Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.

Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.

The ideas that we have about self are an aggregate within a state of mind, and they chain us to a state of mind.

By learning to trust your intuition, miracles seem to happen. Intuitive thoughts are gifts from the higher self.

Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.

A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument.

Disaster mitigation... increases the self reliance of people who are at risk - in other words, it is empowering.

To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word.

The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.

Grit, determination, the right amount of crazy, self belief - everything it takes to be a champion. I have that.

Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work.

True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.

When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back.

The integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies.

Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen, and you need not search for truth; truth will find you.

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.

The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

I do believe that an actor, who is self aware, will never do a film that is not an extension of his personality.

It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me.

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.

National self-sufficiency or "autarchy" is the ideal of [Adolf] Hitler, not of [Karl] Marx and [Vladimir] Lenin.

I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.

It took cancer to realize that being self-centered is not the way to live. The answer is to try and help others.

The self plays among the waves of existence. It surfaces, it comes up for a while, and then it disappears again.

You have to self-reflect. If you forget who you actually are, then what's the use of even looking in the mirror.

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life.

The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?

Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'.

I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.

Whenever there is a conflict between universal principles and self-interest, self-interest is likely to prevail.

I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.

Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself.

Winning and losing isn't what's important. The attempt at success and getting to your best self is what matters.

People need to be re - sometimes we need to reinvent ourselves and then get reacquainted with our better selves.

None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated.

On waking from the dream, we see that birth and death, the sense of self, other - all of these things fade away.

Self-Checkout Line – The place where customers of an establishment become unpaid employees of the establishment.

The cosmos is evolving toward greater self-reflection, allowing us to open the eye of Spirit and see our source.

Even the self-assured will raise their perceived self-efficacy if models teach them better ways of doing things.

What is so priceless about being the selves we were created to grow into is that it's impossible to do it wrong.

Most people have a time-bound awareness. And the reason is they have sacrificed their self for their self-image.

Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical.

In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others.

If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.

In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.

I'm a person who goes by what I feel like and almost no one can tell me what to do. It's always self-motivation.

If you die of cancer with only openness and softness in your heart, you will live and die integrating your self.

Tracy: Stop eating people's old french fries, little pigeon. Have some self-respect. Don't you know you can fly?

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

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