Quotes about self
self excellence doe
Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves. Hermann Hesse
self-esteem soul prison
Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul. Henry Van Dyke
self intellectual mind
To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable for the want of intellectual power. Whenever Nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
self intuition way
The subliminal self is in no way inferior to the conscious self. It knows how to choose and to divine. Henri Poincare
self class understanding
Ive had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect. Henrik Ibsen
self differences
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
self perfect his-love
Our inclination is to show our Lord only what we feel comfortable with. But the more we dare to reveal our whole trembling self to him, the more we will be able to sense that his love, which is perfect love, casts out all our fears. Henri Nouwen
self opposites people
Of one thing I am sure. Complaining is self-perpetuating and counterproductive. Whenever I express my complaints in the hope of evoking pity and receiving the satisfaction I so much desire, the result is always the opposite of what I tried to get. A complainer is hard to live with, and very few people know how to respond to the complaints made by a self-rejecting person. The tragedy is that, often, the complaint, once expressed, leads to that which is most feared: further rejection.
self rejection meaningful-life
The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.
self solitude our-society
Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.
self purification true-self
Hiddenness is the place of purification. In hiddenness we find our true selves.
self waiting feelings
Listening is much more than allowing another to talk while waiting for a chance to respond. Listening is paying full attention to others and welcoming them into our very beings. The beauty of listening is that those who are listened to start feeling accepted, start taking our words more seriously and discovering their true selves.
self long somalia
The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance. Hawa Abdi
self careers tough-questions
The most important characteristic that has allowed me to succeed is confidence. I have always been comfortable in my own skin, and even when I was just starting out in my career, had the strength and self-assurance to ask tough questions and push for answers. Heather Bresch
selfish reflection men
Kindly politeness is the slow fruit of advanced reflection; it is a sort of humanity and kindliness applied to small acts and every day discourse: it bids man soften towards others, and forget himself for the sake of others: it constrains genuine nature, which is selfish and gross. Hippolyte Taine
selfish jealous etc
All of the things that the bible warns you of being: jealous, covetous, murderous, selfish, etc., that's kind of how humans are. Henry Rollins
self alcohol why-not
Am I self-righteous? Why not? It's not like I can count on you to be righteous for me.
self creative acting
With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to be in the creative experience without being as dependent on others. Helen Slater
self-esteem quality looks
While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues. Heinrich Heine
self numbness able
Your superhuman power was to be able not to feel. Is it there inside everybody, this self that comes out while you are in captivity? You become the closest approximation of yourself that can tolerate living there. Heather O'Neill
self feelings peers
I did get bullied and I did get picked on and I did have that feeling in my gut of being incredibly self-conscious. I naturally gravitated towards my elders because I didn't know how to speak or be present with my peers. Heather Matarazzo
self trying method
Between takes I find it difficult to switch off and then try and re-emerge myself in the part, so I try to stay in that frame of mine all day. It can be exhausting and you lose a sense of self, but it is the method that works best for me. Hayden Christensen
self lasts england
When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England. Hilaire Belloc
self denial essentials
[Heresy is] the dislocation of a complete and self-supporting scheme by the introduction of a novel denial of some essential part therein.
self abuse world
The world is full of double beds And most delightful maidenheads, Which being so, there's no excuse For sodomy or self-abuse.
self-esteem responsibility hands
A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself. Henry Winkler
selfish war forgiving
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself. Henry Ward Beecher
self contemplation conceit
Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.
selfish men law
Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
self imagination heaven
All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God's self in the soul.
selfish government world
The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.
selfish exercise luxury
When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness.
self effort soul
Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.