Self Quotes - Page 220

One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.

Let us be today's Christians. Let us not take fright at the boldness of today's church. With Christ's light let us illuminate even the most hideous caverns of the human person: torture, jail, plunder, want, chronic illness. The oppressed must be saved, not with a revolutionary salvation, in mere human fashion, but with the holy revolution of the Son of Man, who dies on the cross to cleanse God's image, which is soiled in today's humanity, a humanity so enslaved, so selfish, so sinful.

Think health, eat sparingly, exercise regularly, walk a lot, and think positively about yourself.

Know that you yourself are a miracle.

We are becoming a nation of sissies and hypochondriacs, a self medicating society easily intimidated by pain and prone to panic. We understand almost nothing about the essential robustness of the human body or its ability to meet the challenge of illness.

Self Realization is the first encounter with reality.

I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak.

I thought the popular kids were the cool kids. I got caught up in that, and it was bogus. School is about finding who you are because thats more important than not being yourself.

Could hell be a place where there is no self-respect? A place where people have no pride in their own existence or behavior, and thus would have none for anyone or anything else?

The purpose of life is to know yourself, create yourself, experience yourself as Who You Really Are. There is no other reason to do anything.

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.

To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.

The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.

We're so very focused on ourselves and on self-promotion. It goes on all day with Facebook and Twitter and Instagram.

Of course I was wearing make-up, I never went anywhere without red lipstick for 25 years! It was a form of self-preservation for me to continue to wear lipstick even though my face was broken.

Attention pays attention to a lot of things, but when attention pays attention to attention, then there is a stillness, and that stillness introduces you to your Self.

I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance.

The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge and it is usually acquired laboriously through experience outside the classroom.

It was on the cross of Calvary that God, in Christ, dealt fully and finally with self, the nature from which all our sins flow.

Never say that you can't do something, or that something seems impossible, or that something can't be done, no matter how discouraging or harrowing it may be; human beings are limited only by what we allow ourselves to be limited by: our own minds. We are each the masters of our own reality; when we become self-aware to this: absolutely anything in the world is possible

Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be.

Don't believe me, don't believe yourself, and don't believe anyone else.

Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant.

Be yourself. Follow your heart. I know it sounds obvious, but it's the best advice at anyone ever. Take advice from other people, but take from it what feels right for you.