I dropped out of college and I'm pretty much a self-educated person, so a lot of my core belief system comes from life.

You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect.

The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining.

The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.

In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.

Apart from a very close circle of friends, few people know my true self, and it's normal, I never put it into my music.

We ought to be people of compassion. And being people of compassion means we deny ourselves, and our self centeredness.

So much of TV seems to be chewing gum for the eyes.... TV desperately needs more self-reliance and pride in the medium.

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.

Worry is momentary atheism crying out for correction by trust in a good, sovereign God. Suffering breaks self-reliance.

Most strong players are completely self-centered.... They are blind to how other people feel or else simply don't care.

It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others

We need to elect leaders who understand that leadership is about loving and serving people, not about self-advancement.

I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.

Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again.

God be thanked for that good and perfect gift, the gift unspeakable: His life, His love, His very self in Jesus Christ.

A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.

I'm proud to call myself a feminist and am proud to say I have two young boys who are self-proclaimed feminists as well.

I came to a clear internal realization that there was nothing I could do as a separated self that would ever fulfill me.

I only write about stuff that’s happened to me.. stuff I can’t get past personally. Luckily, I'm quite self-destructive.

At times we can be self-absorbed. Lord, help us to open our hearts to others and to serve those who are most vulnerable.

In our own selves sometimes we don't feel right in this body. I think it's because our original nature is eternally free

Amazement and wonder signify that one's concepts of self and of the world and of other people are ready to be re-formed.

Peace has been variously defined, but perhaps we might think of it as 'harmony within one's self, and with God and man.'

If you can read, you can find books on anything you want. You can self-educate even if you can't afford to go to school.

I thoroughly enjoy the work I do in helping motivate and empower young girls to celebrate and love their natural selves.

There's a part in every person that has a fake self. We've had this since infancy due to our parents and our upbringing.

It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.

I see no clear reason why the doctrine of self-interest properly understood should turn men away from religious beliefs.

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

Restless thoughts are a kind of mental 'static' which must be silenced if we are to hear the whispers of our inner self.

imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.

We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.

Self-awareness includes awareness of your mental realm, which encompasses your thoughts, feelings, energy, and emotions.

As I am, so are others as others are, so am I. Having thus identified self and others, harm no one nor have them harmed.

Fighting with self!! Why not? If we can live in harmony with self, we also have a full right to fight ourselves as well.

All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?

As you forget self in service to others, you will find that, without seeking it, your own cup of happiness will be full.

My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.

You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.

I had good relationships with stores. And I was like, "All right, I'll self-publish it. But I'm only going to do 1,000."

In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit.

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

(The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none of the self-importance.

When we awaken to the beauty of nature, the doors to our true self are opened up wide, for divine healing on all levels.

If I had one wish, it would be for self-drying pants. Wait -- no! Unlimited wishes! How do I return these stupid pants?!

Life is just masturbation in a sense, mentally. What people do is they just create a world out of their self-reflection.

Seldom can the heart be lonely, If it seek a lonelier still; Self-forgetting, seeking only Emptier cups of love to fill.

What a friend we have in a tree, the tree is the symbol of hope, self improvement and what people can do for themselves.

The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

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