Quotes about self
self denial essentials
[Heresy is] the dislocation of a complete and self-supporting scheme by the introduction of a novel denial of some essential part therein. Hilaire Belloc
self abuse world
The world is full of double beds And most delightful maidenheads, Which being so, there's no excuse For sodomy or self-abuse.
self-esteem responsibility hands
A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself. Henry Winkler
selfish war forgiving
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself. Henry Ward Beecher
self contemplation conceit
Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.
selfish men law
Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
self imagination heaven
All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God's self in the soul.
selfish government world
The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.
selfish exercise luxury
When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness.
self effort soul
Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.
self religion denial
Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.
self trying denial
Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.
self problem obvious
When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating. Henry Flynt
self ideas wife
The idea of submission is never meant to allow someone to overstep another's boundaries. Submission only has meaning in the context of boundaries, for boundaries promote self-control and freedom. If a wife is not free and in control of herself, she is not submitting anyway. She is a slave subject to a slave driver, and she is out of the will of God. Henry Cloud
self expression criticism
For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is a true thing. Criticism isn’t written for poets, it’s written for other readers. One hopes it is true for other readers if it’s true for oneself. Helen Vendler
self-esteem thinking hands
Very early on, you figure out that you put your self-esteem in the hands of strangers. There's a different commodity. There's the Helena Bonham Carter that everyone thinks they know, who really has nothing to do with me. But you just have to let that go. Helena Bonham Carter
self years suits-you
I just thought I‘d never look good in what everybody else wore. So there’s no point trying. You just have to do what suits you, and it doesn’t matter if you don’t look like everybody else. Be you. That’s our gift and we’ve got to celebrate that, but it does take ages. I was wracked with self-doubt for years. I get spasms of it even now – I’m not indelibly self-confident.
self-esteem hands stranger
Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?
self substance way
I will not sulk about having no boyfriend, but develop inner poise and authority and sense of self as woman of substance, complete without boyfriend, as best way to obtain boyfriend. Helen Fielding
self want woe
Whatever is the lot of humankind I want to taste within my deepest self. I want to seize the highest and the lowest, to load its woe and bliss upon my breast, and thus expand my single self titanically and in the end go down with all the rest. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
self action contemplation
Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.
self giving accountability
The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.
self-esteem self-respect levels
A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
self literature spoken-word
Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
self firsts favourite
It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
self-esteem yoga believe
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
self people ego
The people who could most benefit from the self-reflective ego-dissolving qualities of cannabis are the ones that want it to be illegal. Joe Rogan
self wind roots
The roots of all living things are tied together. Deep in the ground of being, they tangle and embrace. This understanding is expressed in the term nonduality. If we look deeply, we find that we do not have a separate self-identity, a self that does not include sun and wind, earth and water, creatures and plants, and one another. Joan Halifax
self hands play
If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with us, so little perception as to remain blind to our fatal weaknesses. On the other, we are peculiarly in thrall to everyone we see, curiously determined to live out—since our self-image is untenable—their false notions of us… We play roles doomed to failure before they are begun, each defeat generating fresh despair at the urgency of divining and meeting the next demand made upon us. Joan Didion
self play issues
Self-righteousness and presumptive moral judgments pose a great danger in the political arena. To become convinced of the divine infallibility of one's personal predilections on a secular political issue is to play God, to assume to oneself the attributes of deity. It cultivates an arrogant intolerance of dissenting viewpoints and relegates one's political adversaries to the category of evil per se. Jim Wright
self identity ability
The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly. Erik Erikson
selfish heart names
And the flesh is that reprehensible preference for self that lurks within every one of our hearts. It is that base and selfish instinct to preserve our own interests at the expense of God's interests. It's devious, it's deceitful, it's self-indulgent. It's interested only in selfish comfort and will happily crucify Christ afresh to secure it. God also has another name for it- sin. Eric Ludy
self-esteem skinny too-short
We're always too skinny, or too fat. Too tall, or too short. We're shaming each other, and we're shaming ourselves, and it sucks. Emma Stone