Quotes about self
self survival enemy
Everything is interconnected. My interest is linked to everyone else's. Our survival and future are linked. Therefore the destruction of your so-called enemy is actually the destruction of your self. Dalai Lama
self-confidence concern-for-others giving
Cultivating care and concern for others gives rise to a kind of inner strength. No matter what difficulties or problems you face, in this wider context they’ll seem less significant and troubling to you. The inner strength, self-confidence and courage you gain by focussing on others’ needs instead of your own, brings with it a deep, calm sense of satisfaction.
self-esteem ocean quality
Limitless like the ocean are your excellent qualities.
selfishness today serious
Along with selfishness, anger is one of the most serious problems facing the world today
self ignorant scoundrels
Dave Rudabaugh is an ignorant scoundrel! I disapprove of his very existence. I considered ending it myself on several occasions but self-control got the better of me. Doc Holliday
self age use
It is curious how an age of public self-revelation, and of the use of psychological jargon, should also be an age when self-examination is rarely practised. Anthony Daniels
selfish live-your-life demand
Live your life as you see fit. That's not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit. Anthony de Mello
self interest self-interest
Ordinarily, everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything.
self ideas challenges
The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas. If you're ready to listen and if you're ready to be challenged, there's one thing that you can do, but no one can help you. What is this most important thing of all? It's called self-observation.
selfish book butterfly
A writer arrived at the monastery to write a book about the Master. "People say you are a genius . Are you?" he asked. "You might say so." said the Master, none too modestly. "And what makes one a genius?" "The ability to recognize." "Recognize what?" "The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.
self silence sound
Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.
selfish butterfly eagles
The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.
self helping mindset
You have a deeper, wiser, loving self that you can always ask for help. Annette Funicello
self-esteem kids rejection
Rejection is a big part of show business. It can be tough on anyone who doesn't have fairly good self-esteem. Especially kids, as they try to discover who they are. Angela Cartwright
self-esteem father parent
I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had won the prize for best all-around student. Afterwards my father said to me, 'Never, ever disgrace me like that again.' When I tell my Western friends, they are aghast. But I adore my father. It didn't knock my self-esteem at all. Amy Chua
self-improvement improvement should
I don't despise, because no-one should live rent-free inside your head. Anne Robinson
self years age
We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our 5-year-old selves became our 10-year-old selves, and so on and on; and if we unpack our selves, the full album appears. Every moment is a part of the following moment, and we are all a continuum. Anne Roiphe
self loathing doe
Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ? Anne Rice
selfish heaven soul
Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven.
self long doubt
And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.
self acting technique
A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented. Anna Deavere Smith
selfish mirrors doe
My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
self my-family conscious
When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process. Anita Desai
self childhood return
Do you know anyone who would - secretly, sincerely, in his innermost self - really prefer to return to childhood?
selfish reason selfish-reasons
It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons. Anita Brookner
selfish ideas decision
You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.
self-esteem believe dark
People who believe that they are going to be excommunicated and shamed, or whatever other dark things may happen to them, are much less likely to enter open, loving relationships. And they are also much less likely to have the self-esteem that is required to be monogamous and loving. And in consequence, they are much less likely to create families. Andrew Solomon
self-esteem hell force
The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell. Andre Malraux
self-esteem men office
What men call friendship is only social intercourse, an exchange of favours and good offices; it comes down to a commercial dealing in which self-esteem always expects to profit. Andre Maurois
self self-pity pity
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
self-esteem appreciate insolence
We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
selfish men religion
One of the worst things sin did for man was to make him selfish, for selfishness cannot love. Andy Murray
self deliverance sin
Not to be occupied with your sin, but to be occupied with God brings deliverance from self.