Quotes about self
self brain attention
Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one process outshouts the others, the brain rationalizes the outcome after the fact and concocts the impression that a single self was in charge all along. Steven Pinker
self people political
If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to be a waste of time.
self hatred noble
Commerce is a noble profession, and Jews should get over any self-hatred they might harbor from contemplating the capitalist spirit of diaspora Judaism.
selfish player blue
Just as blueprints don't necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don't necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most selfish thing a gene can do is build a selfless brain. Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players.
self blood voice
There is a knowingness that is as much a part of us as flesh and blood and bones. It's intuition, the deepest natural knowing. ... Intuition is the voice within forever pressing us to stretch ourselves, to take risks, to keep loving and giving birth to a new self, regardless of circumstances. Susan L. Taylor
self forever honor
We are forever looking outside ourselves, seeking approval and striving to impress others. But living to please others is a poor substitute for self-love, for no matter how family and friends may adore us, they can never satisfy our visceral need to love and honor ourselves.
self miracle intuition
By learning to trust your intuition, miracles seem to happen. Intuitive thoughts are gifts from the higher self. Susan Jeffers
self-love our-love source
The source of our love comes from within. No one out there is that source. It makes sense to go to the source.
self-esteem heart self-confidence
As we open our hearts to others, we begin to discover the truth of our own inner beauty, inner strength and inner light.
self facts abundance
When you operate from the Higher Self, you feel centered and abundant?in fact, overflowing. When you experience this abundance, your fears automatically disappear.
self world behavior
When you put loving thoughts and behavior into the world, you plant seeds of self-respect. When you put unloving thoughts and behavior into the world, you destroy seeds of self-respect.
self-esteem matter way
Every time you encounter something that forces you to “handle it,” your self-esteem is raised considerably. You learn to trust that you will survive, no matter what happens. And in this way your fears are diminished immeasurably.
self-esteem self-confidence matter
No matter what response you get from anyone you meet, You are a worthwhile person.
self abandoned patriarchy
When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self. Sue Monk Kidd
self self-love speak
Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always.
self divinity depth
The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.
self vanity feelings
My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though. Richard Griffiths
self personality desire
You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well. Samuel Alexander
self long desire
Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
self-esteem mystery ultimate
The ultimate mystery is one's own self. Sammy Davis, Jr.
self crucible mastery
Only in the crucible of self-mastery can freedom be smelted Tariq Ramadan
self-confidence insecurity body
National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.
self process reconciliation
The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
self hands enemy
[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry. Ta-Nehisi Coates
self community ironic
Humans also tend to find community to be pleasurable, and within the boundaries of community relationships, words - often ironic and self-deprecating - are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others.
self-confidence opportunity names
Nobody ever died of discomfort, yet living in the name of comfort has killed more ideas, more opportunities, more actions, and more growth than everything else combined. Comfort kills! T. Harv Eker
self-esteem home school
There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them. T. D. Jakes
self mind rooms
There is no room for God in a mind that's full of self.
self errors judging
What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us? T. S. Eliot
self may patterns
History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.
self order camouflage
How much of my true self I camouflage and choke in order to commend myself to him, denying the fullness of me. How often have I paraded sweetness and interest when I felt otherwise; pretended to take careful leave of him on many an occasion when I would rather have walked right out. How I've toned myself down, diluted myself to maintain his approval. Sylvia Ashton-Warner
self discipline talent
Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure. Sydney J. Harris
selfish giving not-selfish
It's not selfish to give TO yourself as much as you give OF yourself Suze Orman