Self Quotes - Page 409

I can't help you if you won't help yourself.

Learn more about yourself! Make a self-esteem collage using pictures of other people you wish you were.

Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.

Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding.

At the core of your Heart, you are perfect and pure. No one and nothing can alter that.

Discover your deep inner-self and from that place spread love in every direction.

Silence is the language of Om. We need silence to be able to reach our Self. Both internal and external silence is very important to feel the presence of that supreme Love.

I'd love to teach a self-defense class for ladies, specifically about running away from psychos in masks chasing them with chainsaws.

Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot.

Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to.

God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.

Self-interest is hostile to the common good, but enlightened self-interest is not. And this is the best key to the meaning of enlightenment.

When you find yourself on stage singing and you are embarrassed about what you are singing in front of your peers, then you have to think about your priorities.

For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible.

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.

It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is of the utmost importance for practical life. This faculty is judgment, otherwise called good sense, practical sense, initiative, the faculty of adapting one's self to circumstances. A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment.

A lover is never a completely self-reliant person viewing the world through his own eyes, but a hostage to a certain delusion.

Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.

I'm the pink sheep in the family.

Ah, there is nothing more beautiful than the difference between the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a holy being, and the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a self-righteous being. The one is all contempt; the other, all pity.

There is no doubt that the reason for my awful oversight was over-confidence that sapped my sense of danger. So that is where to look for the cause of bad blunders - in the exulting feeling of self-congratulation.

Reinvent yourself. Repeat.

Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning than the Bolshevik, the self-styled Soviet regime.

The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt and hostility aroused by his physical defects. Which in turn increased his sense of being alien and alone. A chronic fear of being slighted made him avoid his equals, made him stand, where his inferiors were concerned, self-consciously on his dignity.