Quotes about self
self-love debauchery lovers
True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person. Albert Camus
self despair disease
God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.
self order people
For instance, I never complained that my birthday was overlooked; people were even surprised, with a touch of admiration, by my discretion on this subject. But the reason for my disinterestedness was even more discreet: I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself... Once my solitude was thoroughly proved, I could surrender to the charms of a virile self-pity.
selfish love-is vanity
The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.
selfish passion comfort
A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.
selfishness continuity day-to-day
I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me.
self-worth men greek
Analysis of rebellion leads at least to the suspicion that, contrary to the postulates of contemporary thought, a human nature does exist, as the Greeks believed. Why rebel if there is nothing permanent in oneself worth preserving? ... Rebellion, though apparently negative, since it creates nothing, is profoundly positive in that it reveals the part of man which must always be defended.
self water trying
For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers.
self giving solitude
Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.
selfish men socialism
Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish. Annie Besant
self ugly obsessed
You become really ugly when you become very superficial and self-obsessed. Annie Lennox
self doe world
The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents. Annie Dillard
self giving pages
[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public. Clay Shirky
self-esteem teenager who-i-am
The biggest problem I had - and the biggest problem teenagers have - is not how they dress, how they look or how they act or talk. It's how they see themselves - their self-esteem. In the tenth grade, I realized I am who I am. I've got big ears and big feet. I can etiher sulk around or I can be happy with who I am. The minute I decided to be confident with who I was, all that other stuff stopped. It's all in the way you carry yourself. Clay Aiken
self-esteem opportunity years
When I have my interview with my God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen, whose faith I was able to reinforce, and whose discomfort I was able to assuage—a doer of good, regardless of what assignment I had. These are the metrics of that matter in measuring my life. This realization, which occurred nearly fifteen years ago, guided me every day to seek opportunities to help people in ways tailored to their individual circumstances. My happiness and my sense of worth has been immeasurably improved as a result. Clayton Christensen
self judging people
It's very difficult to judge yourself. Extreme self-doubt is only attractive when it's fictionalized. Which is why people love the movies. They are so reassuring. Claire Danes
self-esteem people challenges
Facts that challenge basic assumptions-and thereby threaten people's livelihood and self-esteem-are simply not absorbed. The mind does not digest them. Daniel Kahneman
self helping self-help
I'm not a great believer in self-help.
self moments
The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.
self effort attention
The conclusion is straightforward : self-control requires attention and effort.
selfish people choices
People who are cognitively busy are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations.
self may doe
Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.
self female males
A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status D. B. Weiss
self long people
Did you ever have the police follow you for so long, that you get suspicious about your own goddamn self? Maybe I did kill them people. D. L. Hughley
self poetry admitting
It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics.... Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose in cruelty against themselves, admitting that they are pandering to, and despising, the lower self. D. H. Lawrence
selfish california effort
California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.
self soul phrases
There was a warmth of fury in his last phrases. He meant she loved him more than he her. Perhaps he could not love her. Perhaps she had not in herself that which he wanted. It was the deepest motive of her soul, this self-mistrust. It was so deep she dared neither realise nor acknowledge. Perhaps she was deficient. Like an infinitely subtle shame, it kept her always back. If it were so, she would do without him. She would never let herself want him. She would merely see.
self my-family
In my very own self, I am part of my family.
self pity surface
Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.
self devil casting
It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.
self may language
The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction.
self games people
When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.
self profound encounters
For in this walk, this voyage, it is yourself, the profound history of your 'self,' that now as always you encounter. Conrad Aiken