Quotes about self
self littles becoming
We learn by watching. That's what concerns me a little about the society we're in now because so much of what we're watching is entitled, self-centered, brats with no talent becoming very, very famous for literally no reason. Laura Benanti
selfish selfish-person persons
I am a very selfish person. Lara Flynn Boyle
self denial aberration
The only aberration is denial of self. L. Ron Hubbard
self-confidence decision belief
Self-confidence is nothing more than belief in one’s ability to decide and in one’s decisions. L. Ron Hubbard
self makers ends
The end of every maker is himself. Thomas Aquinas
self giving sandwiches
I often steal sandwiches, eat them, and put the container's back., with a signed autograph of my self in its place. It's my way of giving back to society. Thom Yorke
self done interest
Nothing's done well when it's done out of self-interest. Therese of Lisieux
self-esteem school support
What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship. Terry Tempest Williams
self desert sacred
If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self. There is no place to hide and so we are found. Terry Tempest Williams
self holy grapes
All holy piety in public, and all peeled grapes and self-indulgence in private. Terry Pratchett
self invisible pleasure
I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person. Terry Gross
self ego would-be
In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But all this is merely at the 'imaginary' level of the ego, which is no more than the tip of the iceberg of the human subject known to psychoanalysis . The ego is function or effect of a subject which is always dispersed, never identical with itself, strung out along the chains of the discourses which constitute it. Terry Eagleton
self superstitions improvement
An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a faith in our capacity for limitless self-improvement just as much a wide-eyed superstition as a faith in leprechauns. Terry Eagleton
self wizards truth-is
Wizard's Tenth Rule Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self. Terry Goodkind
selfish moon dreamer
Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer! Tennessee Williams
self order dimensions
We are alienated, so alienated that the self must disguise itself as an extraterrestrial in order not to alarm us with the truly bizarre dimensions that it encompasses. Terence McKenna
self levels ascent
This is the nature of going forward into being: A series of self-transforming ascents of level. Terence McKenna
self process reflecting
The Gaian process is more than a process. It is s self-reflecting entelechy of some sort. Terence McKenna
self mind desert
The Gaian mind is what were calling the psychedelic experience. Its an experience of the living fact of the entelechy of the planet - and without that experience we wander in a desert of bogus ideologies. But with that experience the compass of the self can be set. Terence McKenna
self disease alcoholism
Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image. Terence McKenna
self knows
How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self? Terence McKenna
self drug may
The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience. Terence McKenna
self space mind
Psychedelics are not flashlights into the chaos of the Freudian unconscious, they are tools for mathematically unpacking your mind into a higher dimensional space. In the Newtonian and print created space that we are walking around in you, are like a self extracting archive, that hasn't self extracted itself yet. Terence McKenna
self talking sea
For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe, the absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception. Terence McKenna
self despair psychedelic
Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven social process. Terence McKenna
self civilization ego
If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization. Terence McKenna
self two mystery
The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries. Terence McKenna
self racist blind
I was really worn down by an American society that is racist, smugly blind to it, and hugely self-satisfied. Randall Robinson
self-reliance ultimate-success cheat
No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
selfish men suffering
The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit. Ralph Waldo Emerson
self-reliance degrees fluid
There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees. Ralph Waldo Emerson
self-reliance aversion conformity
The virtue in most request is conformity. Ralph Waldo Emerson
self originality accuracy
What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are. Ralph Waldo Emerson