4,826 Quotes About Self

Only in the crucible of self-mastery can freedom be smelted

The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.

Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil.

There are still people who believe in that and wake up every day believing it's possible, and invest their whole selves in that.

Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal of rearranging one's perceptions and transforming one's self.

Throughout most of our history, nothing - not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons - has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as the narcissistic ego, with its self-aggrandizing presumptions and its hell-hound spawn of fear and greed.

I'm a really big believer in self care. One of the ways I nourish my soul is I eat the way I live my life - joyfully.

Inquisitiveness is self-serving, Johanna. -Marcus Eaton

What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.