There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.

Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.

Humble yourself, you’ll grow greater than the world.Your Self will be revealed to you, without you.

This is not the case. There is nothing that is not the Self. The Self does not have to be realized.

In all unbelief there are these two things: a good opinion of one's self, and a bad opinion of God.

That is a Nazi expression. The Nazis called Germans who defended Jewish rights self-hating Germans.

Self-love is so monogamous that no one is going to take the trouble to break the affair up for you.

I always return to Paris, taking my selves along - past self, customary self, the self I never had.

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.

He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably.

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

Few things turn-off an audience more than a performer with an air of self-imporance or a 'message.'

The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.

Should we become so proficient at self-presentation that we can dissemble without anyone suspecting?

Discipleship is the pursuit of holiness and happiness. It is the path to our best and happiest self.

I'm just shallow and self-interested, and don't get out much because I'm afraid of real commitments.

People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.

Bodies come and go, ages come and go, yugas come and go, eternities come and go. Selves come and go.

When we successfully deceive others, they are not aware of it; the same is true with self-deception.

My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.

Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?

Self-mastery is the challenge of transforming yourself from own worst enemy into your greatest ally.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

Measures of self-precept must be tailored to the domain of psychological functioning being explored.

Self-discipline is a rigorous process at best; too many of us want it to be effortless and painless.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool.

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations.

People don't place their trust in government or company pension plans; they have to be self-reliant.

In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.

In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.

Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.

Brokenness is the shattering of my self-will - the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God.

I believe in self-defense and self-determination for Africans and other oppressed people in America.

Purify yourself from the attributes of self, so that you may see your own pure, untarnished essence.

Without self-discipline, a noncommissioned officer can never develop or maintain personal integrity.

The best thing about bugs is their lack of self consciousness, also the ability to fly doesn't hurt.

We are all so self-obsessed, not really helping others as we should, spreading the love so to speak.

Self-realization is not the awareness that this world is a dream, that's a part of self-realization.

It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.

If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

My father wanted me to learn self-defense, so I enrolled in the Academy and loved it from the start.

I have nothing but wastes and wilds of self-translation before me for many miserable months to come.

The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.

Move it along, teenagers. The only person who gets to canoodle in my bedroom is my magnificent self.

He (the Shaman) is a self-reliant explorer of the endless mansions of a magnificent hidden universe.

The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is 'I'; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.

[A]lthough the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.

Pray to yourself, because I'm in your self and you're in My self. We are one Spirit, saith the Lord.

The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.

Virtually every spiritual tradition teaches that your higher self is the presence of God within you.

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