Quotes about self
self peculiar cosmos
One of the peculiar ironies of being a human self in the Cosmos: A stranger approaching you in the street will in a second's glance see you whole, size you up, place you in a way in which you cannot and never will, even though you have spent a lifetime with yourself, live in the Century of the Self, and therefore ought to know yourself best of all. Walker Percy
self class people
The healthy spirit of self-help created among working people would, more than any other measure, serve to raise them as a class; and this, not by pulling down others, but by levelling them up to a higher and still advancing standard of religion, intelligence, and virtue. Samuel Smiles
self roots growth
The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigour and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates
self humanity mind
What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself. Samuel Richardson
self accusation applause
Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause.
self literature waste
I have nothing but wastes and wilds of self-translation before me for many miserable months to come. Samuel Beckett
self giving imagination
The imagination ... that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were) the flux of the senses by the permanence and self-circling energies of the reason, gives birth to a system of symbols, harmonious in themselves, and consubstantial with the truths of which they are the conductors. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
self enthusiasm swallowing
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
selfish believe heart
The [Oregon] Journal in its head and heart will stand for the people, be truly Democratic and free from political entanglements and machinations, believing in the principles that promise the greatest good to the greatest number-to ALL MEN, regardless of race, creed or previous condition of servitude... It will be a fair newspaper, not a dull and selfish sheet... Samuel L. Jackson
self hands two
Perhaps that's what I feel, an outside and an inside and me in the middle, perhaps that's what I am, the thing that divides the world in two, on the one side the outside, on the other the inside, that can be as thin as foil, I'm neither one side nor the other, I'm in the middle, I'm the partition, I've two surfaces and no thickness, perhaps that's what I feel, myself vibrating, I'm the tympanum, on the one hand the mind, on the other the world, I don't belong to either.
self ease way
As a woman, you should be more at ease with your sexuality when you are in your 40s...You are more self-assured about that part. And that's the way it should be. Salma Hayek
self people worried
We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions. Salman Rushdie
self roots identity
A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
self secret permission
We crave permission openly to become our secret selves.
self people alive
Like a lot of people, I've got a self-loathing streak that's alive and well. It acts as a de facto engine when I'm working, but it also has its extraordinary pitfalls, too. Ryan Reynolds
self want persons
I am not self-destructive. I am not a person who wants to die. Whitney Houston
self-esteem believe angel
There are, however, exceptions to this reliance on feelings as evidence of truth: if, for instance, your feelings lead to disbelief instead of belief, they're apt to be dismissed as some form of denial. This is not a common problem. Usually intellectualism, not feeling reality, is blamed for disbelief. But, some angel experts suggest, there may be emotional as well as intellectual barriers to belief: unwillingness to believe in angels can reflect low self-esteem.
self expression might
what might once have been called whining is now exalted as a process of asserting selfhood; self-absorption is regarded as a form of self-expression ...
self-confidence inability apathy
Disempowerment - whether defined in terms of a lack of self-confidence , apathy, fear, or an inability to take charge of one's own life - is perhaps the most unrecognised problem in Africa today. Wangari Maathai
self self-pity pity
All pity is self-pity. W. H. Auden
self feelings doubt
The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.
selfish stupid voice
Beloved, we are always in the wrong, Handling so clumsily our stupid lives, Suffering too little or too long, Too careful even in our selfish loves: The decorative manias we obey Die in grimaces round us every day, Yet through their tohu-bohu comes a voice Which utters an absurd command - Rejoice.
self enough existence
A god who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his existence.
selfish ambition men
Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the attainment of all that a man can be. William Clark
self prejudice politics
I set out as a sort of self-dependent politician. My opinions were my own. I dashed at all prejudices. I scorned to follow anybodyin matter of opinion.... All were, therefore, offended at my presumption, as they deemed it. William Cobbett
self tree shade
We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread, And range an Indian waste without a tree. William Cowper
selfish believe order
We must honor our worthiness in order to receive what we want. In our society we are conditioned to believe that we are not worthy, and that it is even selfish to want to be able to attract things into our lives. Wayne Dyer
self people long
Excuses are the explanations we use for hanging on to behaviors we don't like about ourselves; they are self-defeating behaviors we don't know how to change. InExcuses Begone! I review 18 of the most common excuses people use, such as "I'm too busy, too old, too fat, too scared or it's going to take too long or be too difficult."
self-esteem eye planets
In God's eyes, no one on this planet is any better than you.
self self-forgiveness
All forgiveness is self forgiveness.
self-esteem self-confidence unique
You have a one of a kind gift to offer this world, and you are unique in the entire history of creation.
self-esteem self-confidence hair
Be aware of your infinite connection to your source. Know that you're more than an encapsulated collection of bones, blood and organs in a skin and hair covered body.
self-esteem needs enough
Accept that you are enough. You don't need to be anything that you are not.