Quotes about self
self hell born
It's a hell of a thing to be born, and if you're born you're at least entitled to your own self. Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
self
…it is so much better to work for others than for one's self alone. Louisa May Alcott
self years profound
If there is one thing I’ve learned in my years on this planet, it’s that the happiest and most fulfilled people I’ve known are those who devoted themselves to something bigger and more profound than merely their own self interest. John Glenn
self ruins
How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old? John Fowles
self age adulthood
Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
self rights people
I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as a self-governing people to hear everything relevant. John F. Kennedy
self justice presidential
Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups. They have raised wages, shortened hours, and provided supplemental benefits. Through collective bargaining and grievance procedures, they have brought justice and democracy to the shop floor.
self manhattan brooklyn
Apparently Brooklyn needn't always push itself to be something else, something conscious and anxious, something pointed toward Manhattan.... Brooklyn might sometimes also be pleased, as here on Flatbush, to be its grubby, enduring self. Jonathan Lethem
self self-pity pity
But the day I can't shrug off a twinge of self-pity, is the day I'm washed up for keeps.
self emotion transcendence
Awe is the emotion of self-transcendence. Jonathan Haidt
selfish party thinking
Liberals have difficulty understanding the Tea Party because they think it is a bunch of selfish racists. But I think the Tea Party is driven in large part by concerns about fairness.
self greek soul
Here was a torture that Greek inventors of the Feast and the Stone had omitted from their Hades: the Blanket of Self-Deception. A lovely warm blanket as far as it covered the soul in torment, but it never quite covered everything. Jonathan Franzen
self different kind
So, what, you got cigarette burns, too?" Gitanes said. Chip showed his palm, "It's nothing." "Self-inflicted. You pathetic American." "Different kind of prison" Chip said.
self people ends
It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.
selfishness naked world
If you seek in the spirit of selfishness, to grasp all as your own, you shall lose all, and be driven out of the world, at last, naked and forlorn, to everlasting poverty and contempt. Jonathan Edwards
self decree should
Whether God has decreed all things that ever come to pass or not, all that own the being of a God, own that He knows all things beforehand. Now, it is self-evident that if He knows all things beforehand, He either doth approve of them or doth not approve of them; that is, He either is willing they should be, or He is not willing they should be. But to will that they should be is to decree them.
self examination action
Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action
self hatred self-hatred
I promote my own self-hatred. Jonathan Ames
self people perception
I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.
self epidemics entrepreneur
It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling. Jonas Salk
self expression quality
I compose most of my tweets with care, as if they were aphorisms - they are not usually dashed-off. Sometimes I'm surprised by the high, poetic quality of Twitter - it lends itself to a surreal sort of self-expression. Joyce Carol Oates
selfish evil behavior
Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior.
self speech roaming
Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming garrulousness of ordinary speech is usually corrected when it's transcribed into written prose.
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?
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 clothes fit
You don't feel as self-conscious if your clothes fit. Rachael Ray
selfish dark survival
Survival," I said softly. "It's selfish, and it's dark, and we've always been a species willing to do anything to satisfy our needs. Individuals have morals. Mobs have appetites. Rachel Caine