Quotes about self
self drug sides
I wasn't involved in anything. I wasn't out - you know, I know I wasn't in ACT UP. I wasn't with Larry Kramer. I wasn't by his side. I wasn't saying what I should do, because, by all accounts, I was a drug addict and an alcoholic. And I was living in a complete bubble of self-absorption. Elton John
self years generosity
There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you've grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
self people blind
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
self secret half
The secret of pleasing in conversation is not to explain too much everything; to say them half and leave a little for divination is a mark of the good opinion we have of others, and nothing flatters their self-love more.
self feel-good proportion
We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.
self enemy deception
We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be being treated like that by our own selves.
self disposition interest
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
self advice profit
It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
self doe born
Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.
self vanity affliction
Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them.
self praise interest
We do not like to praise, and seldom praise anyone without self-interest.
self taste bears
Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.
self vices virtue
Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.
self observation one-time
Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another.
self joy erotic
Self-consciousness is the destroyer of erotic joy. Ian Mcewan
self stories impatience
He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.
self guilt details
How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime.
self expression giving
There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they've ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the merely collaborative or technically proficient, when their expression becomes as easy and graceful as friendship or love. This is when they give us a glimpse of what we might be, of our best selves, and of an impossible world in which you give everything to others, but lose nothing of yourself.
selfish people self-centered
It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people. Hugh Hefner
self
There can be no place for self entirely Horatio Nelson
self errors rejoice
No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth. Horace Mann
self stereotype purity
We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and a stereotype in itself: women have to be pure, women are not concerned about money. Gloria Steinem
self issues people
If you look at the public opinion polls even, support for all the issues, people who self-identify as feminists are as least as many as those who self-identify as Republicans.
self hatred needs
Self-hatred leads to the need either to dominate or to be dominated.
self-esteem blessing serious
Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.
self-esteem democracy bases
Self-esteem is the basis of any democracy.
self-esteem luxury grew
I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about "self-esteem" would have seemed like a luxury.
self-esteem passion finding-yourself
Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.
self logic justified
Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.
self brave greek
The Indian gods are imposing, the Greek gods are not. Indeed they are not brave, not self-controlled, they have no manners, they are not gentlemen and ladies. Gerard Manley Hopkins
self degrees individualism
When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness.
self giving giver
Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.
self law foundation
The modern state appeals to morality, to religion, and to natural law as the ideological foundation of its existence. At the same time it is prepared to infringe any or all of these in the interest of self-preservation. J. M. Coetzee