Quotes about self
selfish tired thinking
Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I'm tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should. Anne Frank
self people stories
You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story. Ann Beattie
selfish mean leaving
Right now, I wish I’d stayed because I want you at my side. That sounds pretty selfish, but I don’t mean it that way. You just never needed me that way; I said it to you once as I was leaving—that you love me, but you don’t need me. You don’t lean. But I admire that about you, and I could use some of your strength right now. Ann Aguirre
self-confidence government roots
We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it. Anita Roddick
self views joy
I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or fame, its about finding a livelihood that brings me joy and self-sufficiency and a sense of contributing to the world.
self morality manners
I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are. Andrew Young
self mind infinite
All other things have a portion of everything, but Mind is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with nothing but is all alone by itself. Anaxagoras
self world comfort
I suppose it’s comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict. Chuck Palahniuk
self self-improvement improvement
Self improvement is masturbation...
self diaries portraits
Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary.
self hands giving
your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand. everything is a self portrait. everything is a diary.
self community church
You could go church and you could describe your worst behavior, your worst self, and despite your worst behavior you would be forgiven and then redeemed and then accepted back into the community through communion. So you didn't have to carry this burden your entire life. Once a week you went someplace you went someplace where you could really look terrible and be loved despite how terrible you were.
self opposites people
The problem a lot of writers have is that they really, really enjoy people saying, "You're brilliant." They let their self-perception be dictated by reader response. But if you're going to let other people make you feel good, you're going to end up feeling bad when they say the opposite. You've got to be a cultural stoic. Then you won't be devastated by people who respond negatively. Of course, the downside is that it sort of stops you from being able to enjoy people liking your work. Chuck Klosterman
self-confidence fake lost
You must have an alibi to show why you lost. If you haven't one, you must fake one. You self confidence must be maintained. Christy Mathewson
self names world
The name, his true name, was weaker and more flawed than he would have liked, and he hated himself for that, but there was also much to admire within it, and the more he thought about it, the more he was able to accept the true nature of his self. He was not the best person in the world, but neither was he the worst. Christopher Paolini
self limits hell
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be. Christopher Marlowe
self world bunch
Most of us don't live our lives with one, integrated self that meets the world, we're a whole bunch of selves. Christopher Moore
selfishness slippery-slope firsts
Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos.
self should form
Haiku is a particularly Zen form of poetry; for Zen detests egoism in the form of calculated effects or self-glorification of any sort. The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present. Anne Bancroft
self-esteem struggle thinking
Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it's unbelievable! Angelina Jolie
self-harm cutting shopping
Some people go shopping - I cut myself.
self becoming danger
If you become aware of a public self, you're in danger of becoming a very artificial person.
self fearless consciousness
What would it be like to communicate from a part of your own self that is absolutely free from self-consciousness, that is fearless, uncorrupted, and passionately interested in the truth?. Andrew Cohen
self world places-to-go
When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain.
self differences creative
The authentic self is the best part of a human being. It's the part of you that already cares, that is already passionate about evolution. When your authentic self miraculously awakens and becomes stronger than your ego, then you will truly begin to make a difference in this world. You will literally enter into a partnership with the creative principle.
self talking brain
The weirdest time is when I'm having to explain myself all day to journalists, and then I don't perform, so there's no release, just a lot of self-consciousness. Then what do you do with that at the end of the day? How do you release your brain from talking about yourself all day? Andrew Bird
self honor wounds
All honor's wounds are self-inflicted. Andrew Carnegie
self trying natural
It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead.
selfish cutting giving
Conservatives need to figure out a way to motivate by reason and persuade through emotion. Meaning that when they talk about our issues, it can't come from a selfish place - "Give me a tax cut. Where's my tax cut." We have to get back to that "shining city on the hill." Andrea Tantaros
self people connections
Boundaries are the lines we draw that mark off our autonomy and that of other people, that protect our privacy and that of others. Boundaries allow for intimate connection without dissolving or losing one's sense of self. Amy Bloom
self mind modesty
Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. Amos Bronson Alcott
self america improvement
America is a new kind of society that produces a new kind of human being. That human being—confident, self-reliant, tolerant, generous, future-oriented—is a vast improvement over the wretched, servile, fatalistic and intolerant human being that traditional societies have always produced. Dinesh D'Souza
selfish human-nature critics
Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.