It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.

Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine.

As we immerse ourselves in the service of others, we find our spiritual selves and come unto Him.

Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.

When you give yourself away you find that a new and more real self has somehow been given to you.

There is something beautiful about photography; it allows the self to be reunited with the world.

Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method.

I wasn’t old enough to realize that I could be my terrible self and have people love me for that.

There is always enough self-love hidden beneath the greatest devoutness to set limits on charity.

People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.

Successful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose.

The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.

Well, guess what, I’m Cuban! And no self-respecting Cuban man of the era would let his wife work.

The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.

There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.

I don't necessarily self-identify as a writer, 'cause it implies a certain level of intelligence.

The perceiver of the dream, the one whom the dream is unfolding before, is what we call the Self.

What is guilt? It is moral self-reproach-I did wrong when it was possible to have done otherwise.

I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!

Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.

Happiness is being at peace with yourself while the self is united with a larger order of things.

I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?

The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.

The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance.

For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi.

Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.

All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them.

Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.

Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.

That love of self, which the world advocates, is a thousand times more dangerous than any poison.

In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.

I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves

Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.

Will we fulfill God's purpose, or will we shrink back and live a comfortable, self-centered life?

We have an infinite capacity for self interest, yet the infinite has absolutely no interest in us

Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.

When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.

Mysticism is an eclectic mixture of various forms of self-discovery that's primarily experimental.

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.

It was an addiction. A pointless, self-destructive addiction. But really, is there any other kind?

Honer and self sacrifice. Death does not diminish these qualities in a soldier. We shall remember.

Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.

It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of high maturity, to rise to the level of self-criticism.

Proper business planning demands that you focus on the self-interest of the customer at all times.

It's a struggle for me to watch things I've been in because I'm just distracted and self-critical.

I've finally tapped into that spirit of self-destruction that makes rock-n-roll the king of music!

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