Quotes about self
self defense self-defense
I read in self-defense. Woody Allen
self tree defense
A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.
self qualms-about water
Comics speak, without qualm or sophistication, to the innermost ears of the wishful self. The response is like that of a thirsty traveler who suddenly finds water in the desert - he drinks to satiation. William Moulton Marston
selfish suffering add
God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering. William Nicholson
selfish here-i-am people
Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn't necessarily want us to be happy. He wants us to be lovable. Worthy of love. Able to be loved by Him. We don't start off being all that lovable, if we're honest. What makes people hard to love? Isn't it what is commonly called selfishness? Selfish people are hard to love because so little love comes out of them.
self enemy needs
Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.
self people doubt
It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt. William J. Clinton
self years law
In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace as recommended by the commission headed by former congresswoman Barbara Jordan. We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.
self years law
It is wrong, and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws that we have seen...in recent years. There is too much of it, and we must do much more to stop it." "The fact is that employer sanctions have been in the law...since 1986 but no prior administration has made a serious attempt to enforce them.
self brain atoms
The self-same atoms which, chaotically dispersed, made the nebula, now, jammed and temporarily caught in peculiar positions, form our brains; and the 'evolution' of brains, if understood, would be simply the account of how the atoms came to be so caught and jammed. William James
self
You can't out-perform your self-image.
self
Choose a self and stand by it.
self mind peculiar
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
self inferiority habit
We all have a lifelong habit of inferiority to our full self..."
self feelings world
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
self-esteem congratulations plus
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
self enemy age
That was Youth with its reckless exuberance when all things were possible pursued by Age where we are now, looking back at what we destroyed, what we tore away from that self who could do more, and its work that's become my enemy because that's what I can tell you about, that Youth who could do anything. William Gaddis
self vanity littles
Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which it loves, by showing how little is deserved by others. William Gilmore Simms
self giving meaning-of-life
To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self. Will Durant
self savages reptiles
In them was not the savage blankness of the reptile species. Instead there was something far worse - burning, unquenchable rage mixed with the self-mocking irony of great intelligence. Whitley Strieber
self google courses
Everyone self-Googles. And, I have, of course, the Google alert. Sarah Silverman
selfish way
You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way Sarah Brightman
self self-respect easy
You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation. Sarah Addison Allen
selfish insecure scared
We're connected, as women. It's like a spiderweb. If one part of that web vibrates, if there's trouble, we all know it, but most of the time we're just too scared, or selfish, or insecure to help. But if we don't help each other, who will?
self focus flow
Any self-prompt that reminds you to focus on flow not ebb, contributes to your greater sense of abundance. (53) Sarah Ban Breathnach
selfish sleep creative
Deliberately seeking solitude-quality time spent away from family and friends-may seem selfish. It is not. Solitude is as necessary for our creative spirits to develop and flourish as are sleep and food for our bodies to survive.
self soul fleeing
Self-loathing is the silent hemorrhaging of the soul. You don't feel or see the life force fleeing until it's not longer there, and then, of course, it's too late.
self tenacity daring
It takes tenacity and daring to travel the darkest interior of one's self.
self soul stressed
Stressed souls need the reassuring rhythm of self-nurturing rituals.
self empowering empowerment
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.
selfish progress decay
National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice. Samuel Smiles
self giving imagination
The imagination ... that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were) the flux of the senses by the permanence and self-circling energies of the reason, gives birth to a system of symbols, harmonious in themselves, and consubstantial with the truths of which they are the conductors. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
self enthusiasm swallowing
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?