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Image of Arthur Miller
Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence.
- Arthur Miller
Collection: Self
Image of Susan Glaspell
For nothing is so hard to hear as that which is half known, and evaded. One never denies so hotly as in denying to one's self what one fears is true, and one never resents so bitterly as in resenting that which one cannot say one has the right to resent.
- Susan Glaspell
Collection: Self
Image of William Nicholson
Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.
- William Nicholson
Collection: Self
Image of Joko Beck
Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because joy accepts whatever is as it is.
- Joko Beck
Collection: Self
Image of Alfred Adler
Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.
- Alfred Adler
Collection: Self
Image of Alfred Adler
We are not determined by our experiences, but are self-determined by the meaning we give to them; and when we take particular experiences as the basis for our future life, we are almost certain to be misguided to some degree. Meanings are not determined by situations. We determine ourselves by the meanings we ascribe to situations.
- Alfred Adler
Collection: Self
Image of Sharon Salzberg
Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.
- Sharon Salzberg
Collection: Self
Image of James Redfield
The true, or higher part of the self is always seeking the state that mystics talk about, the state in which we are filled with a universal love and a peaceful euphoria.
- James Redfield
Collection: Self
Image of Nathaniel Branden
If you are an adult, you are responsible for your life and well-being. No one owes you the fulfillment of your needs or wants; no one is here on earth to serve you. If you respect the principle of self-ownership, you understand that no one else owns you and that you do not own anyone else. Only on this understanding can there be peace on earth and good will among human beings.
- Nathaniel Branden
Collection: Self
Image of Nathaniel Branden
The greatest barrier to achievement and success is not lack of talent or ability but rather the feeling that achievement and success, above a certain level, are outside our self-concept-our image of who we are and what is appropriate to us.
- Nathaniel Branden
Collection: Self
Image of Derrick Bell
However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation - to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our coworkers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we cannot fully conceive of, let alone define. In many ways, we are our relationships.
- Derrick Bell
Collection: Self
Image of John Bradshaw
Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are.
- John Bradshaw
Collection: Self
Image of John Bradshaw
Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.
- John Bradshaw
Collection: Self
Image of Stephen Batchelor
Expectations of goals and rewards (such as Enlightenment) are recognized for what they are: last-ditch attempts by the ghostly self to subvert the process to its own ends. The more we become conscious of the mysterious unfolding of life, the clearer it becomes that its purpose is not to fulfill the expectations of our ego.
- Stephen Batchelor
Collection: Self
Image of George D. Prentice
One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession.
- George D. Prentice
Collection: Self
Image of George Muller
There was a day when I died; died to self, my opinions, preferences, tastes and will; died to the world, its approval or censure; died to the approval or blame even of my brethren or friends; and since then I have studied only to show myself approved unto God.
- George Muller
Collection: Self
Image of Feisal Abdul Rauf
Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
- Feisal Abdul Rauf
Collection: Self
Image of Conrad Aiken
One is least sure of one's self, sometimes, when one is most positive.
- Conrad Aiken
Collection: Self
Image of Frederic Bastiat
Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should guarantee to every citizen the free and inoffensive use of his faculties for physical, intellectual and moral self-improvement. Instead, it is demanded that the law should directly extend welfare, education, and morality throughout the nation. This is the seductive lure of socialism. And I repeat: these two uses of the law are in direct contradiction to each other.
- Frederic Bastiat
Collection: Self
Image of Lewis Buzbee
Rereading a favorite novel first read 5, 10, or 20 years ago, is a measure of our travel, how far we've come; it's a way of visiting an earlier self.
- Lewis Buzbee
Collection: Self
Image of Tony DiTerlizzi
So, Eva Nine, you must sometimes disregard what someone is saying and focus instead on what they are doing. Watch and observe. That is when one reveals his true self.
- Tony DiTerlizzi
Collection: Self
Image of Camille Paglia
Lacan , Derrida and Foucault are the perfect prophets for the weak, anxious academic personality, trapped in verbal formulas and perennially defeated by circumstances. They offer a self-exculpating cosmic explanation for the normal professorial state of resentment, alienation, dithering passivity and inaction.
- Camille Paglia
Collection: Self
Image of Rainer Maria Rilke
I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Collection: Self
Image of Minor White
All photographs are self-portraits.
- Minor White
Collection: Self
Image of Paul Twitchell
Self-recognition, the self-contemplation of spirit is the primary movement out of which all creativeness proceeds.
- Paul Twitchell
Collection: Self
Image of Sean Penn
Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's life and craft.
- Sean Penn
Collection: Self
Image of David Sheff
How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?
- David Sheff
Collection: Self
Image of K.P. Yohannan
We must pay a price to touch godliness through daily decision to die to self and embrace the cross.
- K.P. Yohannan
Collection: Self
Image of Sissela Bok
To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to others are nevertheless within one's reach.
- Sissela Bok
Collection: Self
Image of Helen Clark MacInnes
Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering.
- Helen Clark MacInnes
Collection: Self
Image of Doc Holliday
Dave Rudabaugh is an ignorant scoundrel! I disapprove of his very existence. I considered ending it myself on several occasions but self-control got the better of me.
- Doc Holliday
Collection: Self
Image of Dorothy Rowe
However, when we are depressed, being reminded of other people's suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred.
- Dorothy Rowe
Collection: Self
Image of Chuck Palahniuk
Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Collection: Self
Image of Nikola Tesla
I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.
- Nikola Tesla
Collection: Self
Image of Darin Strauss
When you know you are dying, self-deceptions fly from your bedside like embers off a bonfire.
- Darin Strauss
Collection: Self
Image of Audie Murphy
I was scared before every battle. That old instinct of self-preservation is a pretty basic thing, but while the action was going on some part of my mind shut off and my training and discipline took over. I did what I had to do.
- Audie Murphy
Collection: Self
Image of Edith Stein
An 'I' without a body is a possibility. But a body without an 'I' is utterly impossible.
- Edith Stein
Collection: Self
Image of Susan L. Taylor
We are forever looking outside ourselves, seeking approval and striving to impress others. But living to please others is a poor substitute for self-love, for no matter how family and friends may adore us, they can never satisfy our visceral need to love and honor ourselves.
- Susan L. Taylor
Collection: Self
Image of James Mackintosh
A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.
- James Mackintosh
Collection: Self
Image of Rowan Williams
The whole story of creation, incarnation, and our incorporation into the fellowship of Christ's body tells us that God desires us, as if we were God, as if we were that unconditional response to God's giving that God's self makes in the life of the Trinity. We are created so that we may be caught up in this, so that we may grow into the wholehearted love of God by learning that God loves us as God loves God.
- Rowan Williams
Collection: Self
Image of Leon Uris
In order to be a good writer, you've got to be a bad boss. Self-discipline and stamina are the two major arms in a writer's arsenal.
- Leon Uris
Collection: Self
Image of Mark Steyn
Welfare culture is bad not just because, as in Europe, it's bankrupting the state, but because it enfeebles the citizenry, it erodes self-reliance and resourcefulness.
- Mark Steyn
Collection: Self
Image of Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Self-complacen cy is fatal to progress.
- Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Collection: Self
Image of Cressida Cowell
Remember, there is nothing wrong with a healthy sense of self-respect.
- Cressida Cowell
Collection: Self
Image of Siddhartha Mukherjee
Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.
- Siddhartha Mukherjee
Collection: Self
Image of Austin Osman Spare
Give me the death of my soul. Intoxicate me with self-love.
- Austin Osman Spare
Collection: Self
Image of Judith Lewis Herman
After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.
- Judith Lewis Herman
Collection: Self
Image of Judith Lewis Herman
The guarantee of safety in a battering relationship can never be based upon a promise from the perpetrator, no matter how heartfelt. Rather, it must be based upon the self-protective capability of the victim. Until the victim has developed a detailed and realistic contingency plan and has demonstrated her ability to carry it out, she remains in danger of repeated abuse.
- Judith Lewis Herman
Collection: Self
Image of John Desmond Bernal
Life is a partial, continuous, progressive, multiform and conditionally interactive self-realization of the potentialities of atomic electron states.
- John Desmond Bernal
Collection: Self