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I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.
Religion becomes a hollow shell of its former self when ritual remains and thoughtful reflection disappears.
When you're younger, you're more selfish, because there's so much self-exploration, you're in your own mind.
Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life.
There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance--do not sacrifice that to anything else.
I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage.
SeLF censorsHIP? Not my strong suit...I dont want to be a total d o u c h e b a g , but a little bit of one.
I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.
Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace.
Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident.
If I could send a message back to my younger self, it would be: Do not work for the State Department at all.
The kingdom of self tends to be more focused on what the hands can touch than what the heart should embrace.
Books seek us out. They slip themselves into our hands just at the time we are ready for a new self-concept.
Self-study, in a sense of learning by yourself without anybody teaching you anything, has an enormous value.
I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.
We have nothing to lose by trusting the infinite power of the Self, except the bondage of our own ignorance.
The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
Self-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together.
There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears.
I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.
Everybody wants confidence but you don't find it in self help books. You find confidence in the Holy Spirit.
I really love being in postproduction. First of all, it's all quite self-interested: You can protect things.
Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity
What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, To know one's self. And what was easy, To advise another.
I don't want to be skinny. I'm constantly in a state of self-improvement but I don't beat myself up over it.
What was so miraculous about a relationship that was based more on my gratitude than on mutual self respect?
All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.
Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.
Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.
If I were a bad black comic I would name my special, Yo mama, and other stories of a lack of self awareness.
The life of a winner is the result of an unswerving commitment to a never-ending process of self-completion .
Today's reports confirm that, unfortunately, post-crisis America is still not back to its good economic self.
Chicken exits are self-sabotage. They give you a false explanation for why you don't have something you want.
The object of the Gita appears to me to be that of showing the most excellent way to attain self-realization.
Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.
Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.
The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.
If any one hates to be alone with himself, the chances are that he has not much of any self to be alone with.
The souls now incarnating are power souls. It is a dark age. To incarnate now one needs psychic self-defense.
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.
Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.
It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.
Nothing puts the dignity in personal dignity (or the freedom in personal freedom) like the self in self-rule.
To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything.
In that undifferentiated reality of the Self there is eternal bliss. All the phantoms of existence fade away.
I wanted to protect the songs. I wanted to make sure I could write freely and not be self-conscious about it.
I have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world.
Pain and suffering are two completely difference experiences. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is self-created.