Quotes about self
self-worth views numbers
A lot of people want to have market share numbers, lots of users, because that's how they view their self worth. For me, one of the most important things for Linux is having a big community that is actively testing new kernels; it's the only way to support the absolute insane amount of different hardware we deal with. Linus Torvalds
self-esteem style
Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't. Linda Ellerbee
self-control mentor
I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor. Leo Tolstoy
self laughing feelings
To laugh is to risk appearing a fool, to weep is to risk appearing too sentimental, to reach out for another is to risk involvement, and to expose feelings is to risk exposing one's true self. Leo Buscaglia
self people suffering
So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at a famine and wonder where God is, but the world produces enough food for each person to have 3,000 calories a day. It's our own irresponsibility and self-centeredness that prevents people from getting fed. Lee Strobel
selfish parent looks
You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I'm astonished at how I lived my life - it was totally self-involved. Lauren Holly
self age firsts
Self-parody is the first portent of age. Larry McMurtry
self surrender paradox
Self control is about being in charge of the direction our lives are taking. Now for the paradox: We get control of our lives, ultimately, not by will power but by surrender. Lewis B. Smedes
self way mazes
I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words. Lewis H. Lapham
self torches delight
From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter and cadence -- in Gibbon's polyphonic counterpoint and Guedalla's command of the subjunctive, in Mailer's hyperbole and Dillard's similes, in Twain's invectives and burlesques with which he set the torch of his ferocious wit to the hospitality tents of the world's colossal humbug . . . I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.
selfish men pigs
I'm a selfish, little pig of a man. Lewis Black
self stupidity irritated
When I come upon anything-in Logic or in any other hard subject-that entirely puzzles me, I find it a capital plan to talk it over, aloud, even when I am all alone. One can explain things so clearly to one's self! And then, you know, one is so patient with one's self: one never gets irritated at one's own stupidity! Lewis Carroll
self order two
In order to be a good writer, you've got to be a bad boss. Self-discipline and stamina are the two major arms in a writer's arsenal. Leon Uris
selfish love-you mean
The term revolution means: a sudden, radical, and complete change from the way things are normally done. I love that definition because I really feel that in order for us to start walking in the kind of love that Christ commanded us to - the "love your neighbor as yourself" kind - it's going to take a radical change in our current behavior. The church has become passive and selfish and it's going to take a revolution to get us back to the place where we are not just talking the talk, but walking in a love that shows the world Christ's love. Joyce Meyer
self deceit self-sufficient
Perhaps the greatest self-deceit is to tell ourselves that we can be self-sufficient. Joseph Stowell
self-esteem rare-moments seeing
The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing. Joseph Wood Krutch
self environmental balance
The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.
selfish roots desire
Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification. Joseph Campbell
self hero-journey favors
For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state,
self historical ifs
There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
self expression shapes
There's still such chaos in me. Still so little firmly outlined. Just like my face: a formless mass that only takes on shape through the expression of the moment. The searching for our selves is the most agonizing Karen Horney
self deception may
Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.
self valuable search-for-truth
To search for truth about self is as valuable as to search for truth in other areas of life.
selfishness results humans
Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself. Julio Cortazar
self lists motivated
There's nothing self-serving about what motivated me to bring 'Schindler's List' to the screen. Steven Spielberg
self play able
I'm not as self-destructive as Dylan Thomas, but I've certainly been around that behavior enough to have found it a release. The thing that I really enjoyed was being able to play misery. Tom Hollander
self-esteem esteem best-things
You your own best thing, Sethe. You are. Toni Morrison
self hands naked
She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was not a comrade and could never be - for a woman. And that no one would ever be that version of herself which she sought to reach out to and touch with an ungloved hand. There was only her own mood and whim, and if that was all there was, she decided to turn the naked hand toward it, discover it and let others become as intimate with their own selves as she was.
self tests strange
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
self personal-transformation transition
Disease can be seen as a call for personal transformation through metamorphosis. It is a transition from the death of your old self into the birth of your new. Tom O'Connor
self age examination
In an age of constant live connections, the central question of self-examination is drifting from ‘Who are you?’ towards ‘What are you doing? Tom Chatfield
self rocks people
Tracy: Stop eating people's old french fries, little pigeon. Have some self-respect. Don't you know you can fly? Tina Fey
self ruts persons
There is something therapeutic about doing for others that lifts a person out of the rut of self-thought. Tim LaHaye