Quotes about self
self abuse care
Don't abuse yourself or withhold self-love or self-care. Bryant H. McGill
self-esteem identity criticism
Criticism is no threat to your self-esteem or identity, but rather informs you.
self wings promise
Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.
self plot purpose
Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.
self peaceful keep-smiling
The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.
self wages working-conditions
The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they have paid us in self-respect and human dignity. Cesar Chavez
self justice optimism
The road to social justice for the farm worker is the road of unionization. Our cause, our strike against table grapes and our international boycott are all founded upon our deep conviction that the form of collective self-help, which is unionization, holds far more hope for the farm worker than any other single approach, whether public or private. This conviction is what brings spirit, high hope and optimism to everything we do.
self-esteem quality watches
We should praise the qualities we would like to see in others, declare that others possess them already, and then watch how quickly these persons will respond. Catherine Ponder
selfish rain ocean
Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return. All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn’t he, by wanting her to love him in return? He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain? Alan Lightman
self rights government
Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else. Alan Dershowitz
self important done
It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I've ever done, so it's a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit. Al Yankovic
self-esteem team hockey
I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
self use pumps
I'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
self ideas risk
We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our buildings to hold us, like a kind of psychological mould, to a helpful vision of ourselves. We arrange around us material forms which communicate to us what we need — but are at constant risk of forgetting what we need — within. We turn to wallpaper, benches, paintings and streets to staunch the disappearance of our true selves. Alain de Botton
self imagination identity
By travelling across frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to to exchange local prejudices and the self division they induced for less constraining identities as citizens of the world.
self years careers
Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.
self giving fame
Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance. Al Goldstein
self people doubt
Sometimes if I tell people, 'I'm afraid that I'm really a fraud,' or 'I have a lot of self-doubt,' they go, 'Oh, no, you're kidding.' I go, 'No, I'm really honest.' Al Franken
self doe
I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
self doubt may
Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in. Aimee Mullins
self texture way
There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The work of essayists is vital precisely because it permits and encourages self-knowledge in a way that is less indirect than fiction, more open and speculative. Charles J. Shields
self hands guy
I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pomposity. Starting when I was 30, I somehow gave off an impression at an audition that had them mentally put me in a three-piece suit or put an attache case in my hand. If there was a stiff-guy part, the director would brighten up when I came in. Charles Kimbrough
self tree variation
If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity. Charles Jencks
selfish book titles
Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with the Thatcherite politics of the time. It should actually be the 'altruistic gene,' but he'd never have sold as many books with a title like that.
self long miracle
Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh. Charles Kingsley
selfish selfishness actors
You have to be selfish to be an actor. Charles Dance
self infinite capacity
We humans, you see, have an infinite capacity for self-rationalization. Charles Colson
self religion chance
The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for the existence of God. Charles Darwin
self development truest
The truest success is but the development of self. Charles Atlas
self mind belief
Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it. Alanis Morissette
self surfing athletic
I've been doing a lot of different cross-training and kickboxing and Capoeira and kite surfing, and I've just really been back to what I consider my original athletic self.
self people hatred
Fame is hollow. It amplifies what is there. If there is any self-doubt, or hatred, or lack of ability to connect with people, fame will magnify it.
self soul looks
When malice has reason on its side, it looks forth bravely, and displays that reason in all its luster. When austerity and self-denial have not realized true happiness, and the soul returns to the dictates of nature, the reaction is fearfully extravagant. Blaise Pascal