Quotes about self
self feelings different
Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self? Haruki Murakami
self-esteem typewriters deep-breathing
When you're all alone out there, on the end of the typewriter, with each new story a new appraisal by the world of whether you can still get it up or not, arrogance and self-esteem and deep breathing are all you have. It often looks like egomania. I assure you it's the bold coverup of the absolutely terrified. Harlan Ellison
self people church
Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
self fame interest
I do not like to "interest" the public with myself. Gustave Flaubert
self destruction aggressive
Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction. Greg Bear
self elephants empathy
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. Graydon Carter
selfish years guy
Try not to be four years into a relationship when it suddenly dawns on you that the guy you're with is a big, selfish jerk. Greg Behrendt
self government culture
Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government. Gilbert K. Chesterton
selfish confused cities
The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle, because it is confused and anarchic, and surging with selfish and materialistic energies.
selfish trust-no-one literature
We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive. Lord Byron
self envy doubt
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
self likes vote
Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance. Lord Acton
self political denial
Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.
self woe consumers
I am the self-consumer of my woes, John Clare
self ego inappropriate
You can't make Christ funny. He's self-aware, he's too flexible within the situation. It's rigidity, it's when the ego takes over and the behavior becomes inappropriate that it becomes funny. John Cleese
self-esteem years three
The foundation for our self-image is grounded in the first three years of life. It comes from our major caretaker's mirroring. John Bradshaw
self ego spotlight
Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.
self knowing-who-you-are opinion
Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are.
self priorities want
All of us must come to an honest, open self-examination, an awareness within as to who and what we want to be. M. Russell Ballard
self discipline feelings
The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline. M. Scott Peck
self hands and-love
Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.
self growth purpose
The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.
self impossible good-enough
What I will say is that what I have learned for myself is that I don’t have to be anybody else; and that myself is good enough; and that when I am being true to that self, then I can avail myself to extraordinary thingsYou have to allow for the impossible to be possible. Lupita Nyong'o
selfish expectations sake
I do this for the sake of myself. It's a selfish process. I don't really have any expectations from anyone for your comments or your reviews or your previews. Lupe Fiasco
self laughing comedian
You learn to laugh at yourself and you also lean on comedy as a crutch to kind of take the edge off because comedians often are self-deprecating and they cross lines that they shouldn't. Stuff like that brings a smile to my face every once in a while when needed. John Cena
self long trying
And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well -- but 'tis not true! Matthew Arnold
self political ordinary
Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.
selfish fighting people
I just try to find ways to love the people that I'm around. It's hard sometimes because I'm selfish and I want to focus inwardly but when I can fight against that and look at other people's needs, it's really a stark contrast to what people are used to in such a selfish environment. Matt Diaz
self envy interesting
And didn't it always go like that--body parts not lining up the way you wanted them to, all of it a little bit off, as if the world itself were an animated sequence of longing and envy and self-hatred and grandiosity and failure and success, a strange and endless cartoon loop that you couldn't stop watching, because, despite all you knew by now, it was still so interesting. Meg Wolitzer
self pieces mosaics
To be anorexic...she thought, amounted to wanting to shed yourself of some of the imperfect mosaic of pieces that made you who you were. She could understand that now for, maybe underneath that desquamated self you would locate a new version.
self ideas personality
We act, we behave, and we feel the vibration that we're in at the present time according to what we consider our self image to be. And we do not deviate from that pattern. The image you hold of yourself is a premise, a foundation (idea) on which your entire personality is built. This image, not only controls your behavior but your circumstances as well. Maxwell Maltz
self adequate realistic
To really 'live,' that is to find life reasonably satisfying, you must have an adequate and realistic self-image that you can life with. You must find yourself acceptable to 'you.'
self-esteem body spirit
Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to the body.