Quotes about self
self-esteem animal men
The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain self-esteem, deny our mortality, and achieve a heroic self-image. Our desire for the best is the cause of the worst. Sam Keen
self discipline trying
I dont have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar. Sally Phillips
self talking listening
Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening. Ruth Rendell
self roots soul
When you lose all sense of self the bonds of a thousands chains will vanish. Lose yourself completely, return to the root of the root of your own soul. Rumi
self lust desire
There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust.
self remember forgotten
Remember God so much that you are forgotten.
self greed desire
Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.
self class roots
The self-discipline of the Social Democracy is not merely the replacement of the authority of bourgeois rulers with the authority of a socialist central committee. The working class will acquire the sense of the new discipline, the freely assumed self-discipline of the Social Democracy, not as a result of the discipline imposed on it by the capitalist state, but by extirpating, to the last root, its old habits of obedience and servility. Rosa Luxemburg
self historical criticism
Marxism must abhor nothing so much as the possibility that it becomes congealed in its current form. It is at its best when butting heads in self-criticism, and in historical thunder and lightning, it retains its strength.
self roots evil
Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the proletarian movement.
self distortion irrational
Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational. Ron Perlman
self-confidence self appearance
My self-confidence didn't come from my appearance, it came from other things that I did. But certainly not my appearance.
self portraits caricatures
When I draw my caricature self-portrait, I always do a huge smile. Rolf Harris
self-worth records wheels
I jumped off the wheel of fortune because I wanted to simplify things. Now I've fulfilled my obligations to myself by making my new record. I'd like it to sell millions of copies, but my self - worth is not based on chart positions. Roland Gift
selfish animal years
We're a strange animal, so often destroying what we love for selfish ends, and yet tantalized by the sense that there are other choices if only we had strength to make them. In the politics of 400 years ago, we find the same questions we battle with today. Roland Joffe
self people saws
I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them. Roger Zelazny
self practice legislation
Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work. Susan Rice
self imagine hard
It is hard to imagine Thomas Kinkade as anything less than supremely self-assured. Susan Orlean
self half deny
For nothing is so hard to hear as that which is half known, and evaded. One never denies so hotly as in denying to one's self what one fears is true, and one never resents so bitterly as in resenting that which one cannot say one has the right to resent. Susan Glaspell
self-esteem believe feminism
Self-esteem is the basis for feminism because self-esteem is based on defining yourself and believing in that definition. Self-esteem is regarding yourself as a grown-up. Susan Faludi
self consciousness free-will
Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes. Susan Blackmore
self afterlife long
All things considered, I can see no reason to adopt the afterlife hypothesis. I am sure I shall remain in a minority for a long time to come, especially among experiencers, but for me the evidence and the arguments are overwhelming ... We are biological organisms, evolved in fascinating ways for no purpose at all and with no end in mind. We are simply here and this is how it is. I have no self and "I" own nothing. There is no one to die. There is just this moment, and now this, and now this.
self should presentation
Should we become so proficient at self-presentation that we can dissemble without anyone suspecting? Susan Cain
self performing
Every American was to become a performing self.
self-esteem way true-self
...true self-esteem comes from competence, not the other way around.
self phenomenon
Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon. Sugata Mitra
self feelings musician
I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do. Sufjan Stevens
self smell comic
From so much of this seriously-intended pornography there rises, even when it is lewdly or boisterously comic, the acrid smell, unmistakable, of self-dislike. Storm Jameson
self people liberty
Life in the [London] suburb is richer at the lower levels. At these levels the people are not self-conscious at all, they are at liberty to be as eccentric as they please, they do not know that they are eccentric. Stevie Smith
self people negative
The combination of rumination and negative mood is toxic. Research shows that people who ruminate while sad or distraught are likely to feel besieged, powerless, self-critical, pessimistic, and generally negatively biased. Sonja Lyubomirsky
selfish school player
It's not uncommon in the entertainment world for agents to sign young talent. It's sinful that these players can't be represented by lawyers and agents when they're in school. If a player wants to hire someone to seek his value - in any other walk of life, except where this farcical entity that is the NCAA is involved - having a lawyer or agent isn't illegal. It's just the NCAA imposing its own set of rules. It's selfish on their part. Sonny Vaccaro
self order perfect
So often we wait for the climate and conditions in life to be perfect before we feel safe enough to step forward, trust, and be our authentic selves. What we don't realize is that in order to create the ideal climate we are waiting for, we must be authentic first. Sonia Choquette
self framework transcendence
Within alpinism's narrow framework we seek transcendence and relentlessly pursue what remains hidden from us on flat ground: our true selves. Steve House