Quotes about self
self way vices
Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming: the more someone behaves in a way that is damaging to self or to others, the more "natural" it will both seem and actually be. Spontaneity, left to itself, can begin by excusing bad behavior and end by congratulating vice. N. T. Wright
selfish flower matter
Remember that no matter how selfish, how cruel, how unfeeling you have been today, every time you take a breath, you make a flower happy. Mort Sahl
self rejection doubt
Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection. Monica Raymund
self want pansies
I don't want to be labeled as either a pansy or a heterosexual. Labeling is so self-limiting. We are what we do - not what we say we are. Montgomery Clift
self identity way
I lost my public self, or had it stolenIn a way, it was a form of identity theft. Monica Lewinsky
self careers people
It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through. Miranda Otto
self keys worry
We all have our worries about our bodies and our looks. We just need to make the best of our lovely, wonky selves. The key is never to compare and try to be something you're not. Miranda Hart
self immaturity delay
Immaturity is the inability to delay self gratification. Mike Murdock
self
Your self-portait decides your conduct.
self long-ago sometimes
We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead. Mignon McLaughlin
self born
Born to myself, I like myself alone. John Wilmot
self practice common-sense
Practice self-discipline and keep emotions under control. Good judgment and common sense are essential. John Wooden
selfishness ends
Happiness begins when selfishness ends.
self evaluation inevitable
Without proper self-evaluation, failure is inevitable.
selfish struggle practice
The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain. John Ruskin
selfish evil might
I had no companions to quarrel with, nobody to assist, and nobody to thank... the evil consequence of all this was not, however, what might perhaps have been expected, that I grew up selfish or non affectionate; but that, when affection did come, it came with a violence utterly rampant and unmanageable.
self cities rising
Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments in which the roar of the mill-wheel and the crane takes the place of other devotional music, and in which the worship of Mammon and Moloch is conducted with a tender reverence and an exact propriety; the merchant rising to his Mammon matins, with the self-denial of an anchorite, and expiating the frivolities into which he maybe beguiled in the course of the day by late attendance at Mammon vespers.
self revealing-something way
Self-portraits are a way of revealing something about oneself. Eric Kandel
selfish passion exercise
There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking is actually self-renunciation. The miser, health addict, glory chaser and their like are not far behind the selfless in the exercise of self-sacrifice. Eric Hoffer
self frustrated desire
The chief burden of the frustrated is the consciousness of a blemished, ineffectual self, and their chief desire is to slough off the unwanted self and begin a new life. They try to realize this desire either by finding a new identity or by blurring and camouflaging their individual distinctness; and both these ends are reached by imitation.
self-confidence frustration artist
Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and of the poor writer, artist, and scientist in the full possession of creative powers. Nothing so bolsters our self-confidence and reconciles us with ourselves as the continuous ability to create; to see things grow and develop under our hand, day in, day out. The decline of handicrafts in modern times is perhaps one of the causes for the rise of frustration and the increased susceptibility of the individual to mass movements.
self expression support
Vehemence is the expression of a blind effort to support and uphold something that can never stand on its own...Whether it our own meaningless self we are upholding, or some doctrine devoid of evidence, we can do it only in a frenzy of faith.
self extinction matter
The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of extinction, is the only thing that can ever really matter.
self self-respect rudeness
Rudeness luxuriates in the absence of self-respect.
self roots our-world
It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.
self anxiety abuse
A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness and meaningless of an individual existence. It cures the poignantly frustrated not by conferring upon them an absolute truth or by remedying the difficulties and abuses which made their lives miserable, but by freeing them from their ineffectual selves and it does this by enfolding and absorbing them into a closely knit and exultant corporate whole.
self-love wish immortality
Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality. Mortimer Adler
selfish concerned
We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.
self lust sensual
If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.
selfless unselfish-love benevolent
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
selfish giving lust
It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.
self mind criticism
a self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable. Philip Seymour Hoffman
self abandon
Who will adhere to him that abandons himself? Philip Sidney