Self Quotes - Page 423

I step naked into the shower of truth - whole-hearted, bloody-minded, utterly selfish, no longer even pretending to enjoy or understand anything.

Always be yourself, there's no one better!

Be yourself,its the best thing you can be.

I am convinced of the necessity to take an effective measure of self defense.

To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word.

Poetry cannot afford to lose its fundamentally self-delighting inventiveness, its joy in being a process of language as well as a representation of things in the world.

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.

I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself.

Getting started, keeping going, getting started again - in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm not only of achievement but of survival, the ground of convinced action, the basis of self-esteem and the guarantee of credibility in your lives, credibility to yourselves as well as to others.

Let us not forget that group of self-taught, outsider artists who never stepped foot in any classroom and cared less about even exhibiting, and yet ended up with an audience of avid admirers.

Oneness of the Divine. It may be given a thousand names such as The Primary Cause / God / Energy / I. All that is created has its Self this Oneness.

After you develop your Self-confidence and love for God then you can share your experiences with others. But it is a good rule to talk very little, even about God.

Without Self-confidence there cannot be God. So, first there must be Self-confidence and love of God.

Everyone self-Googles. And, I have, of course, the Google alert.

To be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf?

This is how women self-sabotage and self-destruct. Unless we have constant witnesses to our hard work, we are convinced we pull off every day of our lives through smoke and mirrors. (27)

After self-nurturance, listening to the whispers of our hearts is probably the hardest task we've ever attempted.

Any self-prompt that reminds you to focus on flow not ebb, contributes to your greater sense of abundance. (53)

You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.

A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats.

I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary power; as foolhardiness is not seldom the disguise of conscious timidity.

The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.

We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world.

The [Oregon] Journal in its head and heart will stand for the people, be truly Democratic and free from political entanglements and machinations, believing in the principles that promise the greatest good to the greatest number-to ALL MEN, regardless of race, creed or previous condition of servitude... It will be a fair newspaper, not a dull and selfish sheet.

Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.