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There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.
The biographer who writes the life of his subjects self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.
We cannot love others as others unless we possess suficient self-love, a love we learn from being loved in infancy.
Like any art, the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible. It requires training as well as magic.
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
The way in which I create myself is by means of a quest. I go out into the world in order to come back with a self.
The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.
Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.
If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Loneliness is dangerous ... because if aloneness does not lead to God, it leads to the devil. It leads to the self.
We should self-examine and talk about things like our own white privilege and these phony senses of being an artist.
The real religion is not imitation of anybody else, it is a search to find out your own authentic self, who you are.
Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating.
George smiles to himself, with entire self-satisfaction. Yes, I am crazy, he thinks. That is my secret; my strength.
Self government is no less essential to the development, growth, and happiness of the individual than to the nation.
The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening.
Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.
Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.
When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.
Every problem contains a solution. The key is self-discipline and surrender of the mental habits to the Holy Spirit.
The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd. We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.
There is a subtle but inescapable connection between the "sacred" attitude and the acceptance of one's in most self.
Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express.
Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.
The only real help is self-help. Anything else is just designed to get you to the point where you can help yourself.
If we want to awaken, we don't need to eradicate the ego, we simply need to be conscious of the deeper self as well.
Then Maura made something with butter and Calla made something with bacon and Blue steamed broccoli in self-defense.
What do you have to do? Pack your bags, Go to the station without them, Catch the train, And leave your self behind.
It is hardly possible to suspect another without having in one's self the seeds of baseness the party is accused of.
I am a self-proclaimed "fitness addict," so I am one of those people who actually really, really enjoys working out.
Confidence equals contentment with self; contentment is knowing you have all you need for the present circumstances.
People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.
The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed.
I have come to think of violence as a self-perpetuating mania of the power of the aggressive over those less strong.
We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.
It's never too late to redefine self-control, to change long-ingrained habits, and to do the work you're capable of.
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.
And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.
We dream of a day when India is completely self-reliant in defence production & exports defence equipment worldwide.
Self-criticism sessions were held, but these produced more criticism than could usefully be absorbed or accomodated.
I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.
God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the "self-made men", who take the credit.
Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self.
The known unseen within becomes structural in what is seen: a being functioning as a self, in person, in this world.
For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good horse.
I'm not saying my mother-in-law is fat - because she is of reasonable size, and I care about her and her self-image.
For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I'd get self-conscious.
All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.