Quotes about self
selfish love-is ideas
Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself. Aleister Crowley
self-confidence men numbers
As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it. Collect scholars on a club committee, or men of science on a jury; all their virtues vanish, and their vices pop out, reinforced by the self-confidence which the power of numbers is bound to bestow.
self perfection path
What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute of all Truth, Beauty, Purity, Perfection!
self care grooming
If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self. Albert Einstein
self worry understanding
To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.
selfish feelings religion
... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the fetters of his selfish desires and is preoccupied with thoughts, feelings, and aspirations to which he clings because of their superpersonal value.
self hunted self-respect
Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. Alfred Whitney Griswold
self-esteem mean feelings
Everyone is walking around with these self doubts, so there's something reassuring about that. And self-doubt in one or a few areas doesn't mean that you have generally low self-esteem. And you have the power to get yourself out of feeling that way. Amy Cuddy
self play feelings
The whole body-mind thing comes into play, when you are feeling that self-doubt and your body is not going to help you if you're not paying attention. Your body's going to go with the self-doubt and make you feel worse, so by making the adjustments - pulling your shoulders back, standing up straight, walking in a more sort of expansive way - all sorts of little things will help pull you out of that self-doubt.
selfish responsibility thinking
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities. Ann Richards
self-confidence self weakness
Our greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence. Angela Ahrendts
self different ready
I'm ready to take on different selves and experiment and see what happens. Angel Olsen
self yes-and-no debate
The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self. Anatole Broyard
self voice boredom
I sat there for three hours and did not feel the time or the boredom of our talk and its foolish disconnection. As long as I could hear his voice, I was quite lost, quite blind, quite outside my own self. Anais Nin
self culture tasks
We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions. It is an enormous task because the history of women has been as incompletely told as the history of blacks.
self cities needs
One always, sooner or later, comes upon a city which is an image of one's inner cities. Fez is an image of my inner self. ... The layers of the city of Fez are like the layers and secrecies of the inner life. One needs a guide. ... There were in Fez, as in my life, streets which led nowhere, impasses which remained a mystery.
self should
No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
self suffering causes
Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.
self indulge-in imagination
People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with an almost self-protective obstinacy, or by a natural limitation of their imaginations. They do not indulge in either deepening or magnifying.
self self-destruction destruction
destruction is ultimately self-destruction.
self world monsters
Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.
self needs hunger
Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise.
self balance association
Balance is not to be sought by association with others; it must exist within one's self.
self world lenses
The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world ...
self two curiosity
There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.
self-esteem love-yourself eye
She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
self poverty dare
Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty. Anne Carson
self effort desire
The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
self answers poverty
When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
self lovely doubt
Thank you for this lovely blunt object that I will forevermore use as a weapon against self-doubt. Anne Hathaway
self long comfort
Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again. Anne Frank
selfish stupid tired
They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc.
self doors use
but i've slammed the door to my inner self; if he ever wants to force the lock again, he'll have to use a harder crowbar!