Quotes about self
self america people
The people in Miami are so different from anywhere else I've been in America. They're so down to earth, really friendly, and quite self-effacing, with a good sense of humor. I'm not saying other parts of America don't have a sense of humor, but Miami maybe has to have a really good sense of humor for lots of different reasons, and it works. It works for me. Tracey Emin
self labels want
The labels are not getting the returns they want from their PR. Plus, for every Taylor Swift there are a hundred thousand nobodies out there who are probably making better music. Self-releasing is the only way to go. Tony Visconti
selfish philosophy black
What selfish seeds I plant along the way, black harvest today. Steve Winwood
self serving self-serving
Inquisitiveness is self-serving, Johanna. -Marcus Eaton Veronica Roth
selfish love-you sacrifice
About when to let others sacrifice themselves for you, even if its selfish. They say that if the sacrifice is the ultimate way for that person to show you that they love you, let them do it.
selfish staples
A lot of music comes from a selfish place… Vince Staples
self fans not-afraid
I've always been a fan of a Johnny Carson because he was so great with an audience and not afraid of self-deprecating humor. Vince Vaughn
self space despair
The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To dig deeper into the self, to go underground, is sometimes necessary, but so is the other route of getting out of yourself, into the larger world, into the openness in which you need not clutch your story and your troubles so tightly to your chest. Rebecca Solnit
self
Say yes to your self. Say no to your anti-self. Robert G. Allen
self way should
Above all things, one should maintain his self-respect, and there is but one way to do that, and that is to live in accordance with your highest ideal. Robert Green Ingersoll
self-harm ears way
Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm. Rudyard Kipling
self smell comic
From so much of this seriously-intended pornography there rises, even when it is lewdly or boisterously comic, the acrid smell, unmistakable, of self-dislike. Storm Jameson
self people liberty
Life in the [London] suburb is richer at the lower levels. At these levels the people are not self-conscious at all, they are at liberty to be as eccentric as they please, they do not know that they are eccentric. Stevie Smith
self people negative
The combination of rumination and negative mood is toxic. Research shows that people who ruminate while sad or distraught are likely to feel besieged, powerless, self-critical, pessimistic, and generally negatively biased. Sonja Lyubomirsky
selfish school player
It's not uncommon in the entertainment world for agents to sign young talent. It's sinful that these players can't be represented by lawyers and agents when they're in school. If a player wants to hire someone to seek his value - in any other walk of life, except where this farcical entity that is the NCAA is involved - having a lawyer or agent isn't illegal. It's just the NCAA imposing its own set of rules. It's selfish on their part. Sonny Vaccaro
self order perfect
So often we wait for the climate and conditions in life to be perfect before we feel safe enough to step forward, trust, and be our authentic selves. What we don't realize is that in order to create the ideal climate we are waiting for, we must be authentic first. Sonia Choquette
self framework transcendence
Within alpinism's narrow framework we seek transcendence and relentlessly pursue what remains hidden from us on flat ground: our true selves. Steve House
self-confidence levels environment
It gave a tremendous level of self-confidence, that through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex things in one's environment. Steve Jobs
self wicked excuse
Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow. Stephen Schwartz
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
self expression people
I like people who are as unlike me as possible, which is not an expression of self disgust or self hatred, but it's just that you know you obviously particularly admire things that you recognize yourself as not having.
self people who-you-are
You are who you are when nobody's watching.
self perfection saint
Perfection consists in one thing alone, which is doing the will of God. For, according to Our Lord's words, it suffices for perfection to deny self, to take up the cross and to follow Him. Now who denies himself and takes up his cross and follows Christ better than he who seeks not to do his own will, but always that of God? Behold, now, how little is needed to become as Saint? Nothing more than to acquire the habit of willing, on every occasion, what God wills. St. Vincent
self indulge-in tools
However great the work that God may achieve by an individual, he must not indulge in self-satisfaction. He ought rather to be all the more humbled, seeing himself merely as a tool which God has made use of.
self-esteem esteem
Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most. St. Jerome
self realisation seekers
Some seekers will do anything for their Self-realisation - except work for it. Sri Chinmoy
self goal transcendence
Our goal is self-transcendence
self inspire humanity
Individual self-transcendence collectively inspires humanity at large.
self giving cry
What gives life its value if not its constant cry for self-transcendence?
self speech flawless
To be free from all egoistic motive, careful of truth in speech and action, void of self-will and self-assertion, watchful in all things, is the condition for being a flawless servant. Sri Aurobindo
self mindfulness would-be
But what after all, behind appearance, is the seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself, returning to itself, emerging out of its giant self-forgetfulness, slowly, painfully, as a life that is would-be sentient, to be more than sentient, to be again divinely self-conscious, free, infinite, immortal.
self mind body
The supramental transformation, the supramental evolution must carry with it a lifting of mind, life and body out of themselves into a greater way of being in which yet their own ways and powers would be, not suppressed or abolished, but perfected and fulfilled by the self-exceeding.
self infinite highest
Either consciously or unconsciously we are searching for the highest Self, which is at once eternal and infinite.