Quotes of: Inner-self Keyword

Nonetheless, the fact remains; he had hope in a better world he could not yet see that overwhelmed the cries of "you can't" or "you won't" or "why bother." More than anything else, mastering that faith, on cue, is what separated him from his peers, a...

A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

It is astonishing to realize that growing up actually means to become one with Existence. It means to find the whole Existence within myself, it means to discover that Existence is alive in my own heart and being. The song of a bird echoes my own inn...

Swami Dhyan Giten

Whenever we decide to create a greater degree of change in our lives we need to start doing things differently. Any external change only reflects the inner transformation. Hence whenever we decide to change our lives, it does not happen through manip...

Raphael Zernoff

In his book , written in 1951-2 and published in the West in 1953, the Polish poet and essayist Czeslaw Milosz paid Orwell one of the greatest compliments that one writer has ever bestowed upon another. Milosz had seen the Stalinisation of Eastern Eu...

Christopher Hitchens

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

The Fountainhead

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Napoleon Hill

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

Patty Duke

Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.

Queen Latifah

It seems to be a common denominator with a lot of comics, this low self-esteem thing.

Ray Romano

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.

Denis Waitley

Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.

Francis Spufford

A person who has self-love and self-respect has everything.

Debasish Mridha

I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt.

Charlie Cox

You have to get lost to find your true self.

Debasish Mridha

Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at.

Janice Dickinson

I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating.

Adam Levine

I'm on the path to being someone I'm equally terrified by and obsessed with. My true self.

Troye Sivan

I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.

Peter Ackroyd

If there is one ruler that can harmonize and unify the mob of characters [in our astral body], it is the Ego (the Higher Ego, or Self, or Spirit). The more the Ego shines like a sun at the center of gravity of the astral body, the more the different ...

Entity Possession: Freeing the Energy Body of Negative Influences

The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image, but the internalized locus of self-worth saves lives. Western men are very different. In externalizing the source...

The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide

Thus we come to the problem of determining what the poem is 'about.' Charles Altieri notes that '[a]n expression of the self can be one that is intended, the self's act, or one that is symptomatic, the act of a self not in control of what it manifest...

Against the American Dream: Essays on Charles Bukowski