Quotes about self
self actors actresses
No, actors go out with actresses as a form of self-flagellation. John Cusack
self-worth views numbers
A lot of people want to have market share numbers, lots of users, because that's how they view their self worth. For me, one of the most important things for Linux is having a big community that is actively testing new kernels; it's the only way to support the absolute insane amount of different hardware we deal with. Linus Torvalds
self-esteem style
Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't. Linda Ellerbee
self-control mentor
I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor. Leo Tolstoy
self laughing feelings
To laugh is to risk appearing a fool, to weep is to risk appearing too sentimental, to reach out for another is to risk involvement, and to expose feelings is to risk exposing one's true self. Leo Buscaglia
self people suffering
So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at a famine and wonder where God is, but the world produces enough food for each person to have 3,000 calories a day. It's our own irresponsibility and self-centeredness that prevents people from getting fed. Lee Strobel
selfish parent looks
You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I'm astonished at how I lived my life - it was totally self-involved. Lauren Holly
self age firsts
Self-parody is the first portent of age. Larry McMurtry
self surrender paradox
Self control is about being in charge of the direction our lives are taking. Now for the paradox: We get control of our lives, ultimately, not by will power but by surrender. Lewis B. Smedes
self way mazes
I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words. Lewis H. Lapham
self torches delight
From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter and cadence -- in Gibbon's polyphonic counterpoint and Guedalla's command of the subjunctive, in Mailer's hyperbole and Dillard's similes, in Twain's invectives and burlesques with which he set the torch of his ferocious wit to the hospitality tents of the world's colossal humbug . . . I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.
selfish men pigs
I'm a selfish, little pig of a man. Lewis Black
self stupidity irritated
When I come upon anything-in Logic or in any other hard subject-that entirely puzzles me, I find it a capital plan to talk it over, aloud, even when I am all alone. One can explain things so clearly to one's self! And then, you know, one is so patient with one's self: one never gets irritated at one's own stupidity! Lewis Carroll
self order two
In order to be a good writer, you've got to be a bad boss. Self-discipline and stamina are the two major arms in a writer's arsenal. Leon Uris
selfish love-you mean
The term revolution means: a sudden, radical, and complete change from the way things are normally done. I love that definition because I really feel that in order for us to start walking in the kind of love that Christ commanded us to - the "love your neighbor as yourself" kind - it's going to take a radical change in our current behavior. The church has become passive and selfish and it's going to take a revolution to get us back to the place where we are not just talking the talk, but walking in a love that shows the world Christ's love. Joyce Meyer
self deceit self-sufficient
Perhaps the greatest self-deceit is to tell ourselves that we can be self-sufficient. Joseph Stowell
self-esteem rare-moments seeing
The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing. Joseph Wood Krutch
self environmental balance
The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.
selfish roots desire
Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification. Joseph Campbell
self hero-journey favors
For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state,
self historical ifs
There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
selfish people family-reunion
People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway. Mother Teresa
self-esteem helping-others numbers
Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.
self-esteem cat beloved
There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat. Monica Edwards
self-esteem essentials want
Getting the pretty back is about getting back in touch with your essential self: the part of you that knows what you really want. Molly Ringwald
self-worth giving cameras
If I have anything to give you through camera, it must be of myself. … A gnawing burns inside … to make something of myself worth giving. Minor White
self mirrors fool
When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each photograph was a mirror of my Self.
self portraits photograph
All photographs are self-portraits.
self-esteem night understanding
As a youth, I hated myself for not being good enough. All my inadequacies and failures, not being kind enough, generous or understanding enough, would assail me at night. It became a habit to be guilty and self castigating, not liking myself because I was unworthy... I really tortured myself. Mira Sorvino
self psychics two
A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the same token, a person who self is based exclusively on integration will be well connected and secure, but lack autonomous individuality. Only when a person invests equal amounts of psychic energy in these two processes and avoids both selfishness and conformity is the self likely to reflect complexity. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
self forgetfulness self-forgetfulness
the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.
self might becoming
It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow.
self people growing
When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. They become rigid and defensive, and their self stops growing.