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There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
Discipline for me is about respect. It's not even about self-respect; it's about respect for life and all it offers.
Be proactive. Ask yourself, "Are my actions based on self-chosen values or on my moods, feelings and circumstances?"
Caution! Be very careful of false, meaningless, self-contradictory, and not even very funny warnings, like this one.
I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing.
It is your holy work, to deeply love, honor and respect the precious self that you are, the soul that only you hold.
Our self-trust is such a subtle thing that it still comes around whispering to us even after we are sure it is gone.
Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves.
We conquer ourselves by learning patience, for she gives to us our longed for victory only in the surrender of self.
Without a rigorous, self-critical discourse, one risks lapsing into pious platitudes and unexamined generalizations.
Your lower self sees you as the center of the universe- your higher self sees you as a cell in the body of humanity.
The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal.
A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.
In the practice of Yoga one can emphasize the body, the mind or the self and hence the effort can never be fruitless.
Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don't like to open a letter that has bad news.
We're so very focused on ourselves and on self-promotion. It goes on all day with Facebook and Twitter and Instagram.
The only way to reach the mountain peaks of life is to forget about self and help other people reach greater heights.
I'm a really big believer in self care. One of the ways I nourish my soul is I eat the way I live my life - joyfully.
Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.
Doubt, not self-reflection, comes from a destructive energy, and when it rears its head, I talk to it like a lunatic.
The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.
The satisfactions people derive from what they do are determined to a large degree by their self-evaluative standards
The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.
I'm much more self-conscious clothed than unclothed. I'm a frustrated Page Three girl. I have no shame about my body.
To achieve happiness I advocate four major principles, the principles of love, wisdom, self-reflection, and progress.
Al Gore is producing enough hot air to make his doomsday predictions about global warming a self-fulfilling prophecy.
A companion is but another self; wherefore it is an argument that a man is wicked if he keep company with the wicked.
Bring your whole self to work because, that way, you can bring full ideas and the wholeness of your unique abilities.
As I see it every single day you do one in every of two issues: construct well being or produce illness in your self.
Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
The real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool.
There is a public me and a private me, who, if they were separate people, probably wouldn't exchange Christmas cards.
The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.
No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still trying to live down.
Surrounded by noises from televisions, airplanes, subways and automobiles, most of us 'tune out' for self-protection.
Life is magical. There is something wonderful in being alive, in having within one's self all sorts of possibilities.
For in this walk, this voyage, it is yourself, the profound history of your 'self,' that now as always you encounter.
The Self cannot leave You. Awareness cannot leave You. Everything else will leave You. But Awareness is what You Are.
MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.
It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
The deeper I go into myself, the stronger I become, because I realize that my real self is much bigger than any fear.
One of the keys to harnessing this potentially unlimited power of the mind is to expand your level of self-awareness.
No matter how I might feel about myself or my self-image, there is still a part of me that wants to fight to the end.
The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.
Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war.
We need not seek a cause or a motive or a purpose for that which is, in its nature, eternally self-existent and free.
My parents both worked full time. I remember a lot of simple meals. Everything I know about cooking is self-schooled.
The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.
You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self.