Self Quotes - Page 419

Discipline is the virtue that begins in obedience and flowers in self-control.

Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.

People loose tension when they run. The feeling of self respect will almost always increase. You accept yourself a little more.

But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.

Only in the crucible of self-mastery can freedom be smelted

The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.

When we see the secret beauty of anyone, including ourselves, we see past our judgment and fear into the core of who we truly are - not an entrapped self but the radiance of goodness.

It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.

We call ourselves a "capacity building" organization; self-motivated and self-initiated capacity building. For example, in 30 years, I don't think I have signed a check for the company.

To men of a certain type The suspicion that they are incapable of loving Is as disturbing to their self-esteem As, in cruder men, the fear of impotence.

It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.

There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference, ... .

God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust?

I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit. I have none of the selfless love of my mother. I have none of the plodding, practical love. . . . . I am, to be blunt and concise, in love only with myself, my puny being with its small inadequate breasts and meager, thin talents. I am capable of affection for those who reflect my own world.

Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence.

This is the great lesson that we are here to learn through myriads of births and heavens and hells - that there is nothing to be asked for, desired for, beyond one's spiritual Self (atman).

To be unselfish, perfectly selfless, is salvation itself; for the man within dies, and God alone remains.

Unselfishness is God. One may live on a throne, in a golden palace, and be perfectly unselfish; and then he is in God. Another may live in a hut and wear rags, and have nothing in the world; yet, if he is selfish, he is intensely merged in the world.

A book is solitude, privacy; it is a way of holding the self apart from the crush of the outer world.

Be yourself. An original is always worth more than a copy.

What women need to understand is that you cannot save a child if you can't save yourself.

Indecision is a form of self-abuse - be ready to step up!

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what youre going to do with it.

The very basis of true peace of mind is a benevolent wish to see all the world as happy as one's self.