Quotes about self
self who-i-am definitions
My fullest concentration of energy is available to me only when I integrate all the parts of who I am, openly, allowing power from particular sources of my living to flow back and forth freely through all my different selves, without the restriction of externally imposed definition. Audre Lorde
self world bihar
We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest. Atal Bihari Vajpayee
self defense dangerous
But Nightshirts aren't dangerous," Pippi assured her. "They don't bite anybody except in self defense. Astrid Lindgren
selfish creativity facts
Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact. Athol Fugard
selfish humanity desire
Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good. Arthur Peacocke
self-esteem compassion achievement
Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed by compassion and love, not by greed and aggressiveness. Arnold J. Toynbee
self personality excellence
The more we sympathize with excellence, the more we go out of self, the more we love, the broader and deeper is our personality. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
selfish sensual honor
Honor to the idealists, whether philosophers or poets. They have improved us by mingling with our daily pursuits great and transcendent conceptions. They have thrown around our sensual life the grandeur of a better, and drawn us up from contacts with the temporal and the selfish to communion with beauty and truth and goodness.
self world martyr
There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing.
self christ-on-the-cross gods-plan
All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them. Edward McKendree Bounds
self mind speak
I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind Ednita Nazario
self cells people
All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches of other people. Edna O'Brien
self-confidence people arrogance
People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus. Edna Ferber
self race our-actions
We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race. Edna St. Vincent Millay
self people
What is best for people is what they do for themselves. Benjamin Franklin
self enemy ifs
If you wou'd be reveng'd of your enemy, govern your self
self independence mind
"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an assertion of rationality. The scientific mind of Franklin drew on the scientific determinism of Isaac Newton and the analytic empiricism of David Hume and Gottfried Leibniz. In what became known as "Hume's Fork" the latters' theory distinguished between synthetic truths that describe matters of fact, and analytic truths that are self-evident by virtue of reason and definition.
self individuality disguise
Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.
self-love
He who will not be counseled cannot be helped.
self numbers church
Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels. Barbara Tuchman
self-esteem self given
I wasn't supported, I wasn't given any self-esteem. Barbra Streisand
self world rupture
I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World. Ayad Akhtar
self going-for-it cost
There was a much more self-destructive nature in 'Appetite.' It was a going-for-it-at-all-cost thing that worked then. Axl Rose
self enemy appease
The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
self creative mystery
It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over. Arthur Erickson
selfish wife association
The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone. Arthur Conan Doyle
self selfishness annihilation
Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self. Anton Chekhov
self-esteem heart self-love
The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem. bell hooks
self-esteem thinking people
I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
self-esteem integrity people
People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.
self how-to-love environment
Whether we learn how to love ourselves and others will depend on the presence of a loving environment. Self-love cannot flourish in isolation.
self-esteem reality healthy
The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies. Living consciously is living with a core of healthy self-esteem. You will face reality, you will not delude yourself.
self female searching-for-love
The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.