4,826 Quotes About Self

What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.

We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.

Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate.

San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness.

The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western pioneer Democracy in power and self-consciousness.

I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never healthy.

The modern state appeals to morality, to religion, and to natural law as the ideological foundation of its existence. At the same time it is prepared to infringe any or all of these in the interest of self-preservation.

As you meditate and become more spiritually attuned, you can better discern and recognize the sound of your higher self or the voice of God speaking to you through words, images, and sensations.

I speak to the broken halves of all our selves and tell them to embrace, loving the worst in us equally with the best.