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Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who...have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.

When I was younger, I did self-mutilate. I'd be upset, so I'd do it, & it would calm me down. It's a horrible way to feel better. But there are two parts of your brain - one that really wants to destroy the other. & sometimes the idea of self-destruction is very romantic. I got over that.

Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew.

When you contact the Higher Self, the source of power within, you tap into a reservoir of infinite power.

The Higher Self is whispering to you softly in the silence between your thoughts.

Our Higher Self is the most intimate thing we could possibly know; eternity is the most comfortable home we could possibly fine.

Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has no limitations.

Most people have a time-bound awareness. And the reason is they have sacrificed their self for their self-image.

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.

The great master key to riches is nothing more or less than the self-discipline necessary to help you take full and complete possession of your own mind.

Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies.

Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.

By becoming self-aware, you gain ownership of reality; in becoming real, you become the master of both inner and outer life.

Petty things become unimportant when people are impassioned about a purpose higher than self.

America is ensnared in self-indulgence and its future hangs in the balance. Our moral and spiritual foundations are rapidly being destroyed. Our arrogance is producing a socialist state that is becoming our god. The entitlement state of mind has created a nation that looks to the government for the answer to our problems, when the only answer is, "Our Father which art in heaven."

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.

Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness.

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.