Self Quotes - Page 75

Through selfless work, love of God grows in heart.

True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that false self competently adjusted to our alienated social reality... and through this death a rebirth and the eventual re-establishment of a new kind of ego-functioning, the ego now being the servant of the divine, no longer its betrayer.

Someone once asked me how I hold my head up so high after all I have been through. I said it's because no matter what, I AM a SURVIVOR, NOT a victim.

Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.

The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception and multiplying female self-hatred.

Riches does not mean, having a great amount of property, but riches is self-contentment.

It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.

Life is an inside-out game. The truth is that all our situations and circumstances have their beginnings in our minds. Our idea of who we are creates who we become - the great news is you can change your self-impressions and change your life.

Being an entrepreneur is sexy... for those who haven't done it. In reality it's gritty, tough work where you will be filled with self doubt. Entrepreneurs are survivors.

I got into cooking out of self-defense.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.

Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their stretches and leaps and jumps to the tune of words.

I want to prove that you don't have to conform to be accepted. The greatest Value comes from loving yourself for who you are.

Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

Your love for what you do and willingness to push yourself where others aren't prepared to go is what will make you great.

A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her.

Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat.

Conscious business.. business that is conscious of inner and outer worlds.. would therefore be business that takes into account body, mind, and spirit in self, culture, and nature. Put differently, conscious business would be mindful of the way that the spectrum of consciousness operates in the Big Three worlds of self and culture and nature.

I wasn’t old enough to realize that I could be my terrible self and have people love me for that.

Awareness is our true self; it's what we are. So we don't have to try to develop awareness; we simply need to notice how we block awareness with our thoughts, our fantasies, our opinions, and our judgments. We're either in awareness, which is our natural state, or we're doing something else.

At bottom, the Court's opinion is thus a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized a need to prevent corporations from undermining self-government since the founding, and who have fought against the distinctive corrupting potential of corporate electioneering since the days of Theodore Roosevelt. It is a strange time to repudiate that common sense. While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics.

I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations.

Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.