
It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.
I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.
Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
You have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering.
Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.
Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.
Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
I think the great unspoken theme in noir fiction is male self-pity. It pervades noir movies.
Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air.
From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.
Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.
Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.
To search for truth about self is as valuable as to search for truth in other areas of life.
My best male friend is my best friend until he crosses me. We're all protective of the self.
The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.
Let us choose life and love, and happily use our selves up in loving service to one another.
I have amazing collaborators as well, but I want to learn more and be a self-contained unit.
Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.
By 17, I was modeling and had bought myself a flat. I've always tried to be self-sufficient.
Once you create a self-justifying storyline, your emotional entrapment within it quadruples.
When all the false self-identifications are thrown away, what remains is all-embracing love.