Self - Quotes
There`s something about christmas that always throws us back upon ourself, on our memories and wishes, our childhood self, which is always standing wide-eyed with amazement outside the great door behind which the wonder is waiting.
Why does God need arguments, anyway? Why does God need people to make his arguments for him? Why can`t he just reveal his true self, clearly and unequivocally, and settle the question once and for all? If God existed, why wouldn`t it just be obvious?
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
How we behave is a balancing act between our future and present selves. In the future, we want to be fit, but in the present, we want the candy bar. In the future, we want to be a well-rounded, wellinformed intellectual virtuoso, but right now we want to watch Jersey Shore. Behavioral economists call this present bias - the gap between your preferences for your future self and your preferences in the current moment.
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
I have found repeatedly, of late years, that I cannot fish without falling a little in self respect.
It takes courage [...] to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
Love is allowing your loved ones to grow in their own pace.
Love is giving freedom to your loved ones to live their own lives.
Love is an acceptance of another person's potential to become their true self.
The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
We don`t realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.
Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self.
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man`s self.