Quotes about self
selfish people wish
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it. Oscar Wilde
self-esteem people trying
I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem. Kanye West
self-esteem association needs
Brands are selling our self-esteem back to us, through association. We need to own our brands.
self-worth self misery
Self worth is everything. Without it life is a misery. Julie Walters
selfish should-have victory
When I read the Bible, I see that we should have victory in our life and be overcomers, and I can't even control my temper. I'm impatient. I'm hard to get along with. I'm selfish and self-centered, and I don't seem to have any control over it. Joyce Meyer
selfish impossible
It is impossible to be both selfish and happy
self soul mind
Your soul is your mind, your will and your emotions. When the Word gets rooted in there and begins to change your mind, it begins to heal your emotions and turn your will away from self-will and onto doing the will of God.
self-confidence self needs
We don’t need self-confidence we need God-confidence
self-esteem prove esteem
You're not free, unless you come to the place where you have nothing to prove.
self unity principles
I have given no definition of love. This is impossible, because there is no higher principle by which it could be defined. It is life itself in its actual unity. The forms and structures in which love embodies itself are the forms and structures in which love overcomes its self-destructive forces. Paul Tillich
self vanishing improvement
The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace. Paul Theroux
self individuality conformity
I am neither for conformity nor non-conformity. I am for individuality. If one's individuality is in effect non-conformity, then so be it. But basically, one's individuality consists of conformity--to one's self. Paul Krassner
self ideas australia
The lesson of the Federation should be that the lesson is over. Australia must have a new idea of itself. We have to strike out in a new direction, in a new way, armed with our own self-regard, our own confidence and fully appreciating our own uniqueness. All other roads will lead us into the shadow of great powers. Paul Keating
self drawing lines
In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better. Paul Klee
self play light
Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability based on the play of energies.
self grandfather inward
Our grandfathers lived in a world of largely self-sufficient, inward-looking national economies — but our great-great grandfathers lived, as we do, in a world of large-scale international trade and investment, a world destroyed by nationalism. Paul Krugman
self details awareness
Through conscious beings the universe has generated self-awareness. This can be no trivial detail, no minor byproduct of mindless, purposeless forces. We are truly meant to be here. Paul Davies
self-esteem normal haha
Good! Hang in there! It's normal! [Low self-esteem] Often it's a sign of intelligence (but don't let that go to your head haha) Patrick Stump
selfish arrogant world
Self-deprecating or arrogant, it's all selfish. Hard as it is, life's better when you spend more time on the rest of the world
self views political
And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy. Patrick Dempsey
self motorcycle stilettos
Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt. Maggie Grace
self-confidence boys hunting
Adam wasn't certain what came first with Blue--her treating the boys as friends, or them all becoming friends. It seemed to Adam that this circular way to build relationships required a healthy amount of self-confidence to undertake. And it was a strange sort of magic that it felt like she'd always been hunting for Glendower with them. Maggie Stiefvater
selfish silly fall
Gansey leaned back, head thrown to the side, drunken and silly with happiness. "I love this car," he said, loud enough to be heard over the engine. "I should buy four more of them. I'll just open the door of one to fall in to the other. One can be a living room, one can be my kitchen, I'll sleep in one..." "And the fourth? Butler's pantry?" Blue shouted. "Don't be so selfish. Guest room.
selfish promise want
I wasn’t sure which of us was being more selfish—her, for wanting something that no one could promise, or me, for not promising her something that was too painfully impossible to want.
self laughing kitchen
Sam laughed, a funny, self-deprecating laugh. "You did read a lot. And spent too much time just inside the kitchen window, where I couldn't see you very well." "And not enough time mostly naked in front of my bedroom window?" I teased. Sam turned bright red. "That," he said, "is so not the point of this conversation.
self self-control grace-brisbane
I’m not looking for self-control.
self grace overestimate
Sam: “You—you greatly overestimate my self-control.” Grace: “I’m not looking for self-control.
self self-destruction destruction
I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction. Mackenzie Phillips
self causes sensitive
Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others. Madame de Stael
selfishness atheism baseness
Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness.
self somewhere-else pathways
This person, this self, this me, finally, was made somewhere else. Everything had come from somewhere else, and it would all go somewhere else. I was nothing but a pathway for the person known as me. Haruki Murakami
self years mind
No matter what you tell me, no matter how legitimate your reasons, I can never just forget about you, I can never push the years we spent together out of my mind. I can't do it because it really happened, they are part of my life, and there is no way I can just erase them. That would be the same as erasing my own self.
self darkness want
A certain kind of shittiness, a certain kind of stagnation, a certain kind of darkness, goes on propagating itself by its own power in its own self-contained cycle. And once it passes a certain point, no one can stop it-even if the person himself wants to stop it.