Self Quotes

I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me.

Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.

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

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.

You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

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

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and the two nuclei will then fuse as well, and the new hybrid cell will now divide into monstrous progeny. Naked cells, lacking self-respect, do not seem to have any sense of self.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.

My friends tell me that I've calmed down, that I seem more centered. I don't know, I think my inner self was more hollow before, which made me more scattered, and more needy to get laughs.

I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.

It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing? Am I any good? Will I ever work again?' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.