Self Quotes - Page 192

Freedom means self-fulfillment. It also means putting up with other people's irritating pursuit of the same. It means being confronted by disturbing images and ideas.

He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord - including darkness, dryness, flatness - and completely disregard self is he who lives for Him.

We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

Whether you say you can't or you can, you're right.

Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.

You don't worry about being liked. You have to be yourself.

I think there's something we all relate to about...wanting to get to our most primal self.

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. In other words, man is ultimately self-determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.

I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.

Gandhi’s idea of swadeshi—that local societies should put their own resources and capacities to use to meet their needs as a basic element of freedom—is becoming increasingly relevant. We cannot afford to forget that we need self-rule, especially in this world of globalization.

It's important to be yourself. What art does for everyone, helps you understand yourself and in a distilled way, whether it's a painting or a scene in acting or a joke. It distills something about everyday life that can be important to you.

Women with low self-esteem love bad boys. Women who have work to do love bad boys. Women who love themselves love good men.

A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.

The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Once in a while you find yourself in an odd situation. You get into it by degrees and in the most natural way but, when you are right in the midst of it, you are suddenly astonished and ask yourself how in the world it all came about.

It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.

Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.

What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.

If you can't be yourself, what's the point of being anyone else?

I have a job to pay attention. It is my number one duty as a human being - to earn an experiment in self-government every day by spotlighting cockroaches who violate their oath to the US constitution and wipe their ass with the US Constitution.

I’ve always been a person who’s been true to myself and true to others and I’m not afraid to be honest.

Self-discovery means learning to live free!

Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.

That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.

Our best work is done, our greatest influence is exerted, when we are without thought of self.