Quotes about self
self anxiety despair
The will to power is the will to ecstasy is the will to surrender is the will to submit and, in extremis, to die. Or to put it another way, the rage to attain a freedom and happiness one's psyche cannot accept creates enormous anxiety and ends in self-punishing despair. Ellen Willis
self expression erotic
To say that historical conditions made personal life possible, and with it the self-consciousness that allowed psychoanalysis to emerge, is to tell half the story: one also has to consider that the erotic impulse, ever pressing for satisfaction, had something to do with making the history that encouraged its expression.
self needs allies
Obamas foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront. Elliott Abrams
self firsts opinion
[Salvation] is a curious process of divine burglary. The first thing to be wrested from one by a God who said 'Thou shalt not steal' is one's good opinion of one's self. Elizabeth Goudge
self soul detachment
Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.
self-esteem believe self-confidence
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues. Elizabeth Gaskell
self finals infatuation
You have now reached infatuation’s final destination—the complete and merciless devaluation of self. Elizabeth Gilbert
selfish people selfishness
Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.
self-esteem thinking resentment
We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.
selfish thinking people
You are still young, so you think only of your own self. You do not notice the tribulations that occur all around you, to other people. Do not protest; it is true. I am not condemning you. I was as selfish as you, when I was your age. It is the custom of the young to be selfish... But someday you will understand that nobody passes through this world without suffering-no matter what you think of them and their supposed good fortune.
self-worth once-upon-a-time never-forget
Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
self mindfulness glorious
By removing that which is petty and self-seeking, we bring forth all that is glorious and mindful of the whole. Eknath Easwaran
self work-out effort
It is not action or effort that we must surrender; it is self-will, and this is terribly difficult. You must do your best constantly, yet never allow yourself to become involved in whether things work out the way you want.
self shining ego
Do not feed your ego and your problems, with your attention. ...Slowly, surely, the ego will lose weight, until one fine day it will be nothing but a thin ghost of its former self. You will be able to see right through it, to the divine presence that shines in each of us.
self iowa calling
A major Iowa newspaper published an op-ed against Trump calling him a 'self-absorbed, wholly unqualified feckless blowhard.' Or as Trump put it, 'You forgot very rich ... I'm a very rich, self-absorbed, wholly unqualified feckless blowhard. Very, very rich.' Jimmy Fallon
self pay injustice
Shake off the self-pity, shake off the defeat and get ready for God to do something new. He is going to pay you back for every injustice. Joel Osteen
self helping positive-change
Self-love helps me make positive changes easily Louise Hay
self-esteem love-yourself loving-yourself
If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.
self-love messages body
I listen with love to my body's messages.
self-esteem heart planets
There is so much love in your heart that you could heal the planet.
self facts characteristics
It is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts, Louis Althusser
selfish nice reading
This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication. Logan Pearsall Smith
self mirrors people
People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.
selfish care sound
I do enjoy my own company. I cannot imagine anybody entertaining me more than I do. If it sounds selfish, I don't care. I made it a religion almost. Manolo Blahnik
self tunes looks
I don't like to be my own audience, I find that being my own audience, being in the audience, makes me self-conscious, basically. So I tune in sometimes, with the sound off, to check it out and I back up to it. In the future I will look at it when some time has passed. Madeline Kahn
self crucible mastery
Only in the crucible of self-mastery can freedom be smelted Tariq Ramadan
self-confidence insecurity body
National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.
self process reconciliation
The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
self hands enemy
[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry. Ta-Nehisi Coates
self community ironic
Humans also tend to find community to be pleasurable, and within the boundaries of community relationships, words - often ironic and self-deprecating - are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others.
self-confidence opportunity names
Nobody ever died of discomfort, yet living in the name of comfort has killed more ideas, more opportunities, more actions, and more growth than everything else combined. Comfort kills! T. Harv Eker
self-esteem home school
There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them. T. D. Jakes
self mind rooms
There is no room for God in a mind that's full of self.