Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Your self-sacrificin g devotion to your purpose in life and your unwavering faith will carry you through times of difficulty.
Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.
The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its own.
For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters.
Braai Day is a slap in the face of our efforts to regain who we are. And should make any self respecting South African cringe.
If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted.
We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.
Oh blind! Oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs us so in the short mortal life and steeps us so through all eternity!
She thinks, "Hey, How did I come to this? I dream myself a thousand times around the world, But I can't get out of this place"
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
If you keep changing for every person who tells you to, then who's going to be left? Why get the success and be somebody else?
I was always rather outspoken. I worried about what people thought of me but there really wasn't room for a lot of self-doubt.
We should devote ourselves to being self-sufficient and must not depend upon the external ratings by others for our happiness.
A lover is never a completely self-reliant person viewing the world through his own eyes, but a hostage to a certain delusion.
The worst case scenario is you really like someone's work, then you meet them and they're a self-involved, entitled douchebag.
A master blesses calamity, for the master knows that from the seeds of disaster (and all experience) comes the growth of self.
Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's life and craft.
When we give up our images of self-importance and our ideas of what should be, we can help things become what they need to be.
I probably couldn't have the same experience listening to that song because I'm self-conscious about some of my singing parts.
... I felt like a new man; but I was disappointed with the photographic documentation because I still saw always the old self.
We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.
I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.
One of the most effective ways to overcome anxiety is to try to shift the focus of attention away from self and toward others.
The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth
When the mind adjusts to simply staying here, then that mind is not called mind any more. It's just Self. It's only ever Self.
I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.
Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
All the harm, fear, and suffering in the world are caused by attachment to the self: Why should I hold on to this great demon?
We all know the part of us that needs to be harnessed. It takes someone else to know the part of us that needs to be set free.
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding.
Every type of evil we've got in us is the result of that one true illness of the human mind - that is, of being self-centered.
Business coaching and the personal development and self-help industry is considered to be one of the booming industries today.
When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.
The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.
The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ.
I wish I could say that when I didn't agree with a director I defer to him, but I think sometimes I'm a little self-righteous.
I feel like I've been able to be my true self and discover what I can honestly bring to the table by working with other women.
Meditation means to be in non-doing. Meditation is not a doing but a state of being. It is a state of being in one's own self.
The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.
Everything is part of one web, one matrix of existence, beyond discussion. This is our true self in its undifferentiated form.
Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.
Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.
I suppose it’s comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict.
My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am.
"Self-taught, are you?" Julian Castle asked Newt. "Isn't everybody?" Newt inquired. "Very good answer." Castle was respectful.
I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.
A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open.
A self-help book can't really address a problem unless it's individualized. It's not going to talk about a globalized problem.