Quotes about self
self-esteem very-happy feels
I don't feel like my money or my success defines me. I've always been very happy just bein' me. Lauryn Hill
selfishness size stinginess
stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing. Laura Lippman
self people interesting
What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships. Laura Linney
self waiting firsts
For now, we assume that self-evolving robots will learn to mimic human traits, including, eventually, humor. And so, I can't wait to hear the first joke that one robot tells to another robot. Lance Morrow
self self-reliance absolute-freedom
Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance Lisa Murkowski
self discovery matter
Once you've started down that road to self-discovery, no matter how treacherous the path before you, you can't turn back. The universe doesn't allow it. Lisa Unger
self easy should
Easy, Marks,' he whispered. 'One of us has to have some self-control, and it really should be you. Lisa Kleypas
selfish peacock
Only you could love such a vile, selfish peacock, Evie.
self way loathing
I don't trust anyone who hasn't been self-destructiv e in some way, and who hasn't gone through some sort of bout of self-loathing. You've got to bang yourself around a bit to know yourself. Johnny Depp
self ideas people
My self-image it still isn't that alright. No matter how famous I am, no matter how many people go to see my movies, I still have the idea that I'm that pale no-hoper that I used to be. A pale no-hoper that happens to be a little lucky now. Tomorrow it'll be all over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again.
self examination fiction
Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet. John Updike
selfish decision made
I never made a decision in my life that wasn't one hundred per cent selfish.
selfish party boys
In fact we do not try to picture the afterlife, nor is it our selves in our nervous tics and optical flecks that we wish to perpetuate; it is the self as the window on the world that we can't bear to thinkof shutting. My mind when I was a boy of ten or eleven sent up its silent scream at the thought of future aeons -- at the thought of the cosmic party going on without me. The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise of the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.
self consciousness turns
A writer's self-consciousness, for which he is much scorned, is really a mode of interestedness, that inevitably turns outward.
self creative use
The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.
selfish light opposites
The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.
self essentials literature
The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
self self-knowledge bases
Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge. John Taylor Gatto
self joy looking-forward
[I] put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, "No! John Stuart Mill
selfish would-be doctrine
It would be a great misunderstanding of this doctrine to suppose that it is one of selfish indifference about the well-being of others'.
selfishness next causes
Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
selfish intelligent animal
Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs.
self decision needs
He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision.
self library improvement
The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was. John Redwood
self social claims
The claims of existing social arrangements and of self interest have been duly allowed for. We cannot at the end count them a second time because we do not like the result. John Rawls
self needs spots
We all need a bit of self-delusion. It gets us over the difficult spots. John Ralston Saul
self civilization democracy
Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals as the citizen in a democracy. The particular imbalance of this ideology leads to a worship of self-interest and a denial of the public good. The practical effects on the individual are passivity and conformism in the areas that matter, and non-conformism in the areas that don't
self joy servant-leadership
Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living. James Hunter
selfish thinking shoes
Secrets are inherently selfish. The longer you keep them, the harder it is to put yourself in other people's shoes about them and the more irrational your thinking surrounding it becomes. James Scott
self restraint clear
Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint. James Russell Lowell
self people four
Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty. James Q. Wilson
self inner-peace peaceful
The true, or higher part of the self is always seeking the state that mystics talk about, the state in which we are filled with a universal love and a peaceful euphoria. James Redfield
self land independence
Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency. James H. Douglas