Novel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it.

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

COURAGE is not a quality you teach. Courage is the by-product of self-discipline. It is an ATTITUDE.

Creative activity is one of the few self rewarding activities. Being creative is like being in love!

Albums, with me, have never had an easy birth. Especially when all the songs are self-written songs.

After many years of self-flagellation, I've realised that beating myself up doesn't get me anywhere.

Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.

If self-validation were our most significant societal measure - we would give trophies to ourselves.

The Rationalist case needs no straining of evidence and always gains by the severest self-criticism.

An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself - self-discipline , self-control.

For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.

Every experience is a positive experience if I view it as an opportunity for growth and self-mastery.

It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.

A self needed to spill out sometimes, a body should show evidence of what the hell went on inside it.

I think it's increasingly hard to have deep self-knowledge without entering the darkness in some way.

Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence .

Kindness is something that I feel is leaving us a little bit - people are getting more self-involved.

To get at the truth of your calling, you have to crack open that false self and see what lies within.

Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ is currently so common as to excite little notice.

Many of our problems with anger occur when we choose between having a relationship and having a self.

Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

For, know that each soul constantly meets its own self. No problem may be run away from. Meet it now!

When you're on a boat, it is this tiny little island where you have to be completely self-sufficient.

The tryptamine molecule has this unique property of releasing the structured self into the over-self.

Sport is important for children, especially from disadvantaged places, to bring up their self esteem.

It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.

Nothing is more harmful to the world than a martial art that is not effective in actual self-defense.

I'd like to think of my self as not melancholic at all, I think I'm a pretty cheerful person, really.

The ego is the separate self through which the universal self can experience the adventure of living.

Forgiveness is nothing more and nothing less than an act of self-healing-an act of self-empowermen t.

As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.

Pleasure is a manifestation of self-re-creation. Pleasure is worship because it replenishes the soul.

Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centers all his requirements in himself alone.

No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.

A book is solitude, privacy; it is a way of holding the self apart from the crush of the outer world.

May we all soon go about as our real selves and take joy in it, saying, yes, yes, to whatever we are.

Those who determine not to put self to death will never see the will of God fulfilled in their lives.

The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

To share your spiritual self or grounding with anyone brings about a reality that must assert itself.

That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.

Your job is to allow the Holy Spirit to remove the fearful thinking that surrounds your perfect self.

You can’t put much on paper before you betray your secret self, try as you will to keep things civil.

To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.

The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.

Brokenness involves removing inappropriate pride and self-reliance and building healthy God-reliance.

I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never healthy.

Internet sexuality shows that we're becoming more and more self-involved. I'm talking about self-sex.

I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

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