Self Quotes - Page 282

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.

If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.

Our true passions are selfish.

Under examination by the camera, a human body becomes for its inhabitant a field of betrayal more than a ground of communication, and the camera's further power is manifested as it documents the individual's self-conscious efforts to control the body each time it is conscious of the camera's attention to it.

Be yourself. A horse without the lancer is still a horse; a lancer without the horse is just a man.

However great the work that God may achieve by an individual, he must not indulge in self-satisfaction. He ought rather to be all the more humbled, seeing himself merely as a tool which God has made use of.

When all the false self-identifications are thrown away, what remains is all-embracing love.

You are already perfect, only you don't know it. Learn to know yourself and you will discover wonders.

The one aim of [my] yoga is an inner self-development by which each one who follows it can in time discover the One Self in all and evolve a higher consciousness than the mental, a spiritual and supramental consciousness which will transform and divinize human nature.

You are unique, and there may be incidents in your experience that are more noble and praiseworthy in their way than those recorded in any other life. There may be a flash of illumination here and a story of faithfulness there; you should truthfully record your real self and not what other people may see in you.

You have to hide what you are and it's really stressful and very bad for your self esteem. Because it's not obvious to people that you are ill, they treat you as if you're a pain in the ass, then you beat yourself up and you are already beating yourself up as a part of mental illness.

Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.

The teaching which is written on paper is not the true teaching. Written teaching is a kind of food for your brain. Of course it is necessary to take some food for your brain, but it is more important to be yourself by practicing the right way of life.

Make sure you don't become the very thing you find yourself fighting against.

With color, for the price of a pot of paint, people can express their own style and individuality. But, as with style, a gift for color has to be developed by experiment. If you don't dare, you are doomed to dullness.

If it had taught them nothing else, twenty years of living past high school had taught them self-preservation. ... No one was going to risk putting his ego on the line; they would come prepared with dates, flattering clothes, and a well-rehearsed, carefully edited biography. They would all be kind to each other. High school was enough torture for one lifetime.

You can love other people only to the degree that you've come to love and accept yourself

Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!

Stressed souls need the reassuring rhythm of self-nurturing rituals.

I shall gather myself into my self again, I shall take my scattered selves and make them one.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.

Self-image, the concept we have of ourselves, must begin not by looking in the mirror but by looking into the face of God.

If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.

There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past.