Self Quotes - Page 23

The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.

It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no doubt, be recognized as a Person; but he or she has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness.

Very often we don’t go elsewhere because we are looking for another person. We go elsewhere because we are looking for another self. It isn’t so much that we want to leave the person we are with as we want to leave the person we have become.

I see what you mean. It must be a huge relief, and an easy way out, to think the devil is always outside of us. (…) we would stop looking for Sheitan outside and instead focus on ourselves. What we need is sincere self-examination. Not being on the watch for the faults of others.” (p. 257).

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder.

I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?

The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Know yourself to improve yourself.

If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the internalized sentences, or self-talk, with which one largely created the feeling in the first place.

Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.

It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each other’s pockets and somehow get rich.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self-determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers.

The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should guarantee to every citizen the free and inoffensive use of his faculties for physical, intellectual and moral self-improvement. Instead, it is demanded that the law should directly extend welfare, education, and morality throughout the nation. This is the seductive lure of socialism. And I repeat: these two uses of the law are in direct contradiction to each other.

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves. We are left with sagging, rippled flesh and burning gums with empty sockets.

Unless you really understand others, you can hardly attain your own self-understanding.

Subjecting yourself to vigourous training is more for the sake of forging a resolute spirit that can vanquish the self than it is for developing a strong body.