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By some fluke, my folks forgot to ask me the question most crucial to ensuring a lifetime of self-doubt: 'What if you fail?
The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
I don't know if there is any specific way to handle emotional pain. Loved ones, music, and self-medicating seem to help me.
Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self. Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there.
Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.
Partly I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last me the rest of my life.
I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense.
True liberty does violence to self and, like Christ, who disregarded that he was sovereign becomes a slave to serve others.
Participants in dance, both dancers and viewers, may experience catharsis and develop a sense of mastery or self-discovery.
A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal.
When you live a life devoid of ritual and convention, with honesty and self-effacement, then you are on the road to freedom.
Careers, children and homemaking all come above preserving your appearance. Self-preservation is at the bottom of the scale.
Self-pity is the most negative quality of the human spirit. Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter.
The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.
Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.
By becoming self-aware, you gain ownership of reality; in becoming real, you become the master of both inner and outer life.
Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.
I believe it is our own misperceptions of who we really are that leads to every self-created hell you'll find in this world.
My work is an exploration of the self. I've always been concerned with how I'm living and how that reflects in the painting.
They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.
Be patient. Like storms, the challenges will pass. Know too, that like the sun, your true soul self is constantly radiating.
When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves.
We are not saved by denying self, or taking up our cross, or doing anything else, we are saved by simply believing in Jesus.
To be extremely self-centred, only interested in your own satisfaction, always brings negative consequences in the long run.
The self is not the individual body or mind, but rather that aspect deep inside each individual person that knows the truth.
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another.
The more that we self-analyze ourselves, the nicer we are to people and to ourselves, and the more we understand each other.
I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in the oyster.
Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self - realisation.
I think the most difficult love begins with one's self. How you treat yourself is something you bring to your relationships.
I've always been a fan of a Johnny Carson because he was so great with an audience and not afraid of self-deprecating humor.
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go ‘Uh, I’m kind of an asshole.’
Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.
Is it not demonstrated that a true flying machine, self-raising, self-sustaining, self-propelling, is physically impossible?
I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.
The vast majority of the students I have taught have become self-sufficient and confident individuals who enjoy their lives.
Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.
It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.
Ultimately one must abandon the path to enlightenment. If you still define yourself as a Buddhist, you are not a buddha yet.
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times. His story is full of adventure, intrigue, betrayal.
We are each the masters of our own reality; when we become self-aware to this: absolutely anything in the world is possible.
Self-realization is a very quiet thing. It's not flashy. No one might see you light up a room. No one might observe anything
It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.
I have brothers, and that so-called boyish quality was something that I was deathly self-conscious about when I was younger.
The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers.