We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the nex….
The prayer of words cannot be eliminated. And I must pray them daily, whether I feel like praying or not. Otherwise, when God as something to say to ….
Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is ….
The only aberration is denial of self..
When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays..
If there's anything I'd like to preach about, the loudest, other than the Gospel, it's selfishness. If there's anything I'd like to impress upon the ….
I have a clear view of 12 years of history of my inner self. First the cramped self, that self with big blinkers, then the disappearance of the blink….
In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
There is little advantage in pleasing ourselves when we please no one else, for our great self-love is often chastised by the scorn of others..
There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion..
We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves..
It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk ….
Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity..
Charm lies in complete forgetfulness of self..
Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indi….
We have become a society where the artist is regarded as a self-indulgent superfluity, and the person who juggles stocks and shares is an essential p….
The self as the essence of individuality is unitemporal and unique; as an archetypal symbol it is a God-image and therefore universal and eternal..
A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored….
The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back..
One way to eliminate self negating thoughts and behavior is by gaining more understanding through realizing that you cannot force others to see that ….
I was a self-centered bore. I was masochistic, and only thought I was happy. When I woke up and said, "there must be something wrong with me", I grew….