Quotes about self
selfish army circles
If you look at Washington, you see permanently camped on the banks of the Potomac spread around in concentric circles an army representing thousands of selfish interests. The sole purpose of their presence is to plunder, by hook or crook, the public treasury for the benefit of their particular people or corporations. Charley Reese
self individual evolve
I know myself as mortal, but this raises the question: "What is I?" Am I an individual, or am I an evolving life stream composed of countless selves? Charles Lindbergh
self perpetuating
We can so reconstruct society that it will be self-perpetuating instead of as now, self-exhaustive.
self obsession motifs
Obsession with self is the motif of our time. Charles Krauthammer
selfish be-kind just-being
Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish. Aisha Tyler
self photograph conscious
I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious, Aidan Gillen
self disease doe
Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes. Aidan Chambers
selfish artist people
Artists are the worst [people]. They are selfish, self-centred; they don't care what happens. Ai Weiwei
self-confidence olympics needs
Because Great Britain has self-confidence, it doesn't need a monumental Olympics.
self way-forward insulting
Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
self contentment true-self
Comparison is the death of true self-contentment. John Powell
self why-not banishment
And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment! William Shakespeare
self actors chicago
Chicago actors are hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding. Bill Murray
self yesterday anxiety
I would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I've been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I'd go back to my younger self and say, "Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don't be so anxious about everything. Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow." Bill Nighy
self-improvement principles improving-yourself
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself. Benjamin Haydon
selfish successful satisfaction
A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction. Benjamin Spock
self deception may
No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid, and however unpleasant the truth may be, it is better to face it once and for all, to get used to it, and to proceed to build your life in accordance with it. Bertrand Russell
self use brake
The use of self control is like the use of brakes on train. It is useful when you find yourself in wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right
self order desire
Even if it is indifferent to human desires, as it seems to be; if human life is a passing episode, hardly noticeable in the vastness of cosmic processes; if there is no superhuman purpose, and no hope of ultimate salvation, it is better to know and acknowledge this truth than to endeavor, in futile self-assertion, to order the universe to be what we find comfortable.
self born righteousness
Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.
self play joy
It's just a joy to be able to work with a lot of different musicians. When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes. Cass McCombs
self-esteem hair important
I understand how important hair is to a woman's self-esteem and confidence. Cat Deeley
selfish maturity years
So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other. Carol Shields
self investing juan
Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone. Carlos Castaneda
self pitfalls devotion
The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective. Agnes Martin
self
Where there are no tigers, a wildcat is very self-important
self-esteem
Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.
self training groups
There are self-awareness groups, to help you discover who you really are ... encounter groups, to help you deal with who you really are ... assertiveness training groups to help you stand up for who you really are ... Suddenly, the only way to become an individual is to join a group. Cathy Guisewite
self appeals should
It appeals to the higher nature of the self to put aside food which once lived - I do not consider myself food, why should I ask all other creatures to consider themselves so? Catherynne M. Valente
selfish mates i-am-selfish
I am selfish. I am cruel. My mate cannot be less than I.
self psychology ego
The term "self" seems a suitable one for the unconscious substrate whose actual exponent in consciousness is the ego. The ego stands to the self as the moved to the mover, or as object to subject, because the determining factors that radiate outward from the self surround the ego on all sides and are therefore supraordinate to it. The self, like the unconscious, as an a priori existent out of which the ego evolves. It is, so to speak, an unconscious prefiguration of the ego. It is not I who create myself; rather, I happen to myself. Carl Jung
self psychology body
The symbols of the self arise in the depths of the body, and they express its materiality every bit as much as the perceiving consciousness. The symbol is thus a living body
self psychics psychology
The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself] can become a symbol of the self. For this reason the symbol of the self is not always as total as the definition would require.