Quotes about self
selfish people leaving
You don't make me feel like you used to. That's why I'm leaving That's why people leave each other They come to their senses and get selfish again. Henry Rollins
self sometimes knows
Sometimes you can get so far in yourself that you don't know who you are.
self listening records
I have been listening to the Stooges' self-titled first album for well over half my life, and it remains one of the most exciting and essential records I have ever had the good fortune to come into contact with.
self office long
If Washington were President now, he would have to learn our ways or lose his next election. Only fools and theorists imagine that our society can be handled with gloves or long poles. One must make one's self a part of it. If virtue won't answer our purpose, we must use vice, or our opponents will put us out of office, and this was as true in Washington's day as it is now, and always will be. Henry Adams
self
Nothing can be so bad as to be displeased with one's self ... Helen Hunt Jackson
selfish heart people
Marriage takes your whole heart; selfish people can't pull it off. Helen Hunt
self theatre actors
Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness. Helen Hayes
self-esteem jealous winning
Neither gender is routinely more jealous - although women are more willing to work to win back a lover, while men tend to flaunt their money and status and are more likely to walk out to protect their self-esteem or save face. Helen Fisher
self half poverty
Self-pity is the worst poverty. When a person says, 'I am...' with pity, before he has said anything more he has diminished himself to half of what he is; and what is said further, diminishes him totally; nothing more of him is left afterwards. Hazrat Inayat Khan
self care consciousness
Once you have given up your limited self willingly to the Unlimited, you will rejoice so much in that consciousness that you will not care to be small again.
self masters
He that is master of himself will soon be master of others.
self people training
Pedagogy is not about training, it is about critically educating people to be self reflective, capable of critically address their relationship with others and with the larger world. Pedagogy in this sense provides not only important critical and intellectual competencies; it also enables people to intervene critically in the world. Henry Giroux
selfish men medicine
Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would be great enough in any case, but they are multiplied a thousandfold by a factor that is insignificant in, say, physics, mathematics or medicine - the special pleading of selfish interests. Henry Hazlitt
self skills discipline
Discipline is a difficult word for most of us. It conjures up images of somebody standing over you with a stick, telling you that you're wrong. But self-discipline is different. It's the skill of seeing through the hollow shouting of your own impulses and piercing their secret. Henepola Gunaratana
self-esteem esteem ifs
If I am not I, who will be? Henry David Thoreau
self looks backwards
It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.
self world realizing
Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
selfish thinking want
I do not think it is selfish to want to donate a kidney "only" to family members. Mallory Ortberg
selfish exercise earth
In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth. Malcolm Muggeridge
self people moral
Muhammad teaches us the knowledge of our own selves, and of our own people. He cleans us up-morally, mentally and spiritually Malcolm X
self defense violence
I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
self welfare should
Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow labourers and not be self-seeking. Mahatma Gandhi
self evil hatred
Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of nonresistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in selfsuffering.
self belief certain
It is beyond my power to induce in you a belief in God. There are certain things which are self proved and certain which are not proved at all.
self suffering way
Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering.
self demand precedence
Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self.
self government evil
It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama to give to his devotees like Bibhishana a free charter of irrevocable self-government.
selfish sake earning
Journalism should never be prostituted for selfish ends or for the sake of merely earning a livelihood or, worse still, for amassing money.
self civilization patient
This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.
self would-be obedience
Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.
self done violence
Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.
self-assessment
It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves.
self religion deception
To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.