Quotes of: Inner-self Keyword

Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--your old self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart

The House of Mirth

He showed videotape of himself committing acts of self-violence and informing news crews that he had been assaulted by a marauding mob of irate art historians.

The Human Script

For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but of power and of love and of calm and well balanced mind and discipline and self-control.

Holy Bible: King James Version

The mind is strong. It survives, even without thought. Even with everything taken away, it holds a seed—your self.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.

His Excellency: George Washington

Shame is internalized when one is abandoned. Abandonment is the precise term to describe how one loses one’s authentic self and ceases to exist psychologically.

Healing the Shame that Binds You

Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one’s painful self through the world. But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain.

Immortality

The Self-revealing of the Word is in every dimension - above, in creation; below, in the Incarnation; in the depth, in Hades; in the breadth, throughout the world. All things have been filled with the knowledge of God.

On the Incarnation

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.

Jane Eyre

Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.

J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

Everyone on the Internet is talking about television and everyone on television is talking about the Internet. The whole damn thing is a self-licking ice cream cone and you're blaming me?

Kill Decision

Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to read the true motives of a critic keeps one's conscience both clear and at ease.

Killosophy

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..

Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem

Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair.

A Secret Affair

Not that I don't appreciate the rescue," Holt said. "But I'm forced to ask, in the interest of self-preservation ... exactly how well armed are you right now?

Shadow Bound

Poetry is another name for a person’s telling of the self, existence and what is beyond, and one’s own perceptions.

Speech and Power of Expression: On Language, Esthetics, and Belief

If you manage yourself, you control the flow of your time to the right direction. It takes self-discipline to be at the center of control for your own time.

Shaping the dream

A person without self-expression is a person without personal freedom.

The Saint, the Surfer, and the CEO: A Remarkable Story about Living Your Heart's Desires

Loyalty," he stated, ineffably gentle. "A quality honoured by sages and fools, by which humankind finds the courage to trample the reflex for self-preservation.

Stormed Fortress

If Emrys was acting normally, like the typical self-gratifying narcissist he was, then it would have been easier to keep him in that special category of potential enemy.

Silver Hollow

Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.

Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living