Quotes about self
self meditation-practice differences
Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self. Sharon Salzberg
self shopping house
For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I'd get self-conscious. Shannen Doherty
self records way
I don't enjoy the work that I do. It's just that it's not self-sustaining anymore. The way that I like to make records - they're expensive records to make and just can't afford to do it anymore. Natalie Merchant
self details conscious
Be awake to the details around you, but don't be self-conscious. Natalie Goldberg
self optimism doubt
I’ve questioned everything about myself, every step of the way. You have to have the same amount of fear and self-doubt as you do hope and blind optimism. Taylor Swift
self trying stills
I'd like to be my old self again but I'm still trying to find it
self want vain
I never want to end up being a self-centered, vain human being.
self people priorities
It's important to be self-aware about what people are saying about you, but even more so, be very aware of who you actually are, and to have that be the main priority.
self-worth giving acting
My acting gives me my self-worth Tavis Smiley
selfish team believe
I'm not a selfish actor. I believe that it's a team effort. You're not in a scene by yourself. Taraji P. Henson
self feelings disappear
As I noticed feelings and thoughts appear and disappear, it became increasingly clear that they were just coming and going on their own. . . . There was no sense of a self owning them. Tara Brach
self feelings psychology
I would say both Western psychology and Eastern paths would recognize that we get caught up in feeling like a separate self and an unworthy self.
self years roots
Fear of being a flawed person lay at the root of my trance, and I had sacrificed many moments over the years in trying to prove my worth. Like the tiger Mohini, I inhabited a self-made prison that stopped me from living fully.
self inward turns
Turn thy gaze inward, wherein resides the Supreme Self. Swami Vivekananda
selfish generosity moral
That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.
self done influence
Our best work is done, our greatest influence is exerted, when we are without thought of self.
selfish thrones world
Unselfishness is God. One may live on a throne, in a golden palace, and be perfectly unselfish; and then he is in God. Another may live in a hut and wear rags, and have nothing in the world; yet, if he is selfish, he is intensely merged in the world.
self serenity desire
Plunge into the world, and then, after a time, when you have suffered and enjoyed all that is in it, will renunciation come; then will calmness come. So fulfill your desire for power and everything else, and after you have fulfilled the desire, will come the time when you will know that they are all very little things; but until you have fulfilled this desire, until you have passed through that activity, it is impossible for you to come to the state of calmness, serenity, and self-surrender.
self joy fulfillment
Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living. Sophia Loren
self-improvement succeed failing
If you are going to succeed, you must deal with what caused you to fail Tony Robbins
self-improvement way improvement
See things the way they are not worse than they are
self-improvement way doe
If you add the value, you will become the brand. Find a way to add more value than anyone else does
self-esteem believe important
A life of fulfillment is one in which we put urgency in its place and remember that the ultimate target is to spend our lives doing the things we believe are most important to us.
self discipline acting
Acting requires a lot of discipline to go with the obsession. It's a path of knowledge, and of self-knowledge. Sometimes you get lost on the path. And then you find yourself again. Toni Servillo
selfish responsibility today
The only society that works today is also one founded on mutual respect, on a recognition that we have a responsibility collectively and individually, to help each other on the basis of each other's equal worth. A selfish society is a contradiction in terms. Tony Blair
self want path
I don't want to point out her flaws, but if I see her going on a self-destructive path, isn't it up to me as her friend to stop her? Simone Elkeles
selfish world want
I feel so selfish, because I want the best of both worlds. I want to keep the image I've worked so hard to create.
self stories consciousness
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself. Simone de Beauvoir
self-esteem bad-day body-weight
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
self two would-be
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms. For each of them, love would be the revelation of the self through the gift of the self and the enrichment of the universe.
selfish work loneliness
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.
self iron hatred
Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of guilt that crime logically should produce but actually does not. Simone Weil
self-confidence people doubt
How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?