Quotes about self
self glimpse world
Celebration... is self restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of the wonder - the wonder that a world is worlding around us at all, that there are beings rather than nothing, that things are and we ourselves are in their midst, that we ourselves are and yet barely know who we are, and barely know that we do not know all this. Martin Heidegger
self law punishment
...your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments; hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born... Marquis de Sade
self want today
Audiences don't want to see the kind of self-indulgent, boring dance that is so prevalent today. Mark Morris
self law america
America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage. Mark McKinnon
self two anxiety
Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility or relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety turns one back on oneself, but only onto the self that is already known. Mark Epstein
self land feelings
In building a path through the self to the far shore of awareness, we have to carefully pick our way through our own wilderness. If we can put our minds into a place of surrender, we will have an easier time feeling the contours of the land. We do not have to break our way through as much as we have to find our way around the major obstacles. We do not have to cure every neurosis, we just have to learn how not to be caught by them.
self burden-of-proof soul
The great soul of power extends far beyond states, to every domain of life, from families to international affairs. And throughout, every form of authority and domination bears a severe burden of proof. It is not self-legitimizing. And when it cannot bear the burden, as is commonly the case, it should be dismantled. Noam Chomsky
selfish believe want
If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I'm definitely ruthless and selfish. Nicole Scherzinger
self lasts firsts
Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic. Nick Hornby
self numbers people
Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality. Mary Matalin
self analysis constant
I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis. Mary MacLane
self restraint self-restraint
I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.
self self-conscious conscious
I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious. Mary-Louise Parker
self-esteem communication character
Some think the only way to get even, to get attention or advantage, or to win is to bash people. This kind of behavior is never appropriate. Oftentimes character and reputation and almost always self-esteem are destroyed under the hammer of this vicious practice. Marvin J. Ashton
self practice goal
If you have self-respect, you will take satisfaction in being well groomed and will not allow yourself to perform shabbily. You will continue to work toward high standards and goals to serve others, to continue and to practice self-discipline. You will not compromise your standards or beliefs.
self-esteem criticism bruised
Often our self-esteem is bruised by criticism.
self-esteem helping should
We should teach, particularly ourselves, that nobody is a nobody. We are someone, and with God's help we can accomplish all things.
selfish inspiration
All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish Mark Twain
self order organization
Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization and order can only come from centralism. Nicholas Negroponte
self years world
By the year 2020 the largest employer in the developed world will be the self.
self sunglasses satisfaction
As Confucius once said, 'He who does nothing is the one who does nothing.'" Gabby pondered the words, the furrowed her brow. "did Confucius really say that?" Sunglasses in place, Stephanie managed the tiniest of shrugs. "No, but who cared? The point is, they handled, and most likely they found some sort of self-satisfaction in their industrious-ness. Who am I to deprive them of that? Nicholas Sparks
selfish mean reality
he'd once believed that the answer lay somehow in the music he created, he suspected now that He'd been mistaken. The more he thought about it, the more he'd come to realize that for him, music had always been a movement away from reality rather than a means of living in it more deeply. .. he now knew that burying himself in music had less to do with God than a selfish desire to escape.
selfish jealous conceited
Love is patient and kind.It's never jealous.Love is never boastful or conceited.It is never rude or selfish.It does not take offence and is not resentful
self giving my-best-friend
Because you aren't just someone I loved back then. You were my best friend, my best self, and I can't imagine giving that up again." He hesitated searching for the right words. "You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.
selfishness salvation saved
To be saved is only this-salvation from our own selfishness. John Greenleaf Whittier
self way imagine
It's almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person I was or the whatever I am now. John Green
self diagnosis
I am concussed," I announced, entirely sure of my self-diagnosis.
self loathing monsters
Beware of that monster called 'self-loathing'.
self self-destructive self-destructive-behavior
There's nothing cool about being self-destructive. Patti Smith
self world rooms
When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world.
selfish thinking sometimes
I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records. Pat Summitt
self employed
See yourself as self employed.
self improvement havens
Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven't been before.