Top Self Quotes Collection - Page 5

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Image of Gail Carriger
Someone was trying to kill Lady Alexia Maccon. It was most inconvenient, as she was in a dreadful hurry. Given her previous familiarity with near-death experiences and their comparative frequency with regards to her good self, Alexia should probably have allowed extra time for such a predictable happenstance.
- Gail Carriger
Collection: Self
Image of Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
Justice and injustice indeed begins and ends with the self.
- Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
Collection: Self
Image of William Batchelder Greene
What is it to be rich? It is to have an assured income in excess of expenditures, and to have no occasion for anxiety for the morrow. It is to be above the necessity of living from hand to mouth. It is to be able (or to have grounds to insanely suppose one's self to be able) to live outside of God's providence.
- William Batchelder Greene
Collection: Self
Image of Ilchi Lee
Everything in existence undergoes constant change. The things that surround us, even our selves are temporary manifestations of Ki energy.
- Ilchi Lee
Collection: Self
Image of Tom G. Palmer
It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.
- Tom G. Palmer
Collection: Self
Image of Maggie Stiefvater
Sam: “You—you greatly overestimate my self-control.” Grace: “I’m not looking for self-control.
- Maggie Stiefvater
Collection: Self
Image of Peter Watts
But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best.
- Peter Watts
Collection: Self
Image of Charles Yu
Life is, to some extent, an extended dialogue with your future self about how exactly you are going to let yourself down over the coming years.
- Charles Yu
Collection: Self
Image of Merrill Markoe
When anyone lacks self-awareness and doesn't recognize their transparencies, it's always funny.
- Merrill Markoe
Collection: Self
Image of Matt de la Pena
The feeling it gave me was an odd combination of weightless self-pity and excitement. I understood my life was meaningless, and this knowledge freed me up to accomplish absolutely anything.
- Matt de la Pena
Collection: Self
Image of Nate Silver
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Nate Silver
Collection: Self
Image of Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Collection: Self
Image of Peter Singer
Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating.
- Peter Singer
Collection: Self
Image of Antoine Rivarol
The world is governed by love,--self-love.
- Antoine Rivarol
Collection: Self
Image of Nancy Horan
It's not good to live so much inside oneself. It's a self-imposed exile, really. It makes you different.
- Nancy Horan
Collection: Self
Image of Arthur Tappan Pierson
If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together.
- Arthur Tappan Pierson
Collection: Self
Image of John Fante
Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit.
- John Fante
Collection: Self
Image of Georgia O'Keeffe
Someone else's vision will never be as good as your own vision of your self. Live and die with it 'cause in the end it's all you have. Lose it and you lose yourself and everything else. I should have listened to myself.
- Georgia O'Keeffe
Collection: Self
Image of Mo Willems
If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.
- Mo Willems
Collection: Self
Image of Frans de Waal
Morality, after all, has nothing to do with selflessness. On the contrary, self-interest is precisely the basis of the categorical imperative.
- Frans de Waal
Collection: Self
Image of Anne Roiphe
We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our 5-year-old selves became our 10-year-old selves, and so on and on; and if we unpack our selves, the full album appears. Every moment is a part of the following moment, and we are all a continuum.
- Anne Roiphe
Collection: Self
Image of Gloria E. Anzaldúa
I am playing with my Self, I am playing with the world's soul, I am the dialogue between my Self and el espiritu del mundo. I change myself, I change the world.
- Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Collection: Self
Image of Shunryu Suzuki
When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.
- Shunryu Suzuki
Collection: Self
Image of Gary Becker
Along with others, I have tried to pry economists away from narrow assumptions about self interest. Behavior is driven by a much richer set of values and preferences.
- Gary Becker
Collection: Self
Image of Shashi Tharoor
Resolutions aren't self-executing. Somebody has to provide the soldiers, take the risks, risk their blood and their treasure to go out and implement such a resolution.
- Shashi Tharoor
Collection: Self
Image of Nicholas Negroponte
By the year 2020 the largest employer in the developed world will be the self.
- Nicholas Negroponte
Collection: Self
Image of Jessica Alba
I get self-conscious, but you have to just embrace it and go with it.
- Jessica Alba
Collection: Self
Image of Marguerite Yourcenar
Everything turns out to be valuable that one does for one’s self without thought of profit.
- Marguerite Yourcenar
Collection: Self
Image of Joseph Brodsky
Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot of those-in the official capacity as well as the self-appointed. Suffer them if you can't escape them, but once you have steered clear of them, give them the shortest shrift possible. Above all, try to avoid telling stories about the unjust treatment you received at their hands; avoid it no matter how receptive your audience may be. Tales of this sort extend the existence of your antagonists.
- Joseph Brodsky
Collection: Self
Image of Melody Beattie
Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.
- Melody Beattie
Collection: Self
Image of Mark Epstein
In building a path through the self to the far shore of awareness, we have to carefully pick our way through our own wilderness. If we can put our minds into a place of surrender, we will have an easier time feeling the contours of the land. We do not have to break our way through as much as we have to find our way around the major obstacles. We do not have to cure every neurosis, we just have to learn how not to be caught by them.
- Mark Epstein
Collection: Self
Image of Mark Epstein
Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility or relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety turns one back on oneself, but only onto the self that is already known.
- Mark Epstein
Collection: Self
Image of J. R. R. Tolkien
Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
- J. R. R. Tolkien
Collection: Self
Image of Erwin Schrodinger
Our perceiving self is nowhere to be found in the world-picture, because it itself is the world-picture.
- Erwin Schrodinger
Collection: Self
Image of John Ortberg
Everybody wears an unseen sign that reads: Inspire me. Remind me that my life matters; call me to be my best self; appeal to whatever in me is most noble and honorable. Don't let me go down the path of least resistance. Challenge me to make my life about something more than the acquisition of money or success
- John Ortberg
Collection: Self
Image of Donna J. Haraway
Late twentieth-century machines have made thoroughly ambiguous the difference between natural and artificial, mind and body, self-developing and externally designed, and many other distinctions that used to apply to organisms and machines. Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert.
- Donna J. Haraway
Collection: Self
Image of Donna J. Haraway
The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code.
- Donna J. Haraway
Collection: Self
Image of Roberto Unger
The embodied self is the same person who woke to the world in a burst of visonary immediacy, who soon found that he was not the center of that world but on the contrary, a dependent and even hapless creature, and who then discovered that he was doomed to die
- Roberto Unger
Collection: Self
Image of Errol Morris
I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.
- Errol Morris
Collection: Self
Image of J. Oswald Sanders
Before we can conquer the world, we must first conquer the self.
- J. Oswald Sanders
Collection: Self
Image of James Cash Penney
They serve best who give most of themselves. Self is forgotten by the one who serves, for such a one rejoices to see success coming to others through his or her efforts.
- James Cash Penney
Collection: Self
Image of Li-Young Lee
The lyric self is the self; the narrative self is not.
- Li-Young Lee
Collection: Self
Image of Michael Novak
Our capacity for self-deception has no known limits
- Michael Novak
Collection: Self
Image of Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Many people have criticized Islam for being just automatic, having no individuality, just surrendering your will to God, but we Muslims know very well that every moment of the day we have to practice the fact that to surrender one's self to God is an act of free will.
- Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Collection: Self
Image of Hilaire Belloc
The world is full of double beds And most delightful maidenheads, Which being so, there's no excuse For sodomy or self-abuse.
- Hilaire Belloc
Collection: Self
Image of Martha Washington
I very linearly [sic] wish you would exert yourself so as to keep all your matters in order your self without depending on others as that is the only way to be happy to have all your business in your own hands.
- Martha Washington
Collection: Self
Image of Robin Hobb
That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.
- Robin Hobb
Collection: Self
Image of Gregory Peck
Overacting is a self-indulgence, while underacting comes either through a lack of talent or a lack of courage.
- Gregory Peck
Collection: Self
Image of Okakura Kakuzo
It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.
- Okakura Kakuzo
Collection: Self