S Quotes
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“Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.”
Source: The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De
“Self-imposed limits on sovereign power can disarm mistrust, but provide no guarantee of liberty and property beyond those afforded by the balance between state and private force.”
“Self-improveme nt is no more God's plan than self-salvation.”
“Self-improvement comes mainly from trying to help others.”
Source: The Humble Approach: Scientists Discover God
“Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.”
Source: In My Own Way: An Autobiography
“Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.”
Source: PRINCIPLES CRE LVG
“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.'”
“Self-indulgence leads only to misery. Nothing great or even worthwhile is ever accomplished without struggle through adversity and self-sacrifice”
“Self-indulgence takes many forms. A man may be self-indulgent in speech, in touch, in sight. From self-indulgence a man comes to idle speech and worldly talk, to buffoonery and cracking indecent jokes. There is self-indulgence in touching without necessity, making mocking signs with the hands, pushing for a place, snatching up something for oneself, approaching someone else shamelessly. All these things come from not having the fear of God in the soul and from these a man comes little by little to perfect contempt.”
“Self-inflicted misery smirks under its crown of thorns.”
“Self-inquiry is a spiritually induced form of wintertime. It's not about looking for a right answer so much as stripping away and letting you see what is not necessary, what you can do without, what you are without your leaves.”
Source: Emptiness Dancing: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. 'I am' is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.”
“Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human misery of the poor themselves. Calculate our loss: The aid, the lost opportunity to trade, the short-term consequences of the multiple conflicts; the long-term consequences on the attitude to the wealthy world of injustice and abject deprivation amongst the poor.”
“Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints.”
“Self-interest is hostile to the common good, but enlightened self-interest is not. And this is the best key to the meaning of enlightenment.”
Source: Closing of the American Mind
“Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The scientist seeking to advance the frontiers of his discipline, the missionary seeking to convert infidels to the true faith, the philanthropist seeking to bring comfort to the needy - all are pursuing their interests, as they see them, as they judge them by their own values.”
Source: Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
“Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.”
“Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn prejudices operate in their greatest force.”
“Self-interest leads to honing your skills, the better to trade with.”
“Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.”
“Self-interest speaks all manner of tongues and plays all manner of parts, even that of disinterestedness.”
“self-interest usually brings injustice with it.”
“Self-interest, be it enlightened, works indirectly for the public good.”
“Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin
“Self-interest, to be sure, is one of the most important, but we have many other motives - honesty, self-respect, altruism, love, sympathy, faith, sense of duty, solidarity, loyalty, public-spiritedness, patriotism, and so on - that are sometimes even more important than self-seeking as the driver of our behaviors.”
“Self-judgment continues to arise - it's a strong habit - but the fact that I made a conscious commitment to recognize it has helped me stop feeding the story of being unworthy.”
“Self-judgment is how conditioned mind keeps control over your life.”
“Self-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together.”
Source: Life Together
“Self-justification is a treacherous servant.”
“Self-justification, therefore, is not only about protecting high self-esteem; it's also about protecting low self-esteem if that is how a person sees himself.”
“Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.”
Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)
“Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.”
“Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing, tending to make man shallow or insane.”
Source: the Bourgeois Poet
“Self-knowledge is an anchor that makes unpredictability tolerable.”
Source: Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old
“Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day," Raquel said firmly. "And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies.”
“Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.”
“Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'.”
“Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.”
Source: Force of circumstance
“Self-knowledge is not the knowledge of a dead self, self-knowledge is the knowledge of the process of the self. It is an alive phenomenon. The self is not a thing, it is an event, it is a process. Never think in terms of things, the self is not there inside you just like a thing waiting in your room. The self is a process: changing, moving, arriving at new altitudes, moving into new planes, going deeper into new depths. Each moment much work is going on and the only way to encounter this self is to encounter it in relationship.”
“Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.”
Source: On Nature and the Environment
“Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for his life as a human being.”
Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.”
“Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives”
“Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.”
Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
“Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person.”
“Self-knowledge makes me happy.”
“Self-knowledge, I guess, is hard. But I think pain is harder, personally. I think to be hopeless is very hard. I think to die without hope or to live without hope is very hard.”
“Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.”
Source: Notes of Thought
“Self-leadership is about awareness, tolerance , and not letting your own natural tendencies limit your potential.”
Source: Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality
“Self-loathing and self-worship can easily be the same thing. You hate the small sack of fluids and resentments that you are, and you would go to any length, and betray anything and anyone, to preserve it.”
Source: Dandelion Fire (100 Cupboards Book 2)