Quotes about self
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.
self process reflecting
The Gaian process is more than a process. It is s self-reflecting entelechy of some sort.
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.
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?
selfish easy
Selfish is easy. It's sharing that takes courage. Simon Sinek
selfish opposites firsts
Putting yourself first is not selfish. Quite the opposite. You must put your happiness and health first before you can be of help to anyone else.
self leader care
The true price of leadership is the willingness to place the needs of others above your own. Great leaders truly care about those they are privileged to lead and understand that the true cost of the leadership privilege comes at the expense of self-interest.
self cost interest
The cost of leadership is self-interest.
self knowing generations
Now there's a whole generation of filmmakers who grew up making their own films with video cameras, and have dined entirely on a diet of popular culture. It's been reflected in a lot of their work. It's self-reflective, it's quite knowing, but it's very literate. Simon Pegg
self looks might
Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don't need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism. Simon Mainwaring
self law democracies-have
Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good.
self inappropriate planets
If there is such a person on the planet, then he or she-this self-appointed arbiter of “appropriateness”-deserves to be confronted with as many “inappropriate” transgressions as possible. Simon Doonan
self dust storm
I headed towards the mountain, which was an almost irresistible beacon to my storm self. It glowed with heat, pressure, and turbulence—everything a little dust devil like me could want. Rick Riordan
selfish believe tears
Chaos is impatient. It's random. And above all it's selfish. It tears down everything just for the sake of change, feeding on itself in constant hunger. But Chaos can also be appealing. It tempts you to believe that nothing matters except what you want.
self echoes ironic
Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a sort of cackling aftermath. Renata Adler
self hatred manhattan
Manhattan has generated a shameless architecture that has been loved in direct proportion to its defiant lack of self-hatred, hasbeen respected exactly to the degree that it went too far. Rem Koolhaas
self-improvement improvement screws
Screw it, let's do it - Just get on with it and do it Richard Branson
self-improvement improvement being-the-best
Be the best at what you do
self-improvement talent improvement
Talent comes from experience and failure
selfish men he-man
The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish. Swami Vivekananda
self ego doe
One possessing Vairagya does not understand by Atman the individual ego but the All-pervading Lord, residing as the Self and Internal Ruler in all. He is perceivable by all as the sum total.
selfishness coward causes
Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.
self done worship
God is self-evident, impersonal, omniscient, the Knower and the Master of nature, the Lord of all. He is behind all worship and it is being done according to Him, whether we know it or not.
self parent belief
Self-belief? My parents gave it to me. Tippi Hedren
self watches vices
Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick? Stephen Fry