Quotes of: Self Keyword

Humans have invented all kinds of symbols to communicate not only with other humans but more importantly with ourselves.

The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.

God Emperor of Dune

To deal with history [life] means to abandon one's self to chaos but to retain a belief in the ordination and the meaning. It is a very serious task.

The Glass Bead Game

Being with him made me want to make my own dreams, discover my own path. I was my best self when I was with him.

Glitch

I felt the need to clarify we were there for the self defense class, in case he also taught about dog breeding or riding the high seas.

The Golden Lily

Be grateful for the life of those who mass up challenges on the paths to your fulfillment. At least they taught you self-defense!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

The most self-damaging words in the English language are: try, might, and if. These are words of uncertainty. Will you fail? That is possible. But continue doubting your abilities and you’ll never succeed.

Gravity

All order, I've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal — a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world — two snake pits.

Grendel

The nature of life is mess, chaotic, exquisitely beautiful, excruciatingly painful, immensely joy-filled, and unpredictable.

Garden of Bliss: Cultivating the Inner Landscape for Self-Discovery

I don't believe the inner work ever really ends, and sometimes I'd like to take a vacation.

Garden of Bliss: Cultivating the Inner Landscape for Self-Discovery

In an age of constant live connections, the central question of self-examination is drifting from ‘Who are you?’ towards ‘What are you doing?

How to Thrive in the Digital Age

Self-governing cultures both inspire alignment and eject elements that don't fit in.

How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything... in Business

Don’t believe everything you repeat in your mind!

How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy

To pray is to learn to believe in in a transformation of self and world, which seems, empirically, impossible.

Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark's Story of Jesus

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.

Blindsight

His self-righteousness has prevented him from enjoying the grace all around him.

The Big Story: How the Bible Makes Sense out of Life

One's longing is not so much there for sense-gratification, profit and self-preservation, instead one's karma is there for no other purpose than inquiring after the Absolute Truth.

Bhagavata Purana

The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

Blessed Are the Pure of Heart: Catechesis on the Sermon on the Mount and Writings of St. Paul

Contemporary writers annoyed him, he found their worlds insular, their style too self-conscious and ironic. Theirs was not a literature that belonged to him.

Barracuda

Dependence on the Lord is wisdom and self-reliance is foolishness. But dependence on the Lord does not mean laziness, it means prayerful action and patient perseverance...

Because I Love You

Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex.

As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980