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Self-awareness of one's faults, far from being the first step to growth, is very often the second foot in the mud.
— Bauvard
All Things are in constant relationship, and shamanic journey is the choice to put one's self in direct contact and concert with that relationship.
— S. Kelley Harrell
There are worse things than suffering and death ... it is worse to lose one's self-respect.
— Sandor Marai
I like anything that is thought provoking and elevates one's consciousness to the highest and out of it's safety net, making one breathe aspiration.
— Petra Remes
I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world.
— Tanit Phoenix
The spark in his eye, which is one's very self, caught the spark in hers that was herself, and for a moment they looked into each other's natures.
— Willa Cather
The greatest victory comes not from winning against enemies but from winning over one's self.
— Debasish Mridha
Feminism freed my mind. Yoga freed my body. It's one thing to intellectualize self-love and another to embody it.
— Melanie Klein
If there is one lesson I've learned from failure and success, it's this. I am not the outcome. I am never the result. I am only the effort.
— Kamal Ravikant
I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self.
— W.B.Yeats
To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
— Elaine Dundy
How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others.
— June Ahern
One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.
— V.S. Naipaul
It is no use lying to one's self.
— Henrik Ibsen
Each new self standing on the last one's shoulders until we're these wobbly people poles?
— Jandy Nelson
It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
— Queen Christina
Property was thus appall'd / That the self was not the same / Single nature's double name / Neither two nor one was call'd.
— Michael Oakeshott
Some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not.
— W. Somerset Maugham
The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.
— Djuna Barnes
Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions!
— Ashim Shanker
Loving and being loved affirmed one's sense of self and conquered feelings of loneliness and alienation. It kept one sane.
— Daniel Klein
To be in love is to surpass one's self.
— Oscar Wilde
Everything turns out to be valuable that one does for one's self without thought of profit.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
It is hardly possible to suspect another without having in one's self the seeds of baseness the party is accused of.
— Stanislaw Leszczynski
To dare is to momentarily lose one's footing.
But not to dare is to lose one's self. — Soren Kierkegaard
But not to dare is to lose one's self. — Soren Kierkegaard
There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.
— Michel De Montaigne
Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.
— Sasha Azevedo
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.
— Robert A. Heinlein
At night when you're asleep, self-hatred's going to creep in. And you can blame it on the devil, the one who's bed you sleep in.
— Ani DiFranco
The great lesson to learn of life is the need of giving out from the abundance of one's self in order to be ever abundant within one's self.
— Walter Russell
The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth.
— Lewis Thomas
Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs.
— Kristin Hannah
Peace has been variously defined, but perhaps we might think of it as 'harmony within one's self, and with God and man.'
— Marion G. Romney
The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Stop in somebody's shadow to rest and cool down, and you are lost. No one can make anyone else happy.
— Peter Deunov
Life is magical. There is something wonderful in being alive, in having within one's self all sorts of possibilities.
— Arthur Lynch
If it's about me, I can be assured that there will be a bunch of empty chairs in the auditorium of my life; save the one I'm sitting in.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love
— Soren Kierkegaard
Help, I have done it again I have been here many times before Hurt myself again today And the worst part is There's no-one else to blame.
— Sia Furler
Doom comes about because of neglecting to evaluate one's self and because of just following one's whims.
— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
What's interesting is to see us as we really are; only in this way we could arrive to the truly knowledge of one-self.
— Samael Aun Weor
Whatever doubts or vexations one has in Japan, it is only necessary to ask one's self: Well, who are the best people to live with?
— Lafcadio Hearn
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward
— Patricia Sampson
That's what existence means: draining one's own self dry without the sense of thirst.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.
— Joel Chandler Harris
One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
There is a known correlation between denial of one's sexuality and a propensity to self-destructive behaviour.
— Peter Tatchell
A Gnani [the enlightened one] does not have to turn beads of a rosary; He turns the beads of own's own Self (the Soul).
— Dada Bhagwan
The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
— Samuel Smiles
The apology from the arsonist takes up space that could otherwise be used to remove one's self from the fire. HStanbrough
— Harvey Stanbrough
Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one's own self-obsession.
— Ben Harper
Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
An apology given just to appease one's conscience is self-serving and better left unspoken!
— Evinda Lepins
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
— Aldous Huxley
Until ignorance, of one's own Self (the Soul), is removed, illusory attachment (moha) will not go away.
— Dada Bhagwan
Nobody listened to an old voice anymore. Old voices became a part of one's self, like a fingernail.
— Charles Bukowski
...[M]en are put in a sort of guard-post, from which one must not release one's self or run away...
— Socrates
One's self-image not only encompasses the person you are but also the person you wanted to be, could be or once had been.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
It's rather a strong check to one's self-complacency to find how much of one's right doing depends on not being in want of money.
— George Eliot
To constantly see one's own self as 'Pure', and to see other's self as 'pure', is focused applied awareness of the Self, the Soul (shuddha upayog).
— Dada Bhagwan
In all unbelief there are these two things: a good opinion of one's self, and a bad opinion of God.
— Horatius Bonar
To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.
— Benno C. Schmidt Jr.
There's a difference, you know, between faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow. The other one will make you sleep.
— Rich Mullins
A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.
— Jose Marti
It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
— Josh Billings
To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
— Ellen Glasgow
Self-realization is a very quiet thing. It's not flashy. No one might see you light up a room. No one might observe anything
— Frederick Lenz
One's self-image is very important because if that's in good shape, then you can do anything, or practically anything.
— John Gielgud
TOBIAS: No one ever said this would be easy, and you don't seem like the type of woman to take the easy way out.
— T.S. Joyce
There are two persons in the world we never see as they are,
one's self and one's other self. — Arsene Houssaye
one's self and one's other self. — Arsene Houssaye
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
One must know one's own secret.
— Swami Nithyananda
What is suspicion? It is a tool to ruin one's own Soul.
— Dada Bhagwan
I wondered how far I should turn out faithful to that ideal conception of one's own personality every man sets up for himself secretly.
— Joseph Conrad
The better part of friendship might be holding one's tongue over the prospect of self-made wreckage.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fascinate, elude and confuse me.
— Samantha Harvey
Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
To resist and subdue Nature is to make for one's self a personal and imperishable life: it is to break free from the vicissitudes of Life and Death.
— Aleister Crowley
It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors.
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't.
— Mark Twain
To bring one's self to believe in a truth that has just dawned upon one is the first step towards progress; to persuade others is the second.
— Louis Pasteur
If Froi understood anything, it was that in this world one's worth came from others.
— Melina Marchetta
But the true discipline is to remain committed, throughout the whole of one's life, to waking up from the dream of the self.
— Sam Harris
On the path of the budo one does not strive for victory over an opponent. One strive to avoid defeat by one's own self.
— Akira Toriyama
Yet there's no one to beat you | No one t' defeat you | 'Cept the thoughts of yourself feeling bad
— Bob Dylan
No one human being knows the full truth about another human being. Not even one's nearest and dearest.
— Agatha Christie
It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
— Charles Dickens