Quotes about self
self-esteem recovery emotional
If you have high self-esteem, you might still know times of emotional suffering, but less often and with faster recovery-your resilience is greater. Nathaniel Branden
self guilt done
What is guilt? It is moral self-reproach-I did wrong when it was possible to have done otherwise.
self-esteem home people
We tend to feel most comfortable, "most at home", with people whose self esteem level resembles our own.
self-esteem self-worth possibility
Our motive is not to prove our self-worth, but to live up to our possibilities.
self-esteem stronger needs
The higher our self-esteem, the stronger the drive to express ourselves, reflecting the sense of richness within. The lower our self-esteem, the more urgent the need to "prove" ourselves or to forget ourselves by living mechanically and unconsciously.
self-esteem eye acceptance
The more you surrender to the fear of someone's disapproval, the more you lose face in your own eyes, and the more desperate you become for someone's approval. Within you is a void that should have been filled by self-esteem. When you attempt to fill it with the approval of others instead, the void grows deeper and the hunger for acceptance and approval grows stronger. The only solution is to summon the courage to honor your own judgment, frightening though that may be in the beginning.
self-esteem expression accomplishment
Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.
self makers ends
The end of every maker is himself. Thomas Aquinas
self giving sandwiches
I often steal sandwiches, eat them, and put the container's back., with a signed autograph of my self in its place. It's my way of giving back to society. Thom Yorke
self done interest
Nothing's done well when it's done out of self-interest. Therese of Lisieux
self-esteem school support
What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship. Terry Tempest Williams
self desert sacred
If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self. There is no place to hide and so we are found.
self holy grapes
All holy piety in public, and all peeled grapes and self-indulgence in private. Terry Pratchett
self invisible pleasure
I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person. Terry Gross
self ego would-be
In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But all this is merely at the 'imaginary' level of the ego, which is no more than the tip of the iceberg of the human subject known to psychoanalysis . The ego is function or effect of a subject which is always dispersed, never identical with itself, strung out along the chains of the discourses which constitute it. Terry Eagleton
self superstitions improvement
An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a faith in our capacity for limitless self-improvement just as much a wide-eyed superstition as a faith in leprechauns.
self wizards truth-is
Wizard's Tenth Rule Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self. Terry Goodkind
selfish moon dreamer
Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer! Tennessee Williams
self order dimensions
We are alienated, so alienated that the self must disguise itself as an extraterrestrial in order not to alarm us with the truly bizarre dimensions that it encompasses. Terence McKenna
self levels ascent
This is the nature of going forward into being: A series of self-transforming ascents of level.
self process reflecting
The Gaian process is more than a process. It is s self-reflecting entelechy of some sort.
self mind desert
The Gaian mind is what were calling the psychedelic experience. Its an experience of the living fact of the entelechy of the planet - and without that experience we wander in a desert of bogus ideologies. But with that experience the compass of the self can be set.
self disease alcoholism
Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image.
self knows
How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
self drug may
The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.
self space mind
Psychedelics are not flashlights into the chaos of the Freudian unconscious, they are tools for mathematically unpacking your mind into a higher dimensional space. In the Newtonian and print created space that we are walking around in you, are like a self extracting archive, that hasn't self extracted itself yet.
self talking sea
For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe, the absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
self despair psychedelic
Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven social process.
self civilization ego
If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.
self two mystery
The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.
self racist blind
I was really worn down by an American society that is racist, smugly blind to it, and hugely self-satisfied. Randall Robinson
self-reliance ultimate-success cheat
No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
selfish men suffering
The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.