Quotes about self
selfish thinking people
You can't expect to draw people into your life who are kind, confident, and generous if you're thinking and acting in cruel, weak, and selfish ways. You must be what it is that you're seeking- that is, you need to put forth what you want to attract. Wayne Dyer
self practice two
You practice forgiveness for two reasons: to let others know that you no longer wish to be in a state of hostility with them and to free yourself from the self-defeating energy of resentment. Send love in some form to those you feel have wronged you and notice how much better you feel.
self-worth things-in-life wells
I am a human being, not a human doing. Don't equate your self-worth with how well you do things in life. You aren't what you do. If you are what you do, then when you don't . . , you aren't.
self-esteem believe successful
You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being - not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money - but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.
self connections encounters
When you meet anyone, treat the event as a holy encounter. It's through others that we either find or love our self. For you see, nothing is accomplished without others. When you eliminate the concept of separation from your thoughts and your behavior, you begin to feel your connection to everything and everyone.
self-love and-love overcoming
Failure is a judgment, an opinion. It stems from your fears, which can be eliminated by love-love for yourself, love for what you do, love for others, and love for your planet.
self forgiving shame
Be gentle and forgiving with yourself, abandon any and all shame, and refuse to engage in any self-repudiation.
self-esteem approval acquisition
Self-esteem comes from the self, not from acquisitions and approval.
self long
As long as I live I shall always be My Self - and no other, Just me. Walter de La Mare
self interest benevolence
Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence. Walter Bagehot
self order world
Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to redeem them Walter Benjamin
self literature may
A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand. Virginia Woolf
self sick want
I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.
self perception consciousness
Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
self goes-on
A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
self breathing long
For a moment the feeling crept over me that my work, my vision, is going to destroy me, and for a fleeting moment I let myself take a long, hard look at myself, something I would not otherwise do--out of instinct, on principle, out of self-preservation--look at myself with objective curiosity to see whether my vision has not destroyed me already. I found it comforting to note that I was still breathing. Werner Herzog
self servant justification
Self-justification is a treacherous servant.
self looks knows
Do we know what we look like? Not really. Walker Evans
self boredom bored
Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself. Walker Percy
self peculiar cosmos
One of the peculiar ironies of being a human self in the Cosmos: A stranger approaching you in the street will in a second's glance see you whole, size you up, place you in a way in which you cannot and never will, even though you have spent a lifetime with yourself, live in the Century of the Self, and therefore ought to know yourself best of all.
self class people
The healthy spirit of self-help created among working people would, more than any other measure, serve to raise them as a class; and this, not by pulling down others, but by levelling them up to a higher and still advancing standard of religion, intelligence, and virtue. Samuel Smiles
self roots growth
The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigour and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates
self humanity mind
What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself. Samuel Richardson
self accusation applause
Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause.
self literature waste
I have nothing but wastes and wilds of self-translation before me for many miserable months to come. Samuel Beckett
self dollars roles
The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington's readiness to mix US commercial interests with its self-appointed role as global protector. William Greider
self mind statistics
Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education. William Godwin
self shame mask
The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness. William Golding
selfish heart men
God does not choose a person for ease and comfort and selfish joy but for a task that will take all that head and heart and hand can bring to it. God chooses a man in order to use him. William Barclay
self-esteem character mirrors
Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future. William Arthur Ward
self years genius
Hitler was undoubtedly a genius but he lacked self-control. He recognized no limits. Otherwise the thousand-year Reich would have lasted more than twelve years. Wilhelm Frick
self class two
I myself have not met a self-confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing to admit, like coming from the middle class or the Middle West, those two gloomy seedbeds of talent), yet hardly a day passes that I don't read another attack on the "typical liberal" - as it might be announcing a pest of dinosaurs or a plague of unicorns. Wilfrid Sheed
self hands trying
We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self. Wavy Gravy