Quotes about self
self tools emotion
Music has always been such an amazing tool for me to access self and emotion. Matisyahu
self understanding mind
What is important is to keep our mind high in the world of true understanding, and returning to the world of our daily experience to seek therein the truth of beauty. No matter what we may be doing at a given moment, we must not forget that is has a bearing upon our everlasting self which is poetry. Matsuo Basho
selfish team sacrifice
The most DIFFICULT thing for individuals to do when they become part of a team is to sacrifice, it is much EASIER to be selfish. Pat Riley
self people poor
People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much. Paddy Considine
self-esteem pride lust
Lust, Pride, Sloth, and Gluttony, or, as we call them these days, "getting in touch with your sexuality," "raising your self-esteem," "relaxation therapy," and "being a recovered bulimic." P. J. O'Rourke
self-esteem lying self-love
The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self. Plato
self contentment littles
Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.
self giving matter
If in a discussion of many matters ... we are not able to give perfectly exact and self-consistent accounts, do not be surprised: rather we would be content if we provide accounts that are second to none in probability.
self choices soul
The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life... Knowledge easily acquired is that which the enduing self had in an earlier life, so that it flows back easily.
self people democracy
The more people participate in the process of their own education, and the more people participate in defining what kind of production to produce, and for what and why, the more people participate in the development of their selves. The more people become themselves, the better the democracy. Paulo Freire
self world born
No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.
self-esteem goldfish bowls
I was the goldfish that leapt out of the bowl. Paula Fox
self-confidence enemy monsters
It's me who is my enemy Me who beats me up Me who makes the monsters Me who strips my confidence. Paula Cole
selfish political climate
If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences. This isn’t being political, it is being selfish. Phil Jones
self support definitions
You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self. Phil McGraw
self-esteem needs results
Self-esteem cannot be directly injected. It needs to result from doing well, from being warranted. Martin Seligman
self world-suffering people
And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused. Martin Sheen
self self-made made
I'm a Self-made Woman in Every Sense of the Word Laverne Cox
self-esteem very-happy feels
I don't feel like my money or my success defines me. I've always been very happy just bein' me. Lauryn Hill
selfishness size stinginess
stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing. Laura Lippman
self people interesting
What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships. Laura Linney
self waiting firsts
For now, we assume that self-evolving robots will learn to mimic human traits, including, eventually, humor. And so, I can't wait to hear the first joke that one robot tells to another robot. Lance Morrow
self self-reliance absolute-freedom
Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance Lisa Murkowski
self discovery matter
Once you've started down that road to self-discovery, no matter how treacherous the path before you, you can't turn back. The universe doesn't allow it. Lisa Unger
self easy should
Easy, Marks,' he whispered. 'One of us has to have some self-control, and it really should be you. Lisa Kleypas
selfish peacock
Only you could love such a vile, selfish peacock, Evie.
self way loathing
I don't trust anyone who hasn't been self-destructiv e in some way, and who hasn't gone through some sort of bout of self-loathing. You've got to bang yourself around a bit to know yourself. Johnny Depp
self ideas people
My self-image it still isn't that alright. No matter how famous I am, no matter how many people go to see my movies, I still have the idea that I'm that pale no-hoper that I used to be. A pale no-hoper that happens to be a little lucky now. Tomorrow it'll be all over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again.
self examination fiction
Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet. John Updike
selfish decision made
I never made a decision in my life that wasn't one hundred per cent selfish.
selfish party boys
In fact we do not try to picture the afterlife, nor is it our selves in our nervous tics and optical flecks that we wish to perpetuate; it is the self as the window on the world that we can't bear to thinkof shutting. My mind when I was a boy of ten or eleven sent up its silent scream at the thought of future aeons -- at the thought of the cosmic party going on without me. The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise of the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.
self consciousness turns
A writer's self-consciousness, for which he is much scorned, is really a mode of interestedness, that inevitably turns outward.
self creative use
The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.