Self Quotes - Page 229

A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.

We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.

I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.)

It's so hard for women to be happy for one another, like genuinely happy. Once you find that, you know you've found true SELF happiness.

It seemed to Alabama that, reaching her goal, she would drive the devils that had driven her - that, in proving herself, she would achieve that peace which she imagined went only in surety of one’s self - that she would be able, through the medium of the dance, to command her emotions, to summon love or pity or happiness at will, having provided a channel through which they might flow. She drove herself mercilessly, and the summer dragged on.

I don't think there are any rules in real face-to-face relationships or interactions. I think authenticity and being yourself is always, without a doubt, the best plan of action. Things happen differently when you're actually here, so you can't put out a general guideline that's gonna show up in text and be interpreted. There are no rules. Just be yourself.

The fact is ones own voice is not heard anywhere else. Its a challenge to be yourself. It takes a lot of courage.

It is a wretched thing that the young men of today are so contriving and so proud of their material posessions. Men with contriving hearts are lacking in duty. Lacking in duty, they will have no self-respect.

I'm awash in self-contempt!

What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.

Don’t be afraid to be yourself and don’t let anybody tell you that that’s wrong. Because the best thing is you.

A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.

Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.

Naturalism is the view that the physical world is a self-contained system that works by blind, unbroken natural laws. Naturalism doesn't come right out and say there's nothing beyond nature. Rather, it says that nothing beyond nature could have any conceivable relevance to what happens in nature. Naturalism's answer to theism is not atheism but benign neglect. People are welcome to believe in God, though not a God who makes a difference in the natural order.

Self worth cannot be verified by others. You are worthy because you say it is so. If you depend on others for your value it is other-worth.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

In the hierarchy of colors, green represents the social middle class, self-satisfied, immovable, narrow.

The great lesson to learn of life is the need of giving out from the abundance of one's self in order to be ever abundant within one's self.

I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.

Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless.

For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.

I'm an actor, that's what I do every day. Dressing up is part of my job. But whatever you wear you should always be yourself: never go totally with the fashion but use what there is available to be an individual.

Don't try to be unafraid. That is impossible. Rather, go ahead while being afraid. That is the entire secret for abolishing fear. The Supermind teaches us to have no self-concern at all. Whatever happens to you, act as though it happened to someone else.

The first chess book that I read was Dufresne's self-tutor, published with Lasker's Common Sense in Chess as an appendix.

The only thing you can do through all the scrutiny and just in life in general is be true to yourself.