Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sissela Bok

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.

Sinead O'Connor

I think people who come from abuse and/or people who have mental illnesses, have terrible self-esteem problems.

Rajneesh

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

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.

Rajneesh

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.

Rajneesh

Unless you love yourself, you can't love anybody. Be selfish.

Sofia Coppola

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.

Snoop Dogg

Be your own leader, be your own self, step out of my shadows and be your own person.

Siegfried Woldhek

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.

Melanie Brown

I live my life on self-belief and I live it partly on going with the flow.

Michael Shermer

The human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering.

Michael Scott

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.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

You’re selfish and you’re cold, and I’m tired of getting frostbite when I touch you. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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.

John Owen

Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion in the world.

John Owen

Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.

John Owen

The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while they are here in this world, are nothing but self-deceiving imaginations.

John Owen

Free will is "corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds"

John Milton

And the earth self-balanced on her centre hung.

Norman Cousins

The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling.

Norman Cousins

You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.

Norma McCorvey

The abortionist I worked for, he's a very greedy man, a selfish man.

Nina Hagen

Do some selfless service for people who are in need. Consider the whole picture, not just our little selves.

Misha Collins

I had a moment when I first got on Supernatural when I was like, “Oh my god, people are paying attention to me, I have fans, maybe I should cultivate an image and try to seem really cool.” I had this moment of being commercially self conscious and it took maybe a month for me to realize no, this is not who I ****ing am, and here's a picture of me in drag. Which is, by the way, so much more liberating and relaxing. There's not a more sure fire way to give a stifled, boring, empty, vapid, meaningless interview than trying to say the right thing...

Mike Tyson

You can't be everybody's friend, you can't save the world, I learned this word: self-preservation. Once you do that, you can be friends with people, but how would you be a friend to anybody if you're not a friend to yourself.

Miguel de Cervantes

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

Neil Diamond

I have a lot of confidence, but little Self-Esteem. This has given me a tremendous creative spark because it forced me to keep proving myself.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.

Neil Gaiman

I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem?

Neil Gaiman

And, selfish and scared, I wonder how much more he has to give.

Neil Gaiman

What's it like then?" asked Old Bailey. "Being dead?" The marquis sighed. And then he twisted his lips up into a smile, and with a glitter of his old self, he replied, "Live long enough, Old Bailey, and you can find out for yourself.

Neil Gaiman

Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.