Quotes about self
self nurse abortion
He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a sanctimonious, self-righteous form of violence against women- it was just another way of legalizing violence against women, Nurse Caroline would say. John Irving
selfish views ideas
From a very selfish point of view, I'm enchanted by the idea that a politician can come along and speak simply and clearly and truthfully to an electorate as though they are grown-ups and to feel the electorate respond to that. John Hodgman
self facts
The fact is I'm very self-similar.
self students form
Every form of true education trains the student in self-reliance John Henrik Clarke
self-esteem giving needs
When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else. John Henry Newman
self-esteem believe thinking
I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people. John Galsworthy
self our-world trying
We are not inviting—we are guarded. Most of our energy is spent trying to hide our true selves, and control our worlds to have some sense of security. John Eldredge
self gods-plan salvation
Self-improveme nt is no more God's plan than self-salvation. John Ortberg
self boredom joy
Ironically, often the thing that keeps me from experiencing joy is my preoccupation with self. The very selfishness that keeps me from pouring myself out for the joy of others also keeps me from noticing and delighting in the myriad small gifts God offers each day. This is why Walker Percy describes boredom as "the self stuffed with the self."
self challenges inspire
Everybody wears an unseen sign that reads: Inspire me. Remind me that my life matters; call me to be my best self; appeal to whatever in me is most noble and honorable. Don't let me go down the path of least resistance. Challenge me to make my life about something more than the acquisition of money or success
self-esteem believe heart
Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being worth so much to God is why my response is so important. Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.
self light infinite
The infinite is a light sleeper. The moment the self awakens, the force of the infinite begins to stir. John O'Donohue
self ego identity
The ego is the false self-born out of fear and defensiveness.
self-esteem enjoy self
Maybe I just have high self-esteem, but I have a lot that I really enjoy. John Mulaney
self realization life-is
Life is a partial, continuous, progressive, multiform and conditionally interactive self-realization of the potentialities of atomic electron states. John Desmond Bernal
self choices certain
Choice is the declaration by self that a certain ideal of self shall be realized. John Dewey
selfishness gains facts
The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness. There is no obvious social motive for the acquirement of mere learning, there is no clear social gain in success thereat.
self expression community
The good society was, like the good self, a diverse yet harmonious, growing yet unified whole, a fully participatory democracy in which the powers and capacities of the individuals that comprised it were harmonized by their cooperative activities into a community that permitted the full and free expression of individuality.
self desert mojave
Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours. John Carmack
self order giving
The enemies of Christ ... could not bear his independence; his "Give the emperor that which is the emperor's" showed a contempt for the affairs of state and its politics for the moral order that their self-respect would not let them tolerate. John Carroll
self political theatre
Stirner's political praxis is quixotic. It accepts the established hierarchies of constraint as given. ... Not liable to any radical change, they constitute part of the theatre housing the individual's action. ... The egoist uses the elements of the social structure as props in his self-expressive act.
self two ties
Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties, it is not easy to determine which of the two precedes and gives birth to the other. John Calvin
self-esteem believe dark
Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict.
self knowledge-of-god self-knowledge
Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.
self vanity blame
Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers. John Berryman
self talking vanity
So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.
self mirrors matter
Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter Johann Georg Hamann
self pessimism economics
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism. Joan Robinson
self-confidence ego comedy
I felt a comedy ego beginning to grow, which gave me the courage to begin tentatively looking into myself for material. Joan Rivers
self self-pity pity
Self-pity shortens your life ...
self want littles
There is a human striving for self-transcendence. It's part of what makes us human. With all of our flaws we want to go a little bit further than we've gone before and maybe even further than anyone else has gone before. George Leonard
self perfection long
Nothing more can be attempted than to establish the beginning and the direction of an infinitely long road. The pretension of any systematic and definitive completeness would be, at least, a self-illusion. Perfection can here be obtained by the individual student only in the subjective sense that he communicates everything he has been able to see. Georg Simmel
selfish drinking pride
Do not give alms promiscuously. Select the unworthy poor and make them happy. To give to the deserving is a duty, but to help the improvident, drinking class is clear generosity, so that the donor has a right to be warmed by a selfish pride and count on a most flattering obituary. George Ade