Quotes about self
self survival together
They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate. Emergencies gave you a shape and a plot to take part in, while death was no story at all. It left you nothing. Ann Brashares
self years wings
What's curious about the left's current obsession with Timothy McVeigh is that it proves that - despite a frantic search for 15 years - liberals have come across no better evidence of burgeoning "right-wing extremist" violence than a drug-taking, self-described "agnostic" who was thrown out of the Michigan Militia and who proclaimed, "Science is my religion." That sounds more like Bill Maher than Rush Limbaugh. Ann Coulter
self-esteem insecure essence
Just as we're always told that schoolyard bullies are actually deeply insecure, liberals rationalize their own ferocious behavior by claiming to have been wounded somehow. What about the little guy our poor, insecure bully is beating the living daylights out of? How's his self-esteem coming along? That is the essence of liberals: They viciously attack everyone else, while wailing that they are the victims.
self differences america
Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant.
self rights brave
Freedom is not an abstaction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more is not enough either. Having less, being less, empoverished in freedom and rights, women then invariably have less self-respect: less self-respect than any human being needs to live a brave and honest life. Andrea Dworkin
self expression feminist
On the Left, on the Right, in the Middle; Authors, statesmen, thieves; so-called humanists and self-declared fascists; the adventurous and the contemplative, in every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.
self-confidence thinking voice
I don't have an extraordinary degree of self-confidence, but I know the gift I have been given from God and I try to share it with as many people as possible. Having a great voice is not a merit. I don't think it is a merit. Andrea Bocelli
self-worth self lasts
And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote. Amy Winehouse
self-esteem helping esteem
The gods help them who help themselves. Aesop
self-worth ivy people
People don't resent having nothing nearly as much as too little.- Ivy Crompton A.J. Burnett
self improvement obsession
I'm addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there's so damn much about myself to improve. A. J. Jacobs
self upper-class towns
I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of the things he liked was that he owned it. A. N. Wilson
self return plenitude
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. A. R. Ammons
self moral-beliefs looks
I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred. A. S. Byatt
self trying revealing
I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
selfish mean marketing
I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work! Abbas Kiarostami
self stories awareness
I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories. A. E. van Vogt
self numbness despair
Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair. Adrienne Rich
selfish people done
You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love. Agatha Christie
self-esteem esteem agree
You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.
self accompany-us world
One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave - our own self. Get on good terms with that companion - learn to live with yourself.
selfish thinking
I think in the old music, everything was so competitive. It was all about - very selfish in a lot of ways. Adrian Grenier
selfish indulge-in giving
It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.
self humanity liberty
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow citizens. Adam Smith
self needs opinion
I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating. Adam Levine
self-confidence may acne
Acne may be good at destroying self-confidence, but Proactiv+ is good at destroying acne.
self taught classical-music
I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background. Adam Jones
self roots discipline
Self-respect is the root of discipline Abraham Joshua Heschel
self independence being-human
Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
self light darkness
God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
self people
Self-actualizing people must be what they can be. Abraham Maslow
self healthy feelings
My feeling is that the concept of creativeness and the concept of the healthy, self actualizing, fully human person seem to be coming closer and closer together, and may perhaps turn out to be the same thing
self-esteem psychological-health care
No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself.