Quotes about self
self world sin
The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness. John Piper
self-esteem healing soul
We are all starved for the glory of God, not self. No one goes to the Grand Canyon to increase self-esteem. Why do we go? Because there is greater healing for the soul in beholding splendor than there is in beholding self.
self kind restless
Restless thoughts are a kind of mental 'static' which must be silenced if we are to hear the whispers of our inner self. John Novak
self law defense
As a matter of international law, the United States is in an armed conflict with al-Qa'ida, the Taliban, and associated forces, in response to the 9/11 attacks, and we may also use force consistent with our inherent right of national self-defense. John O. Brennan
selfish conceited rights
How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation! John Muir
selfish law people
It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature. John von Neumann
self stranger individual
The individual who has become a stranger to himself has lost the capacity for genuine self-renewal. John W. Gardner
self-confidence successful essence
The essence of successful discipline is not technique; rather, it is self-confidence. John Rosemond
self denial worst
The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that. John Sterling
self intuition natural-instinct
Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.
self views feet
All of us have inflated views of ourselves, especially in self-righteousn ess, until we have visited a place called Calvary. It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size. John Stott
self bored comfort
I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction. John Steinbeck
self-esteem self-love acquaintance
It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.
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.
selfish men thinking
Men are selfish and don't think about anything else but them self." pg. 45 Sherry Argov
self-esteem thinking people
It's that a bit of irreverence is necessary to have any self-esteem at all. Not irreverence for people, but rather, for what other people think.
selfish hate heart
Disease. Filth. Waste. Crime. Brutality. What’s there to like? (Solin) There’s brutality on Olympus. (Arik) True. But I hate humanity as much as I hate the gods. Both groups are selfish bastards bent on destroying everything around them. They were given a perfect world and rather than enjoy it, they’d rather destroy it and each other. Excuse me if I don’t look at them with love in my eyes but rather scorn in my heart. (Solin) Sherrilyn Kenyon
self imperfection deny
Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood. Nicolas Chamfort
self purpose pity
...trade the life of self pity, that I was living, for a life of purpose! - Rebekah - Nick Vujicic
self ego fiction
There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered and ego-driven, which is the death of a memoir. Nick Flynn
self order ego
Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it’s purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it’s going to fail.
self personality rude
When the excessively shy force themselves to be forward, they are frequently surprisingly unsubtle and overdirect and even rude: they have entered an extreme region beyond their normal personality, an area of social crime where gradations don't count; unavailable to them are the instincts and taboos that booming extroverts, who know the territory of self-advancement far better, can rely on. Nicholson Baker
self cities two
New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.) Nora Ephron
self
The enslaving of the other is also the enslaving of the self. Nikolai Berdyaev
self discipline wish
I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one. Nikola Tesla
self sea action
The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.
selfish struggle heart
Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted be hampered and ill-treated in its adolescence-by want of means, by selfish interest, pedantry, stupidity and ignorance; that it be attacked and stifled; that it pass through bitter trials and tribulations, through the heartless strife of commercial existence. ... So all that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combatted, suppressed-only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.
self joy sanctuary
Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.
self practice snow
This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but in a little while I conquered my weakness and felt a pleasure I never knew before - that of doing as I willed.
self risk humiliation
Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.
self issues stories
The stories that I want to tell are completely, well somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems. Nicole Holofcener