Quotes about self
self ego able
The ego will always be able to find ways to keep the aspirant busy in self-improvement, thus binding him or her to the fact that the self is still there behind all the improvements. For why should the ego kill itself? Paul Brunton
self people honor
Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor. Oscar Wilde
self harmony be-good
To be good is to be in harmony with one's self.
self ruined poetry-is
To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour
selfish men thinking
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind from him.
self giving feelings
Fame can be very disruptive. It can be like a drug. It gives you the feeling that you're happy, it gives you the feeling of self-importance, it gives you the feeling of fullfilment; but it can distract you from what is really important. Madonna Ciccone
self-esteem school awkward
I felt very awkward and out of place in school. Not popular, not attractive, not special in any way and I was longing for love and approval from someone.
self years judging
After years and years of everybody commenting on the way I look and dress and being photographed, one starts to become self-conscious and starts to plan things more. You end up judging yourself more, what looks good and what doesn't.
self people empowering
To me, the most important thing - aside from meeting people's physical needs, whether that's education, health care, clothing, food, a roof over their heads - is changing the mind-set and educating people. And most of all, most important, is empowering people and making them self-sustaining.
self-worth body individual
Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyones individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth. Ma Jian
selfish animal ambitious
If the impure and the unjust, the drunkard and the licentious, are loathsome to us, what must be the infinite loathing of an infinitely pure Spirit for those who are worldly and selfish, licentious and cruel, ambitious and animal! But with this great loathing is a great pity. And the pity conquers the loathing, appeases it, satisfies it, is reconciled with it, only as it redeems the sinner from his loathsomeness, lifts him up from his degradation, brings him to truth and purity, to love and righteousness; for only thus is he or can he be brought to God. Lyman Abbott
self law joy
The laws of our being are such that we must perform some degree of use in the world, whether we intend it, or not; but we can deprive ourselves of its indwelling joy, by acting entirely from the love of self. Lydia M. Child
selfish failure people
All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good very inadequate to their aspirations. They do so much less than they want to do, and so much less than they, at the outset, expected to do, that their lives, viewed retrospectively, inevitably look like failure.
self psychology literature
I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this refusal is called romanticism; in psychology, neurosis. Luke Rhinehart
self body void
All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they're set, and where they're moved around. Lucretius
self-esteem thinking narcissistic
I don't think I am narcissistic. I think I have low self-esteem. Lorraine Bracco
self soul earth
Only when all images of Earth are hushed and the clamor of the senses be stilled, and the soul has passed beyond thought of self, can the eternal wisdom be revealed to the mystic who seeks that highest communion with the unseen. Margaret Smith
self doubt secret
It is often easier to justify one's self to others than to respond to the secret doubts that arise in one's own bosom. Margaret Oliphant
self dancing doe
You can bring out your inner self and moods through dancing. Music does the same. Michael Jackson
self mind traffic
The peace you seek is there, it's there between all the traffic in your mind, stop and rest for peace will find you if you let it. Michael Dolan
self differences asking-questions
Increasingly, people perceive no difference between the narcissistic self-serving reporters asking questions, and the narcissistic self-serving politicians who evade them. Michael Crichton
self three may
We are one of only three species on our planet that can claim to be self-aware, yet self-delusion may be a more significant characteristic of our kind.
self people trying
Sometimes people ask what it was like when I got to meet Mick Jagger, and I must admit that you just try and chill out and be your best self around anyone that you meet. Meshell Ndegeocello
self-esteem kids self
I was a kid who didn't have a lot of self-esteem. Melanie Lynskey
self-esteem men average
It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth. Mark Twain
self-esteem facts difficult
The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.
self self-respect compliment
An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.
self media america
Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your HONOR. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.
self worry long
Worry lives a long way from rational thought."---Self Mary Roach
self order support
I complacently accepted the social order in which I was brought up. I probably would have continued in my complacency if the happynecessity of self-support had not fallen to my lot; if self-support had not deepened and widened my contacts and my experience.
selfish passion men
Man liveth from hour to hour, and knoweth not what may happen; Influences circle him on all sides, and yet must he answer for his actions: For the being that is master of himself, bendeth events to his will, But a slave to selfish passions is the wavering creature of circumstance. Martin Farquhar Tupper
self frost bud
As frost to the bud, and blight to the blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship; for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness is porter at the gate.
self world earth
The world, in resting upon the earth, strives to surmount it. As self-opening it cannot endure anything closed. The earth, however, as sheltering and concealing, tends always to draw the world into itself and keep it there Martin Heidegger