Self Quotes - Page 346

If you begin to give away parts of yourself, eventually you'll give it all. And once you've lost yourself, haven't you lost everything?

What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always hurdle self-interest? Or is it, more simply, that wanting to know the worst is love's favorite perversion.

We imagine that if we had time we would quiet our more shallow selves and listen to a deeper flow of inspiration. Again, this is a myth that lets us off the hook - if I wait for enough time to listen, I don't have to listen now, I don't have to take responsibility for being available to what is trying to bubble up today.

Popular sovereignty has to be given by a people to itself, and this is the important meaning of self-determination.

You will never enjoy life if you do not enjoy yourself.

The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.

If you follow only one rule, let it be this one: Be yourself. The really strong boy-girl relationships are based on what people really are, not on what they pretend to be. Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves.

Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.

At first you might find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred space and use it, eventually something will happen. Your sacred space is where you find yourself again and again.

To live is to feel oneself lost.

When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself

The more and more that you dance, the easier it gets, and the more you can push yourself and do more rehearsals.

Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.

Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

My definition of success: When your core values and self-concept are in harmony with your daily actions and behaviors.

We are working on creating self-describing, self-organizing, self-diagnosing and self-repairing networks.

If you find yourself perplexed, or perhaps in a quandary, remember that human growth is perpendicular. We grow up and we grow forward, we just have to keep on growing steadily in both ways.

The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.

Love brings you face to face with your self. It's impossible to love another if you cannot love yourself.

Be patient. Like storms, the challenges will pass. Know too, that like the sun, your true soul self is constantly radiating.

Our own self-awareness arises not in the Cartesian cogito, but in our finding ourselves in relation to other beings in whom we both actively recognize and do not recognize our own subjectivity, in an inexhaustible dialectic.

I do the best I can with any instrument I get attracted to. But they're just tools in order for you to express yourself and that's really the upshot of it.

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love.

The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.