Quotes about self
self disaster transcendent
When we weren't being transcendent we specialized in self-inflicted disaster. Slash
self color tears
Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we treat it as absent, as dead, although it is still present - but above all in the sense of its radical dissection: the word 'quarters' the thing, it tears it out of the embedment in its concrete context, it treats its component parts as entities with an autonomous existence: we speak about color, form, shape, etc., as if they possessed self-sufficient being. Slavoj Zizek
self discipline dancer
One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline. Siobhan Davies
self growth mature
To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to others are nevertheless within one's reach. Sissela Bok
self-esteem thinking people
I think people who come from abuse and/or people who have mental illnesses, have terrible self-esteem problems. Sinead O'Connor
self-esteem cancer unique
From the very beginning you are being told to compare yourself with others. This is the greatest disease; it is like a cancer that goes on destroying your very soul because each individual is unique, and comparison is not possible. I am just myself and you are just yourself. There is nobody else in the world you can be compared with. Rajneesh
self sensual life-is
There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual James Russell Lowell
self restraint clear
Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.
self people four
Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty. James Q. Wilson
self inner-peace peaceful
The true, or higher part of the self is always seeking the state that mystics talk about, the state in which we are filled with a universal love and a peaceful euphoria. James Redfield
self land independence
Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency. James H. Douglas
self-esteem passion ideas
We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to rob us of their companionship. It is obviously not the ideas themselves that are dear to us, but our self-esteem, which is threatened. James Harvey Robinson
self errors groups
Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error.
self interesting
There is nothing else anything like so interesting to ourselves as ourselves.
self giving thank-god
You will surely smile with me when I say, 'Thank God one can still recognise self-pity as such and not give it any greater dignity than just that. James Fox
self musical doe
The composer does not want the self-sufficiency of a richly complex text: he or she wants to feel that the text is something in need of musical setting. James Fenton
selfishness matter connections
There are some tempers--how shall I describe them--formed either of such impenetrable matter, or wrought up by habitual selfishness to such an utter insensibility of what becomes of the fortunes of their fellow-creatures, as if they were not partakers of the same nature, or had no lot or connection at all with the species. Laurence Sterne
self soapbox world
I don't profess to be a healer, a minister, a priest. I feel as an entertainer I can do more good for the world than I would if I were a soapbox orator or a self-made politician. Liberace
self giving doers
Every action is self-perpetuating, every thought is self-perpetuating. Once you cooperate with it, you are giving energy to it. Sooner or later it will become habitual. You will do it and you will not be the doer; you will do it just because of the force of habit.
self space holiness
If you can love death you become deathless; if you can understand non-being then your being becomes the very ground of being-hood, the very ground of God. If you can love non-being then nothing can destroy you, you have transcended time and space. Then you have become one with the total, and this is what holiness is - to become whole is to be holy.
selfish love-you miscellaneous
Unless you love yourself, you can't love anybody. Be selfish.
self cameras conscious
I never studied directing and I never really thought about doing it, and then I just found myself in that situation and tried it. I like to be observing everything else, and I get self-conscious in front of the camera. Sofia Coppola
self leader shadow
Be your own leader, be your own self, step out of my shadows and be your own person. Snoop Dogg
self names ideas
I don't use names or captions for my many portraits of politicians and authors for newspapers. The drawing has to be self-explanatory, so I spend a lot of time sketching to find an idea and an angle that is clear. Siegfried Woldhek
self going-with-the-flow belief
I live my life on self-belief and I live it partly on going with the flow. Melanie Brown
self belief capacity
The human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering. Michael Shermer
self interesting groups
My specialty is mythology.There are artifacts like the hallows scattered through just about every mythology.However, what makes the Celtic hallows so interesting is that they are a self-contained group of objects. Michael Scott
self-esteem love-you way
I love you, don’t I? And the gods know you are definitely not easy to deal with. (Aimee) Thanks, Aim. By the way I still have a tiny bit of confidence left. Please make sure you stomp on it too while you’re at it. Gods forbid it should actually grow into something called self-esteem. (Fang) Sherrilyn Kenyon
selfish tired cold
You’re selfish and you’re cold, and I’m tired of getting frostbite when I touch you. (Acheron)
selfish firsts crystals
The only thing that was sharper and that scarred more was the selfish actions of those you loved when they made it crystal clear that they cared more for themselves than they did for you. Especially when it was someone you trusted to always put you first.
self gloves stones
One doesn't lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone. Sherwood Smith
self ideas psychology
The computer takes up where psychoanalysis left off. It takes the ideas of a decentered self and makes it more concrete by modeling mind as a multiprocessing machine. Sherry Turkle
self mind machines
If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest in computational interpretations of mind is an equally nervous preoccupation with the self as machine.