Quotes about self
self order years
Body concentrates order. It continuously self-repairs. Every five days you get a new stomach lining. You get a new liver every two months. Your skin replaces itself every six weeks. Every year, 98 percent of the atoms of your body are replaced. This non-stop chemical replacement, metabolism, is a sure sign of life. Lynn Margulis
self-confidence firsts first-time
I had a terrible marriage the first time around because I had no self-confidence, even though I had tremendous self-confidence. Lynn Johnston
self bass arguing
Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these. Ludwig van Beethoven
self improvement creation
One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.
self feelings brain
The feeling of an unbridgeable gulf between consciousness and brain-process:When does this feeling occur in the present case?It is when I (for example) turn my attention in a particular way on to my own consciousness, and, astonished, say to myself: THIS is supposed to be produced by a process in the brain!--as it were clutching my forehead. Ludwig Wittgenstein
self-esteem belief mistrust
One can mistrust one's own senses, but not one's own belief.
self world limits
The subject does not belong to the world; rather, it is a limit of the world.
self justice vices
Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice? Luc de Clapiers
selfish tired cold
You’re selfish and you’re cold, and I’m tired of getting frostbite when I touch you. (Acheron) Sherrilyn Kenyon
selfish firsts crystals
The only thing that was sharper and that scarred more was the selfish actions of those you loved when they made it crystal clear that they cared more for themselves than they did for you. Especially when it was someone you trusted to always put you first.
self gloves stones
One doesn't lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone. Sherwood Smith
self ideas psychology
The computer takes up where psychoanalysis left off. It takes the ideas of a decentered self and makes it more concrete by modeling mind as a multiprocessing machine. Sherry Turkle
self mind machines
If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest in computational interpretations of mind is an equally nervous preoccupation with the self as machine.
selfish men thinking
Men are selfish and don't think about anything else but them self." pg. 45 Sherry Argov
self-esteem thinking people
It's that a bit of irreverence is necessary to have any self-esteem at all. Not irreverence for people, but rather, for what other people think.
selfish hate heart
Disease. Filth. Waste. Crime. Brutality. What’s there to like? (Solin) There’s brutality on Olympus. (Arik) True. But I hate humanity as much as I hate the gods. Both groups are selfish bastards bent on destroying everything around them. They were given a perfect world and rather than enjoy it, they’d rather destroy it and each other. Excuse me if I don’t look at them with love in my eyes but rather scorn in my heart. (Solin)
self imperfection deny
Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood. Nicolas Chamfort
self purpose pity
...trade the life of self pity, that I was living, for a life of purpose! - Rebekah - Nick Vujicic
self ego fiction
There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered and ego-driven, which is the death of a memoir. Nick Flynn
self order ego
Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it’s purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it’s going to fail.
self personality rude
When the excessively shy force themselves to be forward, they are frequently surprisingly unsubtle and overdirect and even rude: they have entered an extreme region beyond their normal personality, an area of social crime where gradations don't count; unavailable to them are the instincts and taboos that booming extroverts, who know the territory of self-advancement far better, can rely on. Nicholson Baker
self cities two
New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.) Nora Ephron
self
The enslaving of the other is also the enslaving of the self. Nikolai Berdyaev
self discipline wish
I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one. Nikola Tesla
self sea action
The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.
selfish struggle heart
Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted be hampered and ill-treated in its adolescence-by want of means, by selfish interest, pedantry, stupidity and ignorance; that it be attacked and stifled; that it pass through bitter trials and tribulations, through the heartless strife of commercial existence. ... So all that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combatted, suppressed-only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.
self joy sanctuary
Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.
self practice snow
This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but in a little while I conquered my weakness and felt a pleasure I never knew before - that of doing as I willed.
self risk humiliation
Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.
self issues stories
The stories that I want to tell are completely, well somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems. Nicole Holofcener
self empty-rooms doors
All my life I have arrived early only to find myself standing self-consciously on a corner, outside a door, in an empty room, but the closer I get to death the earlier I arrive, the longer I am content to wait, perhaps to give myself the false sensation that there is too much time rather than not enough. Nicole Krauss
self logic accepting
It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
self objectivity knowing
We have traditionally thought of knowing in terms of subject and object and have struggled to attain objectivity by detaching our subjectivity. It can't be done, and one of the achievements of postmodernity is to demonstrate that. What we are called to, and what in the resurrection we are equipped for, is a knowing in which we are involved as subjects but as self-giving, not as self-seeking, subjects: in other words, a knowing that is a form of love. N. T. Wright