Quotes about self
self personality secret
I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality Joseph Conrad
selfish kids want
I like working with kids because I enjoy seeing the looks on their faces and, it's kind of selfish, I want a future audience. Joshua Bell
selfish thinking events
I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick...maker. Joshua Homme
selfish needs need-you
If you're not ready to consider marriage or you're not truly interested in marrying a specific person, it's selfish and potentially harmful to encourage that person to need you or ask him or her to gratify you emotionally or physically. Joshua Harris
selfish service-to-others behavior
We express true love in obedience to God and service to others- not reckless or selfish behavior- and we choose these behaviors.
selfish mean land
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons. Joseph Franklin Rutherford
self principles human-nature
Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown. Joseph Butler
self hatred self-love
Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.
self doe interest
Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it.
self america paper
You may well ask how I expect to assert my privacy by resorting to the outrageous publicity of being one's actual self on paper. There's a possibility of it working if one chooses the terms, to wit: outshouting image-gimmick America through a quietly desperate search for self. Kate Millett
self judging conscious
Everyone's projecting onto you, or you feel like everyone is judging you. I feel like I'm being judged a lot of the time. You become really self-conscious. Kate Moss
self people ends
People will always show their true selves in the end. Leona Lewis
self levels want
Readers should aspire to what is excellent. They should refuse to read a substitute Bible. They should want a Bible that calls them to their higher selves - or to something higher than their current level of attainment. Leland Ryken
selfish men views
A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness. Leland Stanford
self journalism flawed
Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody. Lawrence Wright
self wipe fists
I wanted to wipe the grin off his face with a fist. I resisted the urge. Who says I have no self-control? Laurell K. Hamilton
self doubt prophecy
Self-doubt is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
self morality self-righteous
There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality.
selfish stupid sleep
I kissed him on the cheek and left to find Bobby Lee. Him, I trusted to be in the line of fire. But it was more than that: I wasn't sleeping with bobby Lee. I didn't love him. Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun.
self
Knock your bad self out.
self government quiet
We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility. Kwame Nkrumah
self self-destruction destruction
I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction. Mackenzie Phillips
self causes sensitive
Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others. Madame de Stael
selfishness atheism baseness
Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness.
self somewhere-else pathways
This person, this self, this me, finally, was made somewhere else. Everything had come from somewhere else, and it would all go somewhere else. I was nothing but a pathway for the person known as me. Haruki Murakami
self years mind
No matter what you tell me, no matter how legitimate your reasons, I can never just forget about you, I can never push the years we spent together out of my mind. I can't do it because it really happened, they are part of my life, and there is no way I can just erase them. That would be the same as erasing my own self.
self darkness want
A certain kind of shittiness, a certain kind of stagnation, a certain kind of darkness, goes on propagating itself by its own power in its own self-contained cycle. And once it passes a certain point, no one can stop it-even if the person himself wants to stop it.
self feelings different
Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?
self-esteem typewriters deep-breathing
When you're all alone out there, on the end of the typewriter, with each new story a new appraisal by the world of whether you can still get it up or not, arrogance and self-esteem and deep breathing are all you have. It often looks like egomania. I assure you it's the bold coverup of the absolutely terrified. Harlan Ellison
self people church
Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
self fame interest
I do not like to "interest" the public with myself. Gustave Flaubert
self destruction aggressive
Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction. Greg Bear
self elephants empathy
We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior. Graydon Carter