Self Quotes - Page 151

I don't stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil.

Give me the death of my soul. Intoxicate me with self-love.

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

Live your life as you see fit. That's not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit.

A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly

Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.

I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul

If you know yourself, you are doomed.

The True Self is infinite. It knows no boundaries. Pure essence. Pure light. Engulfing the mind, the soul, the body, the invisible real, with its radiance.

Freedom [should not be] conceived negatively as exemption from social influences or situational constraints. Rather...positively as the exercise of self-influence to bring about desired results.

Even the self-assured will raise their perceived self-efficacy if models teach them better ways of doing things.

Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.

No matter what the shrinks, or the pundits, or the self-help books tell you, when it comes to love, it's luck.

Do you have agendas for your children that are more important than the children themselves? Lost in the shuffle of uniforms, practices, games, recitals, and performances can be the creative and joyful soul of your child. Watch and listen carefully. Do they have time to daydream? From their dreams will emerge the practices and activities that will make self-discipline as natural as breathing.

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

I've never been a conceited person or cocky, never felt boastful, but I always had a sense of self-worth; I always had a real sense of myself.

Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense perception as bodily processes, and accordingly form part of that total environment which we name the external world.

You have to believe in yourself in spite of what other people believe.

Hazing is both testing and training to subordinate self to the team.

... Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death. Sympathy for the afflicted makes a reality of the affliction by its recognition as an infliction, while sorrow for the loss of anything, or for the »unfortunate« condition of anybody, is forgetful of the beauty and abundance of all-giving God and Nature. The Mind of God knows but one unchanging emotion - ECSTASY - the ecstasy of Love - the ecstasy which has its beginnings in an inner joyousness of one who is far on the road to the discovery of his immortal Self.

To exercise some sort of control over others is the secret motive of every selfish person.

When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.