Quotes about self
self hateful
Le moi est ha|«s sable. The self is hateful. Blaise Pascal
self world failing
All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self.
self
Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him.
self problem awareness
Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness. Bill Hybels
self awareness self-awareness
Self awareness allows you to self-correct.
self gone levels
When you meet another human being, you meet the physical self, then you meet the psychological self that's behind it, which is their mental conditioning, their patterns of behavior and so on. And then, there is a deeper level to every human being that transcends all of that. I can only sense that in another human being and relate to another human being on that deeper level if I have gone deep enough within myself. Eckhart Tolle
self giving people
Surrender becomes so much easier when you realize the fleeting nature of all experiences and that the world cannot give you anything of lasting value. You then continue to meet people, to be involved in experience and activities, but without the wants and fears of the egoic self. That is to say, you no longer demand that a situation, person, place, or event should satisfy you or make you happy. It's passing and imperfect nature is allowed to be.
self-esteem humility eye
In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.
self names meditation
When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world. Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form.
self purpose facts
If I accept the fact that my relationships are here to make me conscious, instead of happy, then my relationships become a wonderful self mastery tool that keeps realigning me with my higher purpose for living.
self mind trying
Being is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. But don't seek to grasp it with your mind. Don't try to understand it. You can know it only when the mind is still. When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.
self people suffering
After having been lost in the world, suddenly, through the pressure of suffering, the realization comes that the answers may not be found out there in worldly attainment and in the future. That's an important point for many people to reach. That sense of deep crisis-when the world as they have known it, and the sense of self that they have known that is identified with the world, become meaningless.
self effort complaining
Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
self ego purpose
Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep the ego in place.
self want modification
If you want to build a recursively self-improving AI, have it go through a billion sequential self-modifications, become vastly smarter than you, and not die, you've got to work to a pretty precise standard. Eliezer Yudkowsky
self trying self-conscious
I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life. Elie Wiesel
self solitude despair
Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.
self humanity doe
But, it has something to do with having belief in a human future and what that human future is. What is the future of humanity? How does this whole experiment not self-destruct with the environment and everything else going on? Brit Marling
self-esteem issues people
So many people have asked me how I could possibly be a role model and dress like a tramp and get implants... all I have to say is that self-esteem is how you look at yourself and I feel good enough about myself so wear that kind of clothing... the breast implant issue has nothing to do with that... Britney Spears
self kind delusion
That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion. Brandon Sanderson
self logic made
You are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic.
self-confidence self
I had a lot of self-confidence. Bowie Kuhn
self departure modesty
My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers. Arthur Conan Doyle
self race people
Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world. Archibald MacLeish
self advertising
A self-advertising writer is always a self-extinguished writer.
self-esteem broken trying
Don't try to fix me, I'm not broken... Ben Moody
self body sometimes
A self needed to spill out sometimes, a body should show evidence of what the hell went on inside it. Ben Marcus
self vision world
Let your vision be world embracing rather than confined to your own self.
self rejection records
I like to joke that I probably hold the world record for rejection letters. Yes, the truth is that I was fed up of being rejected repeatedly, and self-publicatio n was an act of defiance at traditional publishing. But life works in strange ways. Ashwin Sanghi
self people democracy
You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people. Bashar al-Assad
self foundation virtue
self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue. Baruch Spinoza
selfish love-is self-love
But love is something that has to be as selfish as it is unselfish. You can't make yourself love someone because you feel like you should. Just wanting to love someone isn't enough. Aprilynne Pike
self-esteem self-worth building-up
Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth. Arabella Weir