Quotes about self
self empty-rooms doors
All my life I have arrived early only to find myself standing self-consciously on a corner, outside a door, in an empty room, but the closer I get to death the earlier I arrive, the longer I am content to wait, perhaps to give myself the false sensation that there is too much time rather than not enough. Nicole Krauss
self logic accepting
It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
self objectivity knowing
We have traditionally thought of knowing in terms of subject and object and have struggled to attain objectivity by detaching our subjectivity. It can't be done, and one of the achievements of postmodernity is to demonstrate that. What we are called to, and what in the resurrection we are equipped for, is a knowing in which we are involved as subjects but as self-giving, not as self-seeking, subjects: in other words, a knowing that is a form of love. N. T. Wright
self way vices
Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming: the more someone behaves in a way that is damaging to self or to others, the more "natural" it will both seem and actually be. Spontaneity, left to itself, can begin by excusing bad behavior and end by congratulating vice.
selfish flower matter
Remember that no matter how selfish, how cruel, how unfeeling you have been today, every time you take a breath, you make a flower happy. Mort Sahl
self rejection doubt
Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection. Monica Raymund
self want pansies
I don't want to be labeled as either a pansy or a heterosexual. Labeling is so self-limiting. We are what we do - not what we say we are. Montgomery Clift
self identity way
I lost my public self, or had it stolenIn a way, it was a form of identity theft. Monica Lewinsky
self careers people
It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through. Miranda Otto
self keys worry
We all have our worries about our bodies and our looks. We just need to make the best of our lovely, wonky selves. The key is never to compare and try to be something you're not. Miranda Hart
self immaturity delay
Immaturity is the inability to delay self gratification. Mike Murdock
self
Your self-portait decides your conduct.
self long-ago sometimes
We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead. Mignon McLaughlin
self born
Born to myself, I like myself alone. John Wilmot
self practice common-sense
Practice self-discipline and keep emotions under control. Good judgment and common sense are essential. John Wooden
selfishness ends
Happiness begins when selfishness ends.
self evaluation inevitable
Without proper self-evaluation, failure is inevitable.
selfish struggle practice
The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain. John Ruskin
selfish evil might
I had no companions to quarrel with, nobody to assist, and nobody to thank... the evil consequence of all this was not, however, what might perhaps have been expected, that I grew up selfish or non affectionate; but that, when affection did come, it came with a violence utterly rampant and unmanageable.
self cities rising
Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments in which the roar of the mill-wheel and the crane takes the place of other devotional music, and in which the worship of Mammon and Moloch is conducted with a tender reverence and an exact propriety; the merchant rising to his Mammon matins, with the self-denial of an anchorite, and expiating the frivolities into which he maybe beguiled in the course of the day by late attendance at Mammon vespers.
self knowing-god knows
Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.
self long trying
And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well -- but 'tis not true! Matthew Arnold
self political ordinary
Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.
selfish fighting people
I just try to find ways to love the people that I'm around. It's hard sometimes because I'm selfish and I want to focus inwardly but when I can fight against that and look at other people's needs, it's really a stark contrast to what people are used to in such a selfish environment. Matt Diaz
self envy interesting
And didn't it always go like that--body parts not lining up the way you wanted them to, all of it a little bit off, as if the world itself were an animated sequence of longing and envy and self-hatred and grandiosity and failure and success, a strange and endless cartoon loop that you couldn't stop watching, because, despite all you knew by now, it was still so interesting. Meg Wolitzer
self pieces mosaics
To be anorexic...she thought, amounted to wanting to shed yourself of some of the imperfect mosaic of pieces that made you who you were. She could understand that now for, maybe underneath that desquamated self you would locate a new version.
self ideas personality
We act, we behave, and we feel the vibration that we're in at the present time according to what we consider our self image to be. And we do not deviate from that pattern. The image you hold of yourself is a premise, a foundation (idea) on which your entire personality is built. This image, not only controls your behavior but your circumstances as well. Maxwell Maltz
self adequate realistic
To really 'live,' that is to find life reasonably satisfying, you must have an adequate and realistic self-image that you can life with. You must find yourself acceptable to 'you.'
self-esteem body spirit
Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to the body.
self-esteem moving opportunity
Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.
self hands phrases
Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome: for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, 'It's no use - I can't do it.'
self keys discipline
Self-discipline is the golden key; without it, you cannot be happy.
self games names
Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.