Quotes about self
self beast should
I've become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; it's difficult to tame the beast in oneself. Ivan Turgenev
self live-in-the-moment life-is
Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he's something innately superior, something eternal--and lives, is obligated to live, in the moment and for the moment.
self medicine understanding
Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I'm still learning. Irvin D. Yalom
self forever treasure
Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.
self despair pay
Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.
selfish trainspotting welsh
I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself. Irvine Welsh
self singing assertive
Nothing is more beautifully and acceptably self-assertive than good singing. Iris Murdoch
self light secret
We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.
self law discipline
My whole theory for the improvement of society is based on a belief in the discipline and the education of the individual to self-control and right doing, for the sake of right doing. I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws. Ida Tarbell
self enthusiasm perpetual
The self is too small an object for perpetual enthusiasm. Huston Smith
self consciousness form
Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism. Gloria Naylor
self stereotype purity
We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and a stereotype in itself: women have to be pure, women are not concerned about money. Gloria Steinem
self issues people
If you look at the public opinion polls even, support for all the issues, people who self-identify as feminists are as least as many as those who self-identify as Republicans.
self hatred needs
Self-hatred leads to the need either to dominate or to be dominated.
self-esteem blessing serious
Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.
self-esteem democracy bases
Self-esteem is the basis of any democracy.
self-esteem luxury grew
I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about "self-esteem" would have seemed like a luxury.
self-esteem passion finding-yourself
Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.
self logic justified
Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.
self brave greek
The Indian gods are imposing, the Greek gods are not. Indeed they are not brave, not self-controlled, they have no manners, they are not gentlemen and ladies. Gerard Manley Hopkins
self degrees individualism
When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness.
self taste my-own
Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.
self giving giver
Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.
self law foundation
The modern state appeals to morality, to religion, and to natural law as the ideological foundation of its existence. At the same time it is prepared to infringe any or all of these in the interest of self-preservation. J. M. Coetzee
self broken half
I speak to the broken halves of all our selves and tell them to embrace, loving the worst in us equally with the best.
self holocaust rabbits
Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything the Third Reich was capable of, indeed dwarfs it, in that ours is an enterprise without end, self-regenerating, bringing rabbits, rats, poultry, livestock ceaselessly into the world for the purpose of killing them.
self ability findings
Finding out what you’re good at, and doing it to the best of your ability, is the route to self-respect. J. K. Rowling
self blood hatred
Some of her self-hatred had oozed out with the blood.
self differences serenity
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Nate Silver
self slave masters
To be one's own master is to be the slave of self. Natalie Clifford Barney
self feelings relax
As you you deeply into your own awareness, and relax the self-contraction, and dissolve into the empty ground of your own primordial experience, the simply feeling of Being-right now, right here-is it not obvious at once? Ken Wilber
self gains awareness
To develop a more or less accurate self-image...is simply to gain a comprehensive awareness of those facets of yourself which you didn't know existed. And these facets are easily spotted because they show up as your symptoms.
self world matter
For authentic transformation is not a matter of belief but of the death of the believer; not a matter of translating the world but of transforming the world; not a matter of finding solace but of finding infinity on the other side of death. The self is not made content; the self is made toast.