Self Quotes - Page 318

You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.

As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

The core of my personality consists of many selves.

The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible.

The system knows how to cherry pick black people. It's like affirmative action - once a year, one is recognized. But what has to occur is self-emergence so if they ignore you, you don't have to disappear.

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.

Far from wife and son am 1, far from land and wealth and other notions of that kind. I am the Witness, the Eternal, the Inner Self.

A 'treat' is different from a 'reward', which must be justified or earned. A treat is a small pleasure or indulgence that we give to ourselves just because we want it. Treats give us greater vitality, which boosts self-control, which helps us maintain our healthy habits.

Knowing what you admire in others is a wonderful mirror into your deepest, as yet unborn, self.

Count your blessings for selfish reasons! Psychological studies show that people who are aware of their blessings and feel grateful for them live longer than non-grateful people, have fewer medical problems such as hypertension, earn more and achieve longer marriages.

Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction.

Catching myself in the moment. Then I remember facts are just facts, circumstances are merely circumstances. Whenever I can catch myself having a negative thought, I do Self I-Dentity through Ho'oponopono by saying to myself the phrases "I love you," "I'm sorry," "Please forgive me," "Thank you" in any particular order.

Self-expression is a hard and selfish thing. It eats everything, even the self. At the end you find you haven't even got a self to express.

Become more and more centered in the Self. To live more and more in the thought that God is here in your consciousness.

Well, we all know that self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you.

Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

People have evolved into something selfish, greedy and intolerant. People are unaccepting, because of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation... I've seen it in punk clubs, and I've seen it in the world.

The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.

Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

In the end, trying to be perfect is the unconscious social effort to please ourselves by pleasing these others.

The self is no mystery, the mystery is / That there is something for us to stand on

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.

I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.

My advice: Just keep movin' straight ahead. Every now and then you find yourself in a different place.