Quotes about self
self-esteem fake looks
I had very, very bad self-esteem - that I was a fake, everybody was going to find out, that I didn't deserve to have success, just about my looks and really, really bad self esteem. Geena Davis
self mindfulness glorious
By removing that which is petty and self-seeking, we bring forth all that is glorious and mindful of the whole. Eknath Easwaran
self work-out effort
It is not action or effort that we must surrender; it is self-will, and this is terribly difficult. You must do your best constantly, yet never allow yourself to become involved in whether things work out the way you want.
self shining ego
Do not feed your ego and your problems, with your attention. ...Slowly, surely, the ego will lose weight, until one fine day it will be nothing but a thin ghost of its former self. You will be able to see right through it, to the divine presence that shines in each of us.
self iowa calling
A major Iowa newspaper published an op-ed against Trump calling him a 'self-absorbed, wholly unqualified feckless blowhard.' Or as Trump put it, 'You forgot very rich ... I'm a very rich, self-absorbed, wholly unqualified feckless blowhard. Very, very rich.' Jimmy Fallon
self pay injustice
Shake off the self-pity, shake off the defeat and get ready for God to do something new. He is going to pay you back for every injustice. Joel Osteen
self helping positive-change
Self-love helps me make positive changes easily Louise Hay
self-esteem love-yourself loving-yourself
If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.
self-love messages body
I listen with love to my body's messages.
self-esteem heart planets
There is so much love in your heart that you could heal the planet.
self facts characteristics
It is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts, Louis Althusser
selfish nice reading
This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication. Logan Pearsall Smith
self mirrors people
People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.
selfish care sound
I do enjoy my own company. I cannot imagine anybody entertaining me more than I do. If it sounds selfish, I don't care. I made it a religion almost. Manolo Blahnik
self tunes looks
I don't like to be my own audience, I find that being my own audience, being in the audience, makes me self-conscious, basically. So I tune in sometimes, with the sound off, to check it out and I back up to it. In the future I will look at it when some time has passed. Madeline Kahn
self kind consciousness
A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort of a ventilator from the interior. Lucy Larcom
self lapses want
If any person wants to see clearly just how much she has changed - whether for better or worse - let her revisit after some lapse of time any place where she has ones lived. She will meet her former self at every turn, with every familiar face, in every old recollection ... She will see how much she has gained in some respects, how much she has lost - irretrievably lost - in others. Lucy Maud Montgomery
self-esteem winning race
Self-esteem can’t win you a race if you’re not in shape. Louis Zamperini
self hell born
It's a hell of a thing to be born, and if you're born you're at least entitled to your own self. Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
self
…it is so much better to work for others than for one's self alone. Louisa May Alcott
self years profound
If there is one thing I’ve learned in my years on this planet, it’s that the happiest and most fulfilled people I’ve known are those who devoted themselves to something bigger and more profound than merely their own self interest. John Glenn
self ruins
How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old? John Fowles
self age adulthood
Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of 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.