Quotes about self
self mind beloved
Free will is "corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds" John Owen
self earth centre
And the earth self-balanced on her centre hung. John Milton
self despair trouble
The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling. Norman Cousins
self-esteem today sake
You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.
selfish men greedy
The abortionist I worked for, he's a very greedy man, a selfish man. Norma McCorvey
self aggravation people
Do some selfless service for people who are in need. Consider the whole picture, not just our little selves. Nina Hagen
self fire people
I had a moment when I first got on Supernatural when I was like, “Oh my god, people are paying attention to me, I have fans, maybe I should cultivate an image and try to seem really cool.” I had this moment of being commercially self conscious and it took maybe a month for me to realize no, this is not who I ****ing am, and here's a picture of me in drag. Which is, by the way, so much more liberating and relaxing. There's not a more sure fire way to give a stifled, boring, empty, vapid, meaningless interview than trying to say the right thing... Misha Collins
self people world
You can't be everybody's friend, you can't save the world, I learned this word: self-preservation. Once you do that, you can be friends with people, but how would you be a friend to anybody if you're not a friend to yourself. Mike Tyson
self-esteem enemy literature
Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within. Miguel de Cervantes
self mind willingness-to-change
True forgiveness is a willingness to change your mind about your Self. Robert Holden
self-esteem acceptance self-improvement
No amount of self-improvement can make up for any lack of self-acceptance.
self conditions
Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition. Robert Henri
self-esteem people risk
People with high self esteem are risk takers, but more importantly, they are achievers. Rick Pitino
selfish helpful be-careful
Gods tend to be selfish. Even when they're helpful, they always have their own motives. That's why you have to be careful about trusting them. Rick Riordan
self-esteem hero long
Juno: "The heroes of olympus must unite! After your victory over kronos in manhattan...well I fear that wounded jupiter's self-esteem." Percy: Cause I was right and he was wrong" Juno: "He should be used to that after being married to me so long, but alas.
self ego favors
This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self. Edward de Bono
selfish selfless sometimes
Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless. Edward Albert
self doubt talent
Self-doubt kills talent. Edie McClurg
self who-i-am levels
On the deepest level, what I know for sure is that who I am, essentially, is consciousness and consciousness is timeless and it transcends the body; it transcends the psychological "me," the egoic self. Everybody can know themselves as consciousness. Eckhart Tolle
self rights people
I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as a self-governing people to hear everything relevant. John F. Kennedy
self justice presidential
Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups. They have raised wages, shortened hours, and provided supplemental benefits. Through collective bargaining and grievance procedures, they have brought justice and democracy to the shop floor.
self manhattan brooklyn
Apparently Brooklyn needn't always push itself to be something else, something conscious and anxious, something pointed toward Manhattan.... Brooklyn might sometimes also be pleased, as here on Flatbush, to be its grubby, enduring self. Jonathan Lethem
self self-pity pity
But the day I can't shrug off a twinge of self-pity, is the day I'm washed up for keeps.
self emotion transcendence
Awe is the emotion of self-transcendence. Jonathan Haidt
selfish party thinking
Liberals have difficulty understanding the Tea Party because they think it is a bunch of selfish racists. But I think the Tea Party is driven in large part by concerns about fairness.
self greek soul
Here was a torture that Greek inventors of the Feast and the Stone had omitted from their Hades: the Blanket of Self-Deception. A lovely warm blanket as far as it covered the soul in torment, but it never quite covered everything. Jonathan Franzen
self different kind
So, what, you got cigarette burns, too?" Gitanes said. Chip showed his palm, "It's nothing." "Self-inflicted. You pathetic American." "Different kind of prison" Chip said.
self people ends
It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.
selfishness naked world
If you seek in the spirit of selfishness, to grasp all as your own, you shall lose all, and be driven out of the world, at last, naked and forlorn, to everlasting poverty and contempt. Jonathan Edwards
self decree should
Whether God has decreed all things that ever come to pass or not, all that own the being of a God, own that He knows all things beforehand. Now, it is self-evident that if He knows all things beforehand, He either doth approve of them or doth not approve of them; that is, He either is willing they should be, or He is not willing they should be. But to will that they should be is to decree them.
self examination action
Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action
self hatred self-hatred
I promote my own self-hatred. Jonathan Ames
self people perception
I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.