Real human purpose in life is to realise self. I am on the path to spirituality, to realise my inner self.

Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.

I have days of self-doubt, but I think the kindest thing I can do to myself is accept where my body is at.

A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.

I would have swapped out Donald Trump's frontal cortex for somebody else's for a little more self-control.

Self-regulation stands in relation to regulation the way self-importance stands in relation to importance.

We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.

The miracle of enlightenment is that you take the self and let it dissolve in the white light of eternity.

My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity.

Kindness can reach the deepest call of the heart and soul, and lead to a different kind of world and self.

A just cause should need no interpretation yet flounders when confronted by self- interest and corruption.

To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.

Reality TV is the perfect antidote to people who don't have enough self-centered douchebags in their life.

You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.

I'd probably say to my younger self, get yourself a whole collection of lawyers. Which is what I have now.

With self-acceptance, we have the ability to choose compassion and forgiveness over anger and self-hatred.

O abyss! O eternal Godhead! O deep sea! What more could you have given me than the gift of your very self?

When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.

In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain.

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

Only when human beings are able to perceive and acknowledge the Self in each other can there be real peace.

Only the individual who has come to terms with his self can have a dispassionate attitude toward the world.

If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression .

The wise treat self-respect as non-negotiable, and will not trade it for health or wealth or anything else.

Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.

Only in America could you find a way to make a healthy buck, And still keep your attitude on self-destruct.

Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse.

Most apparent conspiracies result from consistent local self-interest with no need for global coordination.

Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.

For a person to feel responsible for his actions, he must sense that the behavior has flowed from the self.

I'm always trying to prove to my 17-year-old self that I can do creative things I thought weren't possible.

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.

There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.

Self-evidently, dangerous climate change will not emerge from a normal scientific process of truth seeking.

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms.

The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

I think this is what college is all about: self-examination and dealing with those questions of "Who am I?"

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.

A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them.

Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are.

within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties.

my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.

The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Free will is "corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds"

The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.

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