Quotes about self
self soul layers
I shall strip away layer after layer of grime -- the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling -- until I come to the very thing itself and know it for what it is. My soul. My self. John Banville
self doe salary
Just to set the record straight, a salary for a given on-screen performance does not include the right to invade anyone’s privacy, to destroy someone’s sense of self. Jodie Foster
self able should
You should be able to have happiness. If you don't have that, then you're not really bringing your whole self to the relationship. Justin Vernon
self-esteem suffering disease
I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem. Julie Bowen
self eight editing
I did a film that I shot in 24 hours that was self-financed for $5,000. It was a feature called Looking For Jimmy that I shot with a bunch of friends. I spent eight months editing because we had 24 hours of footage that made no sense and I learned a lot about directing while editing that film. Julie Delpy
self people denial
People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial. Julie Burchill
self moral sense-of-humor
You have to maintain who you are as a person and stay true to yourself - that's my biggest moral as a human being, as well as a very self-deprecating sense of humor. Josh Hutcherson
self order genius
I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest. Joseph Lancaster
self criticism needs
The Rationalist case needs no straining of evidence and always gains by the severest self-criticism. Joseph McCabe
self interviews conscious
I'm self-conscious in photo shoots. I much prefer to do interviews and talk about the work. Joseph Morgan
self development want
Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want a witness to that entire self-abandonment and helplessness? Katherine Anne Porter
self leaving thieves
I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing. Katherine Anne Porter
self silence mind
The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded in the egoism I was supposed to transcend. Now I was beginning to understand that a silence that is not clamorous with vexation and worried self-regard can become part of the texture of your mind, can seep into you, moment by moment, and gradually change you. Karen Armstrong
self giving best-self
You are your best self when you give yourself away. Karen Armstrong
self creative ordinary
Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is found in the life of God itself. They do not do this because it sounds edifying, but because this is the way that human nature seems to work. We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind. Karen Armstrong
self lazy flesh
The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered. Joyce Meyer
self water discipline
God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow! Joyce Meyer
self-love ifs
If you're not at peace with yourself, you can't be at peace with anyone else. Joyce Meyer
self-worth ego boards
I never read reviews - I never have. I've never read message boards, either. I'm just not interested in it in any way - I'm not interested in it inflating my ego, and I'm not interested in it improving my self-worth. So, I don't read them. Kate Levering
self years self-destructive
I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore. Karen O
self found stills
I still haven't found the place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true self, either. Karen Joy Fowler
self self-love infancy
We cannot love others as others unless we possess suficient self-love, a love we learn from being loved in infancy. Judith Viorst
self soul guilt
Control cannot be called conscience until we are able to take it inside us and make it our own, until--in spite of the fact that the wrongs we have done or imagined will never be punished or known--we nonetheless feel that the clutch in the stomach, that chill upon the soul, that self-inflicted misery called guilt. Judith Viorst
self gone truth-is
We've had a major shift in what truth is and where it comes from. We've gone from being God-centered to self-centered, from being objective to being subjective and from being internal to external, Josh McDowell
selfish kids want
I like working with kids because I enjoy seeing the looks on their faces and, it's kind of selfish, I want a future audience. Joshua Bell
selfish thinking events
I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick...maker. Joshua Homme
selfish service-to-others behavior
We express true love in obedience to God and service to others- not reckless or selfish behavior- and we choose these behaviors. Joshua Harris
selfish mean land
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons. Joseph Franklin Rutherford
self principles human-nature
Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown. Joseph Butler
self hatred self-love
Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else. Joseph Butler
self doe interest
Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it. Joseph Butler
self america paper
You may well ask how I expect to assert my privacy by resorting to the outrageous publicity of being one's actual self on paper. There's a possibility of it working if one chooses the terms, to wit: outshouting image-gimmick America through a quietly desperate search for self. Kate Millett
self judging conscious
Everyone's projecting onto you, or you feel like everyone is judging you. I feel like I'm being judged a lot of the time. You become really self-conscious. Kate Moss