Self Quotes - Page 24

• The corne hides it self in the snow, as an old man in furrs.

  George Herbert

  Men, Snow, Old Man

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.326

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

  Bruce Lee

  Dream, Realization, Awakening

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.177, Tuttle Publishing

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• Self-indulgence is something to watch, but anything that helps you understand situations that are difficult to understand is good. If you're having some sort of emotional trauma, you need to find a person to talk to about it who says, 'This is quite normal; it's fine.'

  Lulu

  Emotional, Normal, Watches

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• It is a characteristic of any decaying civilization that the great masses of the people are unconscious of the tragedy. Humanity in a crisis is generally insensitive to the gravity of the times in which it lives. Men do not want to believe their own times are wicked, partly because it involves too much self-accusation and principally because they have no standards outside of themselves by which to measure their times.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Believe, Men, Civilization

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• I started doing yoga in college, so that has just become a staple of a self-care routine for my mind and my body. My body craves it at this point, so I do it two to three times a week, sometimes more. I practice Vinyasa style yoga and sometimes mix it up.

  Taylor Schilling

  Yoga, College, Two

  "Up Close with Orange is the New Black Star Taylor Schilling". Interview with Kristen Aldridge, www.shape.com. August 5, 2013.

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• It's so hard for women to be happy for one another, like genuinely happy. Once you find that, you know you've found true SELF happiness.

  Zendaya

  Found, Knows, Hard

  Zendaya‏ @Zendaya, twitter.com. February 21, 2015.

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• Money by Martin Amis. I read it when I was 15, I read it hundreds of times since then and it always makes me laugh. Amis has managed to create a world that is both funny and abrasive. I'd love to play John Self, the depraved hero, who's without illusions, he created.

  Robert Pattinson

  Hero, Play, Laughing

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• A direct statement about yourself is considered objective only if it is negative. If it's positive, it is considered subjective. And 'objective' means it is accurate, and 'subjective' means it is conceited self-delusion.

  Barbara Sher

  Mean, Conceited, Negative

  Barbara Sher (1979). “Wishcraft: How to Get what You Really Want”

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• In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of self and the natural world, and her skillful use of that language. Whether she turns her attention to the act of eating an apricot 'the color of shame and dawn,' or to 'the omnipotence of light,' or to grief when 'All the greens of summer have blown apart,' her linking of unique images, her energetic wit and whimsy, her compassionate investment in life, always bring new pleasures and perceptions to the reader.

  Pattiann Rogers

  Summer, Grief, Unique

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• Self-respect,--the corner-stone of all virtue.

  John Herschel

  Stones, Virtue, Corners

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• The journey toward self-discovery is life's greatest adventure.

  Arianna Huffington

  Adventure, Journey, Discovery

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• The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it.

  Dorothy Nevill

  Neglect, Teach, Poorest

  Lady Dorothy Nevill (1912). “My own times”

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• Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Inner Peace, Understanding, Way

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• Watch yourself. Every minute we change. It is a great opportunity. At any point, we can step out of our frozen selves and our ideas and begin fresh.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Change, Opportunity, Ideas

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.40, Shambhala Publications

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• Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Deception, Infinite, Self Deception

  "Works of Love". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, 1847.

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• Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity?

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Objectivity, Ideas, Brain

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• Shame can be self-indulgence too.

  Eleanor Clark

  Shame, Self Indulgence, Indulgence

  Eleanor Clark (1978). “Eyes, etc: a memoir”, HarperCollins

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• But poetry is not to be lived, except for the few to whom it is more important than self-preservation.

  Rosamond Lehmann

  Poetry, Important, Preservation

  Rosamond Lehmann (1975). “The ballad and the source”, Harvest Books

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• Morale is not a single instinct. It has many ingredients. A sense of personal responsibility, the natural courage of an individual, the amount of his acquired self-discipline -- and above all his interest in others -- these together make up the spirit of morale.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Responsibility, Discipline, Together

  Phyllis Bottome (1943). “Survival”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.

  Demosthenes

  Real, Believe, Expectations

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• Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Blessed, Animal, Curiosity

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Living in Hope and History”, p.196, A&C Black

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• O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold impotence of one, who has honestly set to the work of his own self-redemption.

  Horace Bushnell

  Redemption, Dry, Cold

  Horace Bushnell (1858). “Nature and the Supernatural: As Together Constituting the One System of God”, p.237

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• Intercourse is after all man's best teacher. "Know thyself" is an excellent maxim; but even self-knowledge cannot be perfected in closets and cloisters--nor amid lake scenery, and on the sunny side of the mountains. Men who seldom mix with their fellow-creatures are almost sure to be one-sided--the victims of fixed ideas, that sometimes lead to insanity.

  William Matthews

  Teacher, Men, Lakes

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