Quotes about self
self literature may
A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand. Virginia Woolf
self sick want
I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.
self perception consciousness
Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
self goes-on
A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
self breathing long
For a moment the feeling crept over me that my work, my vision, is going to destroy me, and for a fleeting moment I let myself take a long, hard look at myself, something I would not otherwise do--out of instinct, on principle, out of self-preservation--look at myself with objective curiosity to see whether my vision has not destroyed me already. I found it comforting to note that I was still breathing. Werner Herzog
self servant justification
Self-justification is a treacherous servant.
self looks knows
Do we know what we look like? Not really. Walker Evans
self boredom bored
Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself. Walker Percy
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.
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 roots identity
A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self. Salman Rushdie
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 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 want rooms
Found myself screaming in a hotel room. I didn't want to self-destruct. Kendrick Lamar
self faults virtue
Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue. Kelly Miller