Quotes about self
self personality secret
I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality Joseph Conrad
selfish kids want
I like working with kids because I enjoy seeing the looks on their faces and, it's kind of selfish, I want a future audience. Joshua Bell
selfish thinking events
I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick...maker. Joshua Homme
selfish needs need-you
If you're not ready to consider marriage or you're not truly interested in marrying a specific person, it's selfish and potentially harmful to encourage that person to need you or ask him or her to gratify you emotionally or physically. Joshua Harris
selfish service-to-others behavior
We express true love in obedience to God and service to others- not reckless or selfish behavior- and we choose these behaviors.
selfish mean land
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons. Joseph Franklin Rutherford
self principles human-nature
Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown. Joseph Butler
self hatred self-love
Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.
self doe interest
Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it.
self america paper
You may well ask how I expect to assert my privacy by resorting to the outrageous publicity of being one's actual self on paper. There's a possibility of it working if one chooses the terms, to wit: outshouting image-gimmick America through a quietly desperate search for self. Kate Millett
self judging conscious
Everyone's projecting onto you, or you feel like everyone is judging you. I feel like I'm being judged a lot of the time. You become really self-conscious. Kate Moss
self people ends
People will always show their true selves in the end. Leona Lewis
self levels want
Readers should aspire to what is excellent. They should refuse to read a substitute Bible. They should want a Bible that calls them to their higher selves - or to something higher than their current level of attainment. Leland Ryken
selfish men views
A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness. Leland Stanford
self journalism flawed
Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody. Lawrence Wright
self wipe fists
I wanted to wipe the grin off his face with a fist. I resisted the urge. Who says I have no self-control? Laurell K. Hamilton
self doubt prophecy
Self-doubt is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
self morality self-righteous
There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality.
selfish stupid sleep
I kissed him on the cheek and left to find Bobby Lee. Him, I trusted to be in the line of fire. But it was more than that: I wasn't sleeping with bobby Lee. I didn't love him. Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun.
self
Knock your bad self out.
self government quiet
We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility. Kwame Nkrumah
self rainbow mistress
So rainbow-sided, touch'd with miseries, She seem'd, at once, some penanced lady elf, Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self. John Keats
self speak feels
I have nothing to speak of but my self-and what can I say but what I feel
self mad imagination
How sad it is when a luxurious imagination is obliged in self defense to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity, and riot in things attainable that it may not have leisure to go mad after things that are not.
selfish love-is breathe
My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.
self actors actresses
No, actors go out with actresses as a form of self-flagellation. John Cusack
self important wanted
I never wanted to come off as self-important.
self-esteem style
Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't. Linda Ellerbee
selfish liars lying
Why would the apostles lie?....Liars always lie for selfish reasons. If they lied, what was their motive, what did they get out of it? What they got out of it was misunderstanding, rejection, persecution, torture, and martyrdom. Hardly a list of perks! Peter Kreeft
self fans kind
I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor. Peter Eisenman
self understanding drug
Advocates of psychiatric drugs often claim that the medications improve learning and the ability to benefit from psychotherapy, but the contrary is true. There are no drugs that improve mental function, self-understanding, or human relations. Any drug that affects mental processes does so by impairing them. Peter Breggin
self understanding patterns
It becomes increasingly clear that we won’t be free of self-destructive patterns unless we develop a compassionate understanding of what they are. Pema Chodron
self faults findings
There's something delicious about finding fault with something. And that can be including finding fault with one's self, you know?