Quotes about self
self light tree
The dignity of self is greatly enhanced by looking upward in the search for holiness. Like the giant trees, we should reach up for the light. The most important source of light we can come to know is the gift of the Holy Ghost. It is the source of inner strength and peace. James E. Faust
self order wind
There are times when each of us has to have some gumption to take a stand as to what we wish to preserve or change in order to maintain our self-respect and not be as "a reed shaken with the wind" (Matt. 11:7) . . . . We lose much credibility and strength, and we risk being weighed on an uneven balance, when, Don Quixote-like, we go around "tilting windmills".
self body cozy
I'm a little self-conscious about my body. I love to wear hoodies because you can get cozy and eat some food and your belly doesn't show. Jared Padalecki
self levels encounters
The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me. Jarvis Cocker
self people giving
At the turn of the [21st] century it was really Sergey Brin at Google who just had the thought of, well, if we give away all the information services, but we make money from advertising, we can make information free and still have capitalism. But the problem with that is it reneges on the social contract where people still participate in the formal economy. And it's a kind of capitalism that's totally self-defeating because it's so narrow. It's a winner-take-all capitalism that's not sustaining. Jaron Lanier
self criticism employment
Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure. Kingsley Amis
self self-pity pity
Self-pity - it's the only pity that counts. Oscar Levant
selfish reading book
I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
self-esteem mean color
True self-esteem is realizing that you are valuable because you were born. No matter where you came from, what color your skin is, what people say about your family or what mean things people may have done to you, because you were born, you are important and you matter. Oprah Winfrey
self helping evolve
Walk through life eager and open to self-improvemen t and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.
self skills intuition
My business skills have come from being guided by my inner self - my intuition.
self-esteem believe asking
In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.
self age saving
Go ahead: Live with abandon. Be outrageous at any age. What are you saving your best self for?
self-esteem years feelings
All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown.
self-esteem essence play
Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.
self-esteem who-i-am esteem
It's up to each of us to get very still and say, 'This is who I am.' No one else defines your life. Only you do.
self-esteem connections spirit
What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.
self essence may
The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable. Oliver Goldsmith
self mirrors prison
To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self. Margaret Atwood
selfish princess want
Remember,' she'd tell her staff, 'every customer wants to feel like a princess, and princesses are selfish and overbearing.
self-esteem permit refuse
You refuse to own yourself, you permit others to do it for you
self dwelling different
Things might have been different if she hadn't been able to drift; if she'd had to concentrate on her next meal, instead of dwelling on all the injuries she felt we'd done her. An unearned income encourages self-pity in those already prone to it.
self waiting speech
I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a made thing, not something born.
self broken needs
You do not need to be fixed. You are not broken. You have never been broken. You are not in parts. These are just thoughts. These are just beliefs. Accept your self, where you are in this moment. Accept your wholeness. That is freedom. Marcus Thomas
self spirituality fingers
The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger. Marcus Tullius Cicero
self requirements self-reliant
Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centers all his requirements in himself alone.
selfishness virtue difficult
It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.
self-esteem men secret
The most difficult secret for a man to keep is the opinion he has of himself. Marcel Pagnol
self decision intuition
All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis. Marcel Duchamp
self doubt self-doubt
I'm often prone to self-doubt about everything I do. Marc Almond
self risk degrees
You can never protect yourself 100%. What you do is protect your self as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk. Kevin Mitnick
self soul trying
Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life. Kenny Smith
self would-be rebel
It is the cruelest of all ironies that moderns imagine themselves to be (abstractly understood) "individuals," because in actuality moderns are "types," abstracted and self-abstractive victims of a process of stereotyping that afflicts even would-be rebels and anarchists.