Quotes about self
self connectedness
Happiness is self-connectedness. Aristotle
selfishness degrees bigs
Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.
self excellence ongoing
We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.
self play bidding
For suppose that every tool we had could perform its task, either at our bidding or itself perceiving the need, and if-like the statues made by Dædalus or the tripods of Hephæstus, of which the poet says that "self-moved they enter the assembly of the gods" - shuttles in a loom could fly to and fro and a plectrum play a lyre all self-moved, then master-craftsmen would have no need of servants nor masters of slaves.
self consciousness conscious
A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.
self ideas notes
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing? Ben Horowitz
self loathing steps
Every single time I step into the studio, I say, 'Can I still do this? Do I still have it? Have I ever had it?' I suppose there's a good amount of self-loathing that goes into any form of artisanship. Ben Harper
self firsts obsession
Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one's own self-obsession.
self play roles
Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.
selfish live-life imagination
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains. Anne Sullivan
self tasks firsts
What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit. Aimee McPherson
self slave made
He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave. Alexis de Tocqueville
selfish passion love-is
Love is the most selfish of all the passions. Alexandre Dumas
self-love looks tough
I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there. Alexandra Fuller
self world knowledge-of-god
The Self-revealing of the Word is in every dimension - above, in creation; below, in the Incarnation; in the depth, in Hades; in the breadth, throughout the world. All things have been filled with the knowledge of God.
self-esteem ocean erode
Cruel words erode the self-esteem like the ocean eats away the shore.
self-esteem people self-respect
Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions. Harvey Mackay
selfish heart joy
It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. Your joy is the greatest contribution you can make to life on the planet. A heart at peace with its owner blesses everyone it touches. Alan Cohen
selfish love-you responsibility
It is not selfish or narcissistic to love yourself. It is your first and foremost responsibility.
selfish mistake emotion
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
selfish love-is ideas
Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself. Aleister Crowley
self-confidence men numbers
As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it. Collect scholars on a club committee, or men of science on a jury; all their virtues vanish, and their vices pop out, reinforced by the self-confidence which the power of numbers is bound to bestow.
self perfection path
What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute of all Truth, Beauty, Purity, Perfection!
self care grooming
If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self. Albert Einstein
self worry understanding
To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.
selfish feelings religion
... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the fetters of his selfish desires and is preoccupied with thoughts, feelings, and aspirations to which he clings because of their superpersonal value.
self hunted self-respect
Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. Alfred Whitney Griswold
selfish acceptance boss
I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me. Alfred North Whitehead
self oneness diversity
The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.
self finals intellect
It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.
self-esteem quality description
Charm is that extra quality that defies description. Alfred Lunt
self-esteem needs nourishment
There is nothing I need so much as nourishment for my Self Esteem
self feet knowing
Walking I am unbound, and find that precious unity of life and imagination, that silent outgoing self, which is so easy to loose, but which a high moments seems to start up again from the deepest rhythms of my own body. How often have I had this longing for an infinite walk - of going unimpeded, until the movement of my body as I walk fell into the flight of streets under my feet - until I in my body and the world in its skin of earth were blended into a single act of knowing. Alfred Kazin