Quotes about self
self who-i-am levels
On the deepest level, what I know for sure is that who I am, essentially, is consciousness and consciousness is timeless and it transcends the body; it transcends the psychological "me," the egoic self. Everybody can know themselves as consciousness. Eckhart Tolle
self get-away
Can't get away from your own self. Holly Black
self difficult wanted
I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult? Hermann Hesse
self fire mind
The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire.
self voice judging
The judge who sits over the murderer and looks into his face, and at one moment recognizes all the emotions and potentialities and possibilities of the murderer in his own soul and hears the murderer's voice as his own, is at the next moment one and indivisible as the judge, and scuttles back into the shell of his cultivated self and does his duty and condemns the murderer to death.
self errors siddhartha
One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.
self years proud
Was it not his Self, his small, fearful and proud Self, with which he had wrestled for so many years, but which had always conquered him again, which appeared each time again and again, which robbed him of happiness and filled him with fear?
self excellence doe
Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.
self-esteem soul prison
Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul. Henry Van Dyke
selfishness noli-me-tangere shame
Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame. Jose Rizal
self justice literature
A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them. Jose Marti
selfish men thieves
A selfish man is a thief.
selfish world aggressive
The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that. Jose Mourinho
self keys wish
My wheelchair was the key to seeing all this happen—especially since God’s power always shows up best in weakness. So here I sit … glad that I have not been healed on the outside, but glad that I have been healed on the inside. Healed from my own self-centered wants and wishes. Joni Eareckson Tada
self
Everyone has a private self and a public self. Kevin Conroy
selfish lips mines
Maybe I'm being selfish, but I choose you." He leaned over, lips brushing mine as he whispered, "I always choose you. Kelley Armstrong
self rocks black
I'd like to get something small and self-generated in before Black Rock has whatever life that it has. Katie Aselton
self-esteem thinking actors
To be an actor, a lot of times it's a strange combination of high confidence and low self-esteem. Which is a weird combination to have, but I think it's sort of very common among actors. Kurt Fuller
self miserable highlander
A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away. Kurt Cobain
self years two
I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going to work. It's astonishing how many people remain shackled for years, decades even, in a protracted and mutual state of self-delusion and false hope when in fact they had their answer in those first two weeks. Khaled Hosseini
self towers foundation
You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation. Khalil Gibran
self-esteem insults-you praise
Your saying 'I do not understand you' is praise beyond my worth, and an insult you do not deserve.
self sea depth
Seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless.
self-confidence people doubt
Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.
self-confidence creepy evidence
I love creepy old dudes. I love that they have so much self-confidence, despite having no evidence whatsoever to back it up. Kesha
self-improvement rats rage
Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole. Jonathan Swift
self revolution moral
In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint. Jonathan Sacks
self profound doubt
Profound, bottomless self-doubt - it has no value - what's the point? In a way, it takes up as much time as anything else. Jonathan Safran Foer
self-esteem editors advertisers
What editors are obliged to appear to say that Naomi Wolf
self-esteem stronger rising
The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate.
self-esteem men thinking
What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?
self-esteem mean sick
Healthy" and "diseased," as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been defined as sick as a means of subjecting them to social control.
self-esteem eye reflection
Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and seek it in the gaze of the God of Beauty, in whose perception she is never complete.