Quotes about self
self religion denial
Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death. Henry Ward Beecher
self trying denial
Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.
self problem obvious
When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating. Henry Flynt
self ideas wife
The idea of submission is never meant to allow someone to overstep another's boundaries. Submission only has meaning in the context of boundaries, for boundaries promote self-control and freedom. If a wife is not free and in control of herself, she is not submitting anyway. She is a slave subject to a slave driver, and she is out of the will of God. Henry Cloud
self expression criticism
For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is a true thing. Criticism isn’t written for poets, it’s written for other readers. One hopes it is true for other readers if it’s true for oneself. Helen Vendler
self-esteem thinking hands
Very early on, you figure out that you put your self-esteem in the hands of strangers. There's a different commodity. There's the Helena Bonham Carter that everyone thinks they know, who really has nothing to do with me. But you just have to let that go. Helena Bonham Carter
self years suits-you
I just thought I‘d never look good in what everybody else wore. So there’s no point trying. You just have to do what suits you, and it doesn’t matter if you don’t look like everybody else. Be you. That’s our gift and we’ve got to celebrate that, but it does take ages. I was wracked with self-doubt for years. I get spasms of it even now – I’m not indelibly self-confident.
self-esteem hands stranger
Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?
self objectivity ideas
Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity? Joyce Carol Oates
self needs
My self is all to me. I don't have any need of you.
self-confidence healthy body
If a woman says, I am getting these breast implants to gain self confidence, then I have to ask, What kind of a society do we live in where a woman's self-confidence depends on having a dangerous, expensive and painful operation on a perfectly healthy body? Katha Pollitt
self able should
You should be able to have happiness. If you don't have that, then you're not really bringing your whole self to the relationship. Justin Vernon
self-esteem suffering disease
I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem. Julie Bowen
self eight editing
I did a film that I shot in 24 hours that was self-financed for $5,000. It was a feature called Looking For Jimmy that I shot with a bunch of friends. I spent eight months editing because we had 24 hours of footage that made no sense and I learned a lot about directing while editing that film. Julie Delpy
self people denial
People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial. Julie Burchill
self moral sense-of-humor
You have to maintain who you are as a person and stay true to yourself - that's my biggest moral as a human being, as well as a very self-deprecating sense of humor. Josh Hutcherson
self order genius
I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest. Joseph Lancaster
self criticism needs
The Rationalist case needs no straining of evidence and always gains by the severest self-criticism. Joseph McCabe
self interviews conscious
I'm self-conscious in photo shoots. I much prefer to do interviews and talk about the work. Joseph Morgan
self development want
Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want a witness to that entire self-abandonment and helplessness? Katherine Anne Porter
self leaving thieves
I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.
self silence mind
The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded in the egoism I was supposed to transcend. Now I was beginning to understand that a silence that is not clamorous with vexation and worried self-regard can become part of the texture of your mind, can seep into you, moment by moment, and gradually change you. Karen Armstrong
self giving best-self
You are your best self when you give yourself away.
self creative ordinary
Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is found in the life of God itself. They do not do this because it sounds edifying, but because this is the way that human nature seems to work. We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.
self lazy flesh
The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered. Joyce Meyer
self water discipline
God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!
self-love ifs
If you're not at peace with yourself, you can't be at peace with anyone else.
self-worth ego boards
I never read reviews - I never have. I've never read message boards, either. I'm just not interested in it in any way - I'm not interested in it inflating my ego, and I'm not interested in it improving my self-worth. So, I don't read them. Kate Levering
self years self-destructive
I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore. Karen O
self found stills
I still haven't found the place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true self, either. Karen Joy Fowler
self self-love infancy
We cannot love others as others unless we possess suficient self-love, a love we learn from being loved in infancy. Judith Viorst
self soul guilt
Control cannot be called conscience until we are able to take it inside us and make it our own, until--in spite of the fact that the wrongs we have done or imagined will never be punished or known--we nonetheless feel that the clutch in the stomach, that chill upon the soul, that self-inflicted misery called guilt.
self gone truth-is
We've had a major shift in what truth is and where it comes from. We've gone from being God-centered to self-centered, from being objective to being subjective and from being internal to external, Josh McDowell