Quotes about self
self understanding drug
Advocates of psychiatric drugs often claim that the medications improve learning and the ability to benefit from psychotherapy, but the contrary is true. There are no drugs that improve mental function, self-understanding, or human relations. Any drug that affects mental processes does so by impairing them. Peter Breggin
self understanding patterns
It becomes increasingly clear that we won’t be free of self-destructive patterns unless we develop a compassionate understanding of what they are. Pema Chodron
self faults findings
There's something delicious about finding fault with something. And that can be including finding fault with one's self, you know?
self bird tree
Being preoccupied with our self-image is like being deaf and blind. It's like standing in the middle of a vast field of wildflowers with a black hood over our heads. It's like coming upon a tree of singing birds while wearing earplugs.
self essence bravery
Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions.
selfish principles thinker
Considering yourself selflessly selfish is a principle of all great thinkers Phil Collins
self worship enough
The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship. Peter Coyote
self-love
You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself. Pearl Bailey
self childhood feelings
One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not. We who control our feelings, who avoid conflicts at all costs, or seem to seek them. Who are hypersensitive, self-critical, compulsive, workaholic, and above all survivors. We are not that way from perversity, and we cannot just relax and let it go. We’ve learned to cope in ways you never had to. Piers Anthony
self self-pity pity
self-pity is better than none. Phyllis Diller
self broken proud
Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died. Philip Pullman
self musical want
The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesnt want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free. Rachel Cusk
self bored awful
Listen to me: I never married because I was too easily bored. It's an awful, self-defeating trait to have. It's much better to be too easily interested. Rachel Cohn
self goal lines
By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything. Queen Rania of Jordan
selfish men doctors
Oh! If those selfish men, who are the cause of all one's misery, only knew what their poor slaves go through! What suffering, what humiliation to the delicate feelings of a poor woman, above all a young one, especially with those nasty doctors. Queen Victoria
self-esteem self-confidence boost-self-esteem
Repect yourself... The rest will follow. Pythagoras
self-esteem people focus
If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on. Queen Latifah
self-esteem people trying
I approach the film business the way I feel about self-esteem. It's something that has to be maintained. That's kind of how I feel about positive roles in Hollywood. They have to be maintained. You have to purposefully, intentionally try to make the right type of films. And the more people that do that, the more things will continue to improve.
self-esteem trying helping
I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.
self brave enough
Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.
self deception self-deception
The worst of all deceptions is self-deception. Plato
self essence self-knowledge
The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge,
self curiosity want
What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always hurdle self-interest? Or is it, more simply, that wanting to know the worst is love's favorite perversion. Julian Barnes
self giving firsts
The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory. This second aspect is the one which from Kant, until the present time, has formed the deeper problem of thought. Josiah Royce
self fire serenity
Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with. Joseph J. Ellis
self done matter
The hunger [to success] is the same, no matter what it is that you're doing. It's like an unquenchable thirst to learn more, or to feel like you could have done more, and to be brutally honest and self critical, which is very hard to do. It's easy, and human nature is to just blame somebody else. It's very, very hard to self assess. Kobe Bryant
self-esteem men numbers
The number one goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain their self-esteem. You don't hit a man on the head when you've got your fingers between his teeth. Kofi Annan
self order entrepreneur
Founded on the principles of private initiative, entrepreneurship and self-employment, underpinned by the values of democracy, equality and solidarity, the co-operative movement can help pave the way to a more just and inclusive economic order.
self-esteem forget forget-you
You do more for yourself when you forget yourself. Ron Kaufman
self service-culture profound
Selfless acts are a source of profound meaning for your self and your life.
self calling may
If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it 'focused.' Roger Rosenblatt
self might pay
The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.
self monsters persons
Anytime you make a person into something other than himself, you make a monster.