Quotes about self
self creative ordinary
Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is found in the life of God itself. They do not do this because it sounds edifying, but because this is the way that human nature seems to work. We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind. Karen Armstrong
self lazy flesh
The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered. Joyce Meyer
self water discipline
God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!
self years self-destructive
I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore. Karen O
self found stills
I still haven't found the place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true self, either. Karen Joy Fowler
self self-love infancy
We cannot love others as others unless we possess suficient self-love, a love we learn from being loved in infancy. Judith Viorst
self soul guilt
Control cannot be called conscience until we are able to take it inside us and make it our own, until--in spite of the fact that the wrongs we have done or imagined will never be punished or known--we nonetheless feel that the clutch in the stomach, that chill upon the soul, that self-inflicted misery called guilt.
self people criticism
You have to have a thick enough skin to cope with the criticism. I'm very self-critical and I have a lot of friends that I trust who are film directors and writers and people in my profession. George Lucas
self perfection demand
I am sometimes almost terrified at the scope of the demands made upon me, at the perfection of the self-abandonment required of me; yet outside of such absoluteness can be no salvation. George MacDonald
self denial next
Alas! this time is never the time for self-denial, it is always the next time. Abstinence is so much more pleasant to contemplate upon the other side of indulgence.
self criticism indirect
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting. Emmet Fox
self narcissistic flip
I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it... It is unrequited self-love. Emily Levine
self light ability
Unconsciousness of self is not so much unselfishness as it is the mental ability to extinguish all thought of one's self - exactly as one turns out the light. Emily Post
self consideration manners
Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.
self heaven earth
The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth. Emanuel Swedenborg
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 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 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