Self Quotes - Page 291

That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.

I think there is something a little too self conscious about enjoying being an outsider.

During the latency years, American children need experiences that promote academic talents, a sense of responsibility, and most important, a belief that they can attain the goals valued by self and community. They need reassurance that these goals are attainable.

Gaining control over your health and well-being is one of those times in your life that you get to be completely selfish and not feel bad about it. If you want to meet your goals, you have to make it about you. You have to make it work for you and you alone. Anything less is a setup for failure.

As weird and awful and terrible as it may seem to be yourself sometimes, it will always reward you.

Courage is a self-inflicted quality that gains momentum every time you try it.

CONTROL MYSELF?!! I'm a MONSTER! Monsters don't control themselves! That's the whole IDEA!

Therefore, if you are attacked, retaliate instantly. Be sudden. Be quick. Speed is your salvation.

Let your attacker worry about his life. Don't hold back. Strike no more after he is incapable of further action, but see that he is stopped.

It's a matter of will. If you know that you can keep your head, and that you must keep your head, you probably will keep your head.

Loneliness isn't about being by yourself. That's fine, right and good, desirable in many ways. Loneliness is about finding a landing-place, or not, and knowing that, whatever you do, you can go back there. The opposite of loneliness isn't company, it's return. A place to return.

Supreme happiness consists in self-content.

The structure of the Swiss ruling class is rock-hard, and unchanged since the time of Napoleon. They sit on their mountains and lecture the world on democracy. It's an unbelievable show of self-satisfaction and arrogance.

The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others.

You have friends who actually care about you and speak the language of the inner self. You have avoided them of late. Your soul is as disheveled as your apartment, and until you can clean it up a little you don't want to invite anyone inside.

I just think it's really important to be yourself and not trying to be something you're not.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Based on our natural heritage as the Divine Light of God, every one of us possesses intuition... defined as the language of the soul.

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn't want to sacrifice the ladies!

I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.

As you expand your meditation practice, in concert with your faith, you will find that these divine moments come more often, until you are finally awakened to your own deepest self, one with Christ.

Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother.

When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.