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Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.
The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."
All of us must come to an honest, open self-examination, an awareness within as to who and what we want to be.
Overacting is a self-indulgence, while underacting comes either through a lack of talent or a lack of courage.
Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.
The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.
You know a man can play the part of a saint just so long for a day comes when his true, his true self unfolds.
Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.
My heart needs only one thing. It needs to be guided Along the age-old path Of life-blossoming self-awareness.
In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people.
Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.
Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
Healthy striving is self-focused: "How can I improve?" Perfectionism is other-focused: "What will they think?"
Most of us don't live our lives with one, integrated self that meets the world, we're a whole bunch of selves.
The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.
No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.
Self-care means accepting some risk, and accepting much responsibility. It is not for all people or all cases.
Ultimately all idolatry is worship of the self projected and objectified: all idolization is self-idolization.
Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?
Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.
Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross.
Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people.
The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
Until we recognize the SELF that exists apart from who we think we are - we cannot know the Ch'an ( ZEN ) MIND
In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.
Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.
I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist.
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
My songs are self-explanatory... somebody pointed out to me that... my songs pretty much speak for themselves.
The more government dependents, the more likely that democracy will become a conspiracy against self-reliance.
To really evolve as awareness, be just like your own being in a self like yours and on a planet like this one.
The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi.
A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.
His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.
When you really love, that makes you feel unsure in your self, even though it is love that reaches your heart.
When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.
Dishonoring what we feel is an epidemic that has us self-medicating as a culture and trying to numb ourselves.
Too much self-regard has never struck me as dignified: trying to twist over my shoulder to view my own behind.
For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.
Luckily, I's learned at an early age that self-preservation was the only way to survive with your soul intact.
No matter what the shrinks, or the pundits, or the self-help books tell you, when it comes to love, it's luck.
Few people can fail to generate a self-healing process, when they become genuinely involved in healing others.
I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.
Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence.
'And how, who am I? I will remember, if I can! I'm determined to do it!' But being determined didn't help much.
Self-awareness moves us beyond the old, well-worn pathways in the brain that support fixed, unconscious habits.
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.