Self Quotes - Page 178

We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.

A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.

When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic.

Look the world straight in the eye.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?

You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.

My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit. Because that person doesn't need the goddamn government for anything.

If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.

Greater in battle than the man who would conquer a thousand-thousand men, is he who would conquer just one — himself. Better to conquer yourself than others. When you've trained yourself, living in constant self-control, neither a deva nor gandhabba, nor a Mara banded with Brahmas, could turn that triumph back into defeat.

Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.

What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.

Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself.

Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of our self-confidence.

All our suffering is associated with this pre-occupation. All loss and gain, pleasure and pain arise because we identify so closely with this vague feeling of selfness that we have. We are so emotionally involved with and attached to this "self" that we take it for granted.

Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women are they, whose sympathies have had the widest culture, whose aims do not end with self, whose philanthropy, though centrifugal, reaches around the globe.

You have to listen to your own voice. Not your heart, not your instincts, not any of that self-permissive psycho-babble stuff. No, none of that. If it was just about instincts and bright ideas it wouldn't need to be a voice. It's about words. You hear them, read them, then you write. But mostly read. Read the bloody poems.

Cats invented self-esteem; there is not an insecure bone in their body.

The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

My most earnest of all pleas to singles is abandonment of the self, surrender to Christ of all unfulfilled longings, an unequivocal willingness to receive whatever God assigns, and a determination to practice the sacrificial principle of Isaiah 58:10-11. Life becomes not only far simpler, but surprisingly joyful and free.

To have "It", the fortunate possessor must have that strange magnetism which attracts both sexes. He or she must be entirely unselfconscious and full of self-confidence, indifferent to the effect he or she is producing, and uninfluenced by others. There must be physical attraction, but beauty is unnecessary.