Quotes about self
self spirit relation
A human being is a spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation. Soren Kierkegaard
self deception infinite
Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception.
self miracle scientist
This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she is.
self fishing monsters
I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self
self relation relate
The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self.
selfish want letting-you-go
Listen up, Wanda. I know exactly what you don't want to be. But we're human, and we're selfish, and we don't always do the right thing. We aren't going to let you go. Deal with it. Stephenie Meyer
selfish worry want
I don't want you to leave Which is exactly why I should. But don't worry. I'm essentially a selfish creature. I crave your company too much to do what I should.
selfish fool idiot
Idiot! Lunatic! Moron! Jackass! Selfish irresponsible fool!
selfish mean talking
You seem cynical because you're always talking about that selfish behavior that's dressed up as altruism. It doesn't mean there isn't altruism. It just means that it's harder to make jokes about altruism. Stephen Colbert
self doubt enormous
The only thing that keeps us going back to one another is that we're all filled with such enormous self-doubt. We have doubts about our ability to be alone, to self-actualize.
self mind deception
The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them non-existent. Stefan Zweig
self-esteem character men
There is nothing that so raises a young man's self-esteem, that so contributes to the formation of his character as for him to find himself unexpectedly confronted with a task which he has to accomplish entirely on his own initiative and by his own efforts.
self support temptation
I would warn any minority student today against the temptations of self-segregation: take support and comfort from your own group as you can, but don’t hide within it. Sonia Sotomayor
selfish people heaven
Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people.
selfish shopping mind
I change my mind so much, I'm better going on my own. Shopping is a selfish activity anyway. Sophie Kinsella
selfish successful men
Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail... Thomas Hardy
self devotion
Complete self-devotion is woman's part. Thomas B. Macaulay
self design kind
Most business models have focused on self interest instead of user experience. Those are the kinds of problems we solve to solve. Tim Cook
self morality interest
Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality. Thomas Jefferson
self mercy fortune
Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of nominal money with which their avarice deluges us.
self justice ears
We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.
self age add
We have become a society that can't self-correct, that can't address its obvious problems, that can't pull out of its nosedive. And so to our list of disasters let us add this fourth entry: we have entered an age of folly that - for all our Facebooking and the twittling tweedle-dee-tweets of the twitterati - we can't wake up from. Thomas Frank
self-respect fit
Few are fit to be entrusted with themselves. Thomas Fuller
self defense self-defense
I read in self-defense. Woody Allen
self tree defense
A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.
self qualms-about water
Comics speak, without qualm or sophistication, to the innermost ears of the wishful self. The response is like that of a thirsty traveler who suddenly finds water in the desert - he drinks to satiation. William Moulton Marston
selfish suffering add
God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering. William Nicholson
selfish here-i-am people
Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn't necessarily want us to be happy. He wants us to be lovable. Worthy of love. Able to be loved by Him. We don't start off being all that lovable, if we're honest. What makes people hard to love? Isn't it what is commonly called selfishness? Selfish people are hard to love because so little love comes out of them.
self enemy needs
Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.
self people doubt
It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt. William J. Clinton
self years law
In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace as recommended by the commission headed by former congresswoman Barbara Jordan. We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.
self years law
It is wrong, and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws that we have seen...in recent years. There is too much of it, and we must do much more to stop it." "The fact is that employer sanctions have been in the law...since 1986 but no prior administration has made a serious attempt to enforce them.
self brain atoms
The self-same atoms which, chaotically dispersed, made the nebula, now, jammed and temporarily caught in peculiar positions, form our brains; and the 'evolution' of brains, if understood, would be simply the account of how the atoms came to be so caught and jammed. William James