Self Quotes - Page 239

Adam Smith had one overwhelmingly important triumph: he put into the center of economics the systematic analysis of the behavior of individuals pursuing their self-interest under conditions of competition.

Night is the mother of counsels.

The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite.

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

There is no question you get pumped up by the recognition. Then a self-loathing sets in when you realise you're enjoying it.

The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

There's a treasury full of jade and jewels; It is in you. Don't go searching far from home for it-it's here.

Release old concepts and energies that keep you in self-punishment patterns. Release old stories and create from a place of love and self-validation. You are worth it!

The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires a letting go of the techniques that worked before. With each passage some magic must be given up, some cherished illusion of safety and comfortably familiar sense of self must be cast off, to allow for the greater expansion of our distinctiveness.

The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.

Alas! how many souls there are full of self, and yet desirous of doing good and serving God, but in such a way as to suit themselves; who desire to impose rules upon God as to His manner of drawing them to Himself. They want to serve and possess Him, but they are not willing to be possessed by Him.

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.

The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

Perfect self-expression will never be labor, but of such absorbing interest that it will seem almost like play.

Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear, the same self-doubts . . . and I have only one source on which I can draw, because it comes from within me.

You've always made the mistake of being yourself.

Such to me is the new image of aging; growth in self, and service for all mankind.

No self is of itself alone.

The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.

Spirituality points, always, beyond: beyond the ordinary, beyond possession, beyond the narrow confines of the self, and - above all - beyond expectations. Because "the spiritual" is beyond our control, it is never exactly what we expect.

If, because of anxiety and self-doubt, you procrastinate and only think about working, you'll feel more exhausted than if you'd created for hours.

Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth .

You're a woman, enjoy yourself, and believe that you can do things.