Quotes about self
selfishness world would-be
Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with. Josh Billings
self-esteem self-respect comedy
No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
selfish heart people
Selfish people, with no heart to speak of, have the best time of it.
self ideas deception
An ideology is a complex of ideas or notions which represents itself to the thinker as an absolute truth for the interpretation of the world and his situation within it; it leads the thinker to accomplish an act of self-deception for the purpose of justification, obfuscation and evasion in some sense or other to his advantage. Karl Jaspers
self opposites admiration
Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise. Karl Barth
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
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 rainbow mistress
So rainbow-sided, touch'd with miseries, She seem'd, at once, some penanced lady elf, Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self. John Keats
self speak feels
I have nothing to speak of but my self-and what can I say but what I feel